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Monday, January 3, 2011
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
8 Months & Updates
Jack is 8 months old today! He is 15lb 14.5 oz & 27" Tall. He is now crawling, going from a crawl to a sit & pulling himself to a stand on furniture. All of that happened in one week, last week! He is now into EVERYTHING!! Constantly on the go, exploring the house. Still only his two bottom front teeth and no signs of any others yet. He is in size 9 month clothes and size 2-3 shoes. Right now he is fighting off a little bit of a cold. I hope it doesn't get any more than a runny nose which is what it is now. Lydia thew up 3 times last night, poor girl. Both of them have a very slight fever. Lydia seems to be better today she has kept food and drink down all day so far and is in good spirits. This is the first time she has ever been sick throwing up. She has only had 2 colds so far since birth but never a stomach illness. I think it scared her a little. We have a ton of activities planned this weekend so I am hoping Ryan & I don't get it and the kids are well by then. I would hate to not make it to all our parties and activities. But I guess we will just have to wait and see how everyone is on Friday.
Ryan's job has finally rolled over with the new company. So he is now an employee of CEP/ High Plains Oil & Gas. Things are going well with that so far.
Our new home at 801 Sako Drive is clicking right a long. It had a slow start but things seem to be coming together quickly now. The house is almost finished being framed. It is nice to see kind of what the finished project will look like now. It was hard to picture the house and the size of the yard with just bare land but now that the house is there, you can tell where things will be. The yard is a very nice size, not much in the back but two large side yards which will be fenced. I believe the closing date is still set for end of February sometime.
We have not sold our home on Laurel yet. We have 2 interested parties right now who have both said they are considering putting an offer on the home. Those were last week, I am not anticipating any offers or anything serious until after Christmas but I am really hoping one of the two will pull through. I believe our realtor wants to put our home on an open house one more time before Christmas. With all the pretty lights and decorations up. I still have to get with her to see when that will be, I am thinking maybe Monday evening, the 20th. Ryan did a wonderful job of putting lights and decorations on the front of the home. It looks really great from the street.
Lydia is doing well besides being sick this week. She had a fun day yesterday with Grandma, shopping, wrapping & decorating a gingerbread train. It's hard to believe my baby girl will be 3 in just a few months. She has told me that she wants a Strawberry Shortcake birthday party, so I think I will plan on that unless she changes her mind in the next month. I'm not sure what we will do or where we will have it. I wonder if we will be in our new house by then or in the middle of moving. She also has 2 cousins with birthdays the same week so we will have to see what works with everyone schedule.
Lydia loves to play pretend and has such a great imagination. She is talking really well and it's so cute when she rambles in long sentences about funny things she is thinking about. A few days ago I asked her if she would put lotion on my back for me and she was so excited to help mama! She just kept rubbing and rubbing, I asked her at least 3 times if she was done and she would say 'no, more lotion please' - I think that girl rubbed her mama's back for at least 20 minutes! Then while she was rubbing my back she was telling me about how we should go to the beach with lots of sand and Daddy could ride a Daddy whale, Mommy could ride a Mommy whale, Jack could ride a baby whale & 'I could ride a sister whale!'. LOL Then she told me the sounds that the whales make. I low squeal for Daddy whale and a high pitched squeal for the baby whale. It was so cute. She is doing well with her shapes & colors she knows them all pretty well. We are working on ABC's & numbers now. Every now and then she can get a letter right but it's hit or miss. I bought some Dr. Seuss flash cards and they are sooo adorable. She loves them and they are a lot of fun. She has learned all her opposites that way & knows them really well now. (Up/Down - Short/Tall etc)
Well for Christmas Eve we will be going to my parent's home to do an exchange with the immediate family and with Dad before he has to go to work that night, then after that we will go up to my Grandparent's house for the big gift exchange and dinner. On Christmas morning we will have our own exchange and a nice breakfast with just our family then later that day we will go to Ryan's families to exchange with them.
Well this is getting very long, I will update again after Christmas with all those updates & photos. Here are some pictures of the last month. We have new video's and lots of photos up on the photobucket. New Video's will be the newest video's posted to "Our Video's 2" & photos of the kids will be under Jack 6-9 Months & Lydia 24-36 Months.
Ryan's job has finally rolled over with the new company. So he is now an employee of CEP/ High Plains Oil & Gas. Things are going well with that so far.
Our new home at 801 Sako Drive is clicking right a long. It had a slow start but things seem to be coming together quickly now. The house is almost finished being framed. It is nice to see kind of what the finished project will look like now. It was hard to picture the house and the size of the yard with just bare land but now that the house is there, you can tell where things will be. The yard is a very nice size, not much in the back but two large side yards which will be fenced. I believe the closing date is still set for end of February sometime.
We have not sold our home on Laurel yet. We have 2 interested parties right now who have both said they are considering putting an offer on the home. Those were last week, I am not anticipating any offers or anything serious until after Christmas but I am really hoping one of the two will pull through. I believe our realtor wants to put our home on an open house one more time before Christmas. With all the pretty lights and decorations up. I still have to get with her to see when that will be, I am thinking maybe Monday evening, the 20th. Ryan did a wonderful job of putting lights and decorations on the front of the home. It looks really great from the street.
