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Snow Angel

I absolutely love this little hat of Lydia's. I got some cute pictures of her wearing it this weekend and I wanted to share my favorite ones. There a bunch more that you can see on our Photobucket.

Also, just an update on Ryan. His job at Marathon Oil Company FINALLY posted this morning!! They told us it wouldn't be up until Monday or Tuesday of next week so we were thrilled that it got posted early. He formally applied for the position today online and hopefully he will hear from someone tomorrow and be able to start by Monday.

New Carpet

We got our new carpet installed yesterday. I am so happy with it! The arrived around 10am and were done at 4pm. Ryan and I spent most of the afternoon and evening putting the house back together. It is so soft and feels great under your feet. We noticed though that the closet doors are kind of difficult to open now since the carpet and pad are so much thicker than the old stuff. We had planned on getting new doors anyway though so we will just have to deal with that for the time being. I had wanted to take before and afters but after uploading my camera I see that I must have forgot to take a picture of the living room before. I did get one of the office. Anyway, I know most of you are aware of the condition of our old carpet and what it looked like. Here are the pictures! The first picture is the before of the office, the last two are of the new carpet.

Festival of Trees

Ryan, Lydia, my sister in law Christine and I all visited the Festival of Trees on Sunday afternoon. There wasn't quite as many trees as I expected but they did have some really pretty ones. Here are some pictures.

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Lydia's Tree

We put up Lydia's tree in her room this week. She really loved the lights. Just thought I would share some pictures.

UPDATE: We will be getting our new carpet installed on Monday morning. We will be moving all our furniture out of the office and living room this weekend to get ready for that on Monday. We are excited to finally be getting the new carpet installed! I will be sure to post before and after pictures after it's all done. :)

Kisses

I just had to share this cute story. Last night Lydia was sitting on my lap and I was giving her little kisses on her lips. I looked over to Ryan to smile and then I turned back to look at Lydia and she swooped right in and gave me a big smacker right on my lips. Ryan just busted out laughing! It was so funny and so sweet. I look forward to lots more kisses from my baby girl now that she knows how. :)

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Such a Big Girl!

This morning I was on the computer in my office and Lydia was on the floor next to me crawling around. I looked down at her and noticed that she was suddenly sitting right next to my chair on the floor! She must have maneuvered herself from a crawl into a sitting position (she has never done that before). I told her she was a big girl and then she reached around and grabbed the seat part of my chair and pulled herself up to a stand! She has pulled herself up with my help before but she has never used an object to pull herself up with. What a big girl!!

New Video & Updates

We got a new video of Lydia this morning. I thought it was pretty cute so I wanted to share it with everyone. We are having a good week. Ryan is still out of work at the moment but is doing some electrical work for my Grandpa at their R.V. park this week. He is suppose to hear from Marathon Oil by tomorrow about the job but the supervisor at Marathon said if they wouldn't be able to hire him by the end of the week they would have him work for DRG temporarily until they are ready for him to start the new position at Marathon. It has been 3 weeks since he was let go.

Ryan's sister Rachael is 20 weeks pregnant this week and found out today that they will be having a girl. She says her name will be Emma Leigh. She is currently going to Spearfish for all her prenatal appointments and had the 4D ultrasound there today. She was able to get a video of it, how exciting! Her husband Chris' 26th birthday party is this Friday so when we go over to the Becker's house for that we will watch the video too. I am sure it will bring back lots of memories for me. It's hard to believe that I was pregnant this time last year.

I have been keeping up with my diet and exercise since last Monday and have lost 6 lbs so far. I am determined to stick with it this time and am excited to see the numbers go down each day on the scale. I have to get rid of this baby weight once and for all!

A couple of our neighbors have Christmas lights up already! I am getting excited about Christmas this year. It will be so special now that we have Lydia. I decided that our first holiday tradition is going to be that on Christmas Eve our family will all wear matching Christmas pajamas. I found some really cute affordable ones at childrensplace.com. I think it will be really fun and the pictures will be so cute. It looks like Seth & Hannah will probably be able to come out for Christmas this year. We are so excited about that. I cannot wait to see my nephew Ian again and my 4 month old niece Noel for the first time. They will be meeting Lydia for the first time too. We are going to be drawing names this weekend with the Becker's for Christmas gifts but just for the adults. I am currently working on my Christmas gifts for my side of the family.

Planning Lydia's Party

I have started to think about Lydia's first birthday. It's hard to believe that it is just 3 months away now! I have known for awhile that I wanted to do a little princess type theme so I went online to celebrateexpress.com I believe that is where my mom used to get us kids party stuff (they had the neatest stuff!). Right on the front page of the site they had a link for 1st Birthdays and there it was! The cutest Lil' Princess 1st Birthday theme ever. I am not sure what day we will be having it on yet because I have to check my Dad's schedule with the Becker's schedule to see what will work for both. I am pretty sure we will be having it at Grandma & Grandpa Becker's house. I wanted to be able to have it at a place we could decorate how we wanted, bring whatever food we wanted and stay as long as we like. It's kind of hard to find that here because there aren't many places to have parties except for restaurants which usually have stipulations and it will only be about 12 people so I wouldn't need to rent a big place. I just need to think of some fun games that the adults would like to play and what kind of foods to serve. I'm thinking we will just do cake, ice cream, punch and some snacks. I can't believe my little baby will be turning one soon; that will surely be a bittersweet moment for me..

Fun With Our Friends

We had a great Saturday night with our friends Lee Ann & Michael, and their son Joshua. We had pizza, watched Kung Fo Panda and played Rock Band in between visiting, it was a lot of fun! We look forward to the next time we can get together with them. I got some fun pictures from the evening to share with everyone.

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Picture Tag

My friend Lee Ann tagged me for picture tag so here it is!

The sixth picture in the sixth folder of my pictures. Me at 37 weeks pregnant with Lydia. (One week before birth)

New Toys

Kids Mart had a 20% off sale today so Ryan, Lydia & I went down to see if they had anything Lydia would like. We found some really fun things and took a video of her first reaction to them.

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