Christmas is Almost here...

 ...And then I start hating winter.  I don't mind winter up until Christmas because there is something special to look forward to but after Christmas, I HATE it.  Leave it to me to have a child that LOVES it.  He hates the heat profusely and summer is not his friend.  I guess that is why I felt so strongly that I needed to enrol Sterling into sit-ski lessons this winter at Sunshine.  He is uber excited and lets me know at every spare moment that he can't wait to be the best skier in the world.  I remember liking winter so much better when I skied all winter long before moving to Utah. I can't wait until Bright is a little bit older so that I can start skiing again.

Here is a picture I took today of the two main men in my life right now. They are definitely brothers and both very handsome! Love my little studs! I can't believe how fast they grow.  I feel like my life accelerates faster and faster each year.

I spent yesterday adding some Christmas cheer to my home.  We don't have very many Christmas decorations up this year because I have a certain little girl that can't keep her hands off of anything. So armed with 80 ornaments, one wire hanger and some ribbon to the tune of $15 I made this:  

Ok, thats a better view.  It adds some charm to my house and she can't get her dirty little hands on it!

 

And the award for...

MOST SOCIALLY AKWARD INDIVIDUAL goes to me!

We finally had our American Thanksgiving dinner tonight. The food = so tasty but I = so weird.

I have the attention span of a goldfish. I fully admit to zoning out when ANYONE starts talking to me. About 30 seconds (if I'm lucky) into any conversation my mind starts drifting onto whatever seems to catch my attention. Think of toddler brain and that's me. I promise it's not anyone being particularly boring or me trying to be rude. I just CANNOT FOCUS!!!!

Someone was talking to me and 5 seconds in my eyes wander away from them only to realize they've stopped talking. I say, "yes". Cue them looking at me like I'm an idiot. Oops, it must have been a question. Oh wait, what did I miss them saying while I was thinking about previous question. I say "That's good". Oh crap, that was the wrong response again because they just looked so confused. They start talking one more time as my mind thinks, I wonder what.....I wander away while the person is in mid sentence. Takes me 1 minute to realize I walked away while someone was talking to me. I am the awkward penguin....

That was my night. Sorry in advance to everyone because I am completely and utterly weird and it cannot be helped. At least my double layer cheesecake pumpkin pie was super tasty!

Happy American Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving my American Friends!  Hope you are all eating and enjoying your turkey for me. We usually have a big shindig at our place (because who doesn't need another excuse to eat more turkey and enjoy friends) but this year it was put on hold.  :( Wop Wop.  Last year we gave all our Thanksgiving guests the flu so we decided to play it safe this year.  Good thing we did...

I have been seriously ill all week and decided that I better go into the doctor today as I couldn't even manage to swallow my own spit and haven't slept for days. Turns out I have a very severe case of Strep that she was afraid was near to turning into Scarlet fever.  My joints all over my body are severely swollen and I could barely walk this week.  Yup, lucky me!  So heres to hoping that the antibiotics will kick in the next 48 hours and make me a little less miserable. Wow, talk about being thankful.  I am so very Thankful for modern medicine.  Without it I'm not sure I would have lived as long or at least not as pleasantly with my asthma and all the Pneumonia and strep it brings with it.  I also know that Sterling would absolutely not be here to bring so much joy into my life without all the advances in medicine.  One lucky Mama here that he wasn't born even 50 years earlier!

This little guy has been making me smile all through the pain this week.  Who couldn't resist his chubby little cheeks?

Love my family!

 

Sneak Peak

Look what project we started this weekend...

Happy Birthday Baby Girl!

We had a big day yesterday. We gave our little man his baby blessing in church.  Which resulted in him crying the whole time and me not actually hearing any of what was said :(

Gave him a kiss and he wasn't impressed.  It's already starting with him and he's only 4-months-old!

We celebrated Emery's Birthday after church as well.  My parents are in Calgary for a bit so we decided to get it all done in one big hit even thought Emery doesn't turn 2 until November 15.  Wow, my little girl is almost 2-years-old!  Where does the time ever go?

It took me about 6 hours to make 56 of these babies so I am making sure they are represented in photo form, lol.

Trevor and I gave Emery a baby and saying that she loves it is an understatement.  She carries that baby around everywhere with her.  She is constantly feeding and admiring her baby.

This is Emery trying to hide from everyone singing her Happy Birthday.  If she isn't looking at anyone that means no one can see her.

She is still grumpy because everyone is looking at her.

Had a ton of fun with my family. My sister made this delicious ice cream cake which everyone loved and she left the leftovers!  That is going to set Trevor and myself back in weight loss, lol.  We couldn't resist and had to have another piece last night. 

I was really happy to have my family around to bless the baby and celebrate Emery turning another year older!