Christmas: Take One

Christmas eve we went to dinner with Todd's family and went to the movies and saw We Bought a Zoo. And later went back to my Parents house where my sister's and Brother's were staying for Christmas. Shea and her husband Dustin and my brother Garrett and his wife came out from Utah to be with us Californian's! It was awesome because Christmas day we got to talk to my younger brother that is on a mission in Uganda, Kampala Mission South Africa Mission! Too Cool!! Anyways he is doing so well and loving it of course. He sounds so good! We miss him a lot, but I know he is going to be such a good missionary and help other's out there that are truly looking for the Gospel. I admire him and his courage to get out there and do the Lords work and have the experience of a life time!

Santy Clause

Aila meet Santa yesturday AND she turned 4 months old! She didn't even cry -hehe. Im sure next year she won't be so calm and relaxed. Im sure she will scream and cry for me...reaching out like I'm leaving her for good. I think it's a bit torcher and at the same time a little funny when children scream and cry when they meet Santa. My sister and I took our little ones to go see Santa at the Pro Bass Shop(Disneyland for men). They were doing them for free! It was so awesome, but took us forever to finally get to the front of the line. You could only imagine how crazy it was. I was sort of surprised that I even agreed to go. It's a little insane and sort of silly how people get all Crazed about having their child meet a FAKE santa...a STRANGER man in a costume! Haha...BUT we all do it. Anyways I can't believe Aila is 4 months old, the time goes by so fast. Everyday she is doing something new. Her new thing is being more voice stress and at the beginning stages of laughing...well ok she only giggled for me once so far, but it's only a matter of time :) Yays!

Utah

We decided to cruise on up to Utah for a mini vay-cay. 

Todd mainly worked and helped his aunt with projects around her house. They did a great job putting in tile and wood floors. I just hung out and got to visit with my brother Garrett, Jenna, my sister Shealeen and Dustin. It was pretty cold and finally it snowed. But by the time we got outside the snow was gone, Plus having a small baby isn't the best thing to do. It was a good trip, but we are so happy to be Home Sweet Home!

Aila is just the cutest and so fun to dress up. She's still pretty tiny and can still somewhat fit into newborn/0-3 month clothes haha, so variety is slim for now, but we went to a family reunion christmas bash on Todd's side of the family and Aila was so festive :)

Flying Bye

Well once again the Holiday's are FLYING BY, but we still have Christmas. Which is personally one of my favorite holidays of course. We took our Christmas Pictures last weekend at yorba linda park which has really neat spots to shoot! Anyways So we got some cute shots of us and I did a photo shoot for our good friends The Glenn's as well. They came out really cute! I snagged a cute photo idea off of Pinterest for Christmas that I wanted to try and I think it came out pretty cute and festive! Our Baby girl is growing so fast and she is getting so big. We love her so much, she is just too much fun! She is 3 months and 2 weeks old and is just our adorable dainty love bug! She smiles so much and I know any day now she is just going to start laughing a little bit and we cannot wait for that to happen.

THANKSGIVING

It was a really good day and the food was even better. We went to grandpa Jack and grandma Phyllis house this year with the Walker side. It was Aila's first Thanksgiving and she was pretty good the whole day as usual, but of course right when it came time to sit and enjoy the food she started to fuss ha go figure! But we had a good day just hanging out, relaxing and taking family pictures since it was all of us together it was the perfect time!

The whole gang

Aila's first Ornament

Last week I went and spent some time at Hobby Lobby and bought Aila her very own and first Christmas  Initial Ornament. One day we will have a home and get a bigger tree, but for now our two feet tree fits just nicely in our lil place.

Pinterest Project #2

Another easy Project AND it kind of came out ok haha! I got the circle from the Dollar Tree, twirled it with yarn and added some fake poinsettia's and extra vintage buttons for the middle. It was a good practice wreath...haha!

Our Growing Babe

Aila is almost 3 months. 

Crazy how the time is just literally flying by!

Update:


She loves to smile..A LOT! And she has the cutest smile.

She has always been very alert! She loves to be out and about and up front so she can see whats going on. 

She found her hands and just stares at them..trying to figure them out, its really the cutest thing.

She LOVES to  sit up on her own and she can with a tiny bit of help. Were going to have trouble with this one...

Pinterest Project #1

So Im starting small because having a 12 week old baby can get a little time consuming. But I am going to start a  Pinterest  Project and blog about it. It won't be all the time, but every so often I think it will be fun and interesting to pick something, wither it be a recipe or a craft and make it happen. There are so many creative, fun and yummy things I am dying to make, This may just motivate me to do so! 

Like I said i'm starting out small and so tonight I made 

Homemade "Starbucks" my favorite Hot Chocolate! 

And it was seriously so good! Tastes just like Starbucks

Not much of a Challenge, but fun and Oh So Yummy!

Ingredients-

1/4 cup water

2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder

2 tablespoons granulated sugar

1 1/2 cup milk

1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract

Garnish-Whipped cream

Instructions-

• Combine the water, cocoa and sugar in a 16-ounce microwavable safe pitcher, such as a 2-cup glass measuring cup. Zap the mixture on high for 30 seconds. Stir well to create chocolate syrup.

• Add the milk to the chocolate syrup and microwave the mixture for 1 1/2 minutes. Add the vanilla extract. Pour into Mug and serve with Whipped cream.

Halloween Blues

Well this year's Halloween was just a bad time for us which is so sad cause it was Aila's first Halloween and ya well...ya. Todd got sick and still is sick, but coping with it, Aila kind of has the snuffles and I had/have milk fever. Poor us haha! It has been a rough couple of days, but were all feeling a lot better and are so THANKFUL for our health, and Prayer! O.K so we missed Halloween, I honestly didn't really have anything wowie wow wow for Aila to wear anyways...so whateves next year we can really go all out. Now we look forward to Thanksgiving. I am so happy that we had Aila just in time for the holidays...shes really starting to be fun and blooming into her personality. She's a smiley girl, but stubborn and knows what she wants...and GETS IT! She sleeps with me, she has since I popped her out into this world. I know it's not good, but whatever...it makes nursing easier and shes so cuddly. But now she is getting quite demanding and knows what she wants. She's 11 weeks now and I am sometimes worried and thinking did I create a little monster? Haha...a very cute monster :) 

Here she is...getting so big 11 weeks 

♥