Lydia is doing well besides being sick this week. She had a fun day yesterday with Grandma, shopping, wrapping & decorating a gingerbread train. It's hard to believe my baby girl will be 3 in just a few months. She has told me that she wants a Strawberry Shortcake birthday party, so I think I will plan on that unless she changes her mind in the next month. I'm not sure what we will do or where we will have it. I wonder if we will be in our new house by then or in the middle of moving. She also has 2 cousins with birthdays the same week so we will have to see what works with everyone schedule.
Lydia loves to play pretend and has such a great imagination. She is talking really well and it's so cute when she rambles in long sentences about funny things she is thinking about. A few days ago I asked her if she would put lotion on my back for me and she was so excited to help mama! She just kept rubbing and rubbing, I asked her at least 3 times if she was done and she would say 'no, more lotion please' - I think that girl rubbed her mama's back for at least 20 minutes! Then while she was rubbing my back she was telling me about how we should go to the beach with lots of sand and Daddy could ride a Daddy whale, Mommy could ride a Mommy whale, Jack could ride a baby whale & 'I could ride a sister whale!'. LOL Then she told me the sounds that the whales make. I low squeal for Daddy whale and a high pitched squeal for the baby whale. It was so cute. She is doing well with her shapes & colors she knows them all pretty well. We are working on ABC's & numbers now. Every now and then she can get a letter right but it's hit or miss. I bought some Dr. Seuss flash cards and they are sooo adorable. She loves them and they are a lot of fun. She has learned all her opposites that way & knows them really well now. (Up/Down - Short/Tall etc)
Well for Christmas Eve we will be going to my parent's home to do an exchange with the immediate family and with Dad before he has to go to work that night, then after that we will go up to my Grandparent's house for the big gift exchange and dinner. On Christmas morning we will have our own exchange and a nice breakfast with just our family then later that day we will go to Ryan's families to exchange with them.
Well this is getting very long, I will update again after Christmas with all those updates & photos. Here are some pictures of the last month. We have new video's and lots of photos up on the photobucket. New Video's will be the newest video's posted to "Our Video's 2" & photos of the kids will be under Jack 6-9 Months & Lydia 24-36 Months.
Monday, November 29, 2010
Thanksgiving
We had a very nice Thanksgiving day with the Kennedy/Matheson side of the family this year. Mom made a wonderful dinner and Ryan smoked a whiskey smoked turkey to bring to the meal. We had a great visit, had some good laughs and got some nice pictures too. We arranged for a gift exchange with both the Kennedy and the Matheson side of the family this year and we will be doing an exchange with Ryan's side of the family as well.
I was able to get all my shopping done this weekend. I did all my shopping online with the great black Friday weekend deals and got all my exchange gifts bought as well as some gifts for Ryan. We are done shopping for the kids too now, Ryan just needs to get one gift and then we have a few birthday's we need to buy for too then we will be done shopping.
Our house was on a Holiday Extravaganza open house tonight from 4:30pm-6pm. It was one of 8 homes that was on the open house tour tonight. Our realtor was worried with the weather being so very cold that we wouldn't get a turn out but we got 3 families that came through so that was great. She said they all really liked the home so we are optimistic. We also had a showing at 2pm today. Ryan worked really hard over the weekend and got the outside of the house beautiful decorated with lights, trees and a wreath. It looks amazing. I am sure it helped bring people in to the open house. Our realtor said most homes only had one showing and one didn't get any, so we were thrilled to get 3 families. I got lots of new decorations and we put up the tree and got the whole house decorated for the holidays, it really looks great. I will try to take some pictures this week to share.
I want to check out the holiday bazaar this weekend at the CamPlex and I would like to take Lydia to the festival of lights at the camplex park. She just loves seeing the lights!
Here are some new photos :)
I was able to get all my shopping done this weekend. I did all my shopping online with the great black Friday weekend deals and got all my exchange gifts bought as well as some gifts for Ryan. We are done shopping for the kids too now, Ryan just needs to get one gift and then we have a few birthday's we need to buy for too then we will be done shopping.
Our house was on a Holiday Extravaganza open house tonight from 4:30pm-6pm. It was one of 8 homes that was on the open house tour tonight. Our realtor was worried with the weather being so very cold that we wouldn't get a turn out but we got 3 families that came through so that was great. She said they all really liked the home so we are optimistic. We also had a showing at 2pm today. Ryan worked really hard over the weekend and got the outside of the house beautiful decorated with lights, trees and a wreath. It looks amazing. I am sure it helped bring people in to the open house. Our realtor said most homes only had one showing and one didn't get any, so we were thrilled to get 3 families. I got lots of new decorations and we put up the tree and got the whole house decorated for the holidays, it really looks great. I will try to take some pictures this week to share.
I want to check out the holiday bazaar this weekend at the CamPlex and I would like to take Lydia to the festival of lights at the camplex park. She just loves seeing the lights!
Here are some new photos :)
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