The Simple Life

New Year's Eve...

I am tired of being sick! I had a cold over Thanksgiving, and then I was sick a couple weeks before Christmas, and then I got sick again Christmas evening...and now I have a horrible earache, when will it ever end!?

So far we don't have any spectacular party planned for this evening. Just getting better sounds fun to me right now! I am working today until 2, have plans to return the annoying car seat that I just bought for Gulianna last week, and then what...Jamba Juice, since I haven't had one for a while, I think since Nancy brought me one. {thank you by the way!} Maybe that will get me better!

Thanks to everyone that is taking a guess on when Isabella will be coming, I really wish I knew myself! Jalyn just had her baby this morning?! Crazy, maybe I will be too! We both had dr appointments on Monday too! Gulianna loves to say "hi Isa" to my stomach, she can't quite say Isabella, but it sounds so cute! She will randomly come over to me and say hi to her, so funny that they just know there is another baby there! I have a couple of "matching" clothes for the both of them, can't wait!

By the way, the fabulous Amy is doing a giveaway on her new blog Kati Cupcake, so be sure and enter, and mention that I sent you over, hee hee! I love all her work that she does, she really is amazing! If you haven't been to her

  store yet, then you are really missing out, and if you don't sew, you will want to when you leave! I just finished my second sewing project in my life. {not even going to count the pathetic "pot holder" and "mouse" that we made in Teen Living, if anyone remembers, Ashley maybe? I will post about them later, no camera today, imagine that! I finally finished my curtains for Scrapalicious a while back, and then Sunday evening Claudia helped me follow an apron pattern, so I made an apron for Gulianna!

Hope you all have a Happy New Year!

Time to play...

 

Leave a comment below with your guess, and name, and I will draw a winner, after she arrives!  

Merry Christmas...

Here is my Christmas card that I made very quickly last Saturday...and do you even think that I have sent them off yet, no of course not. That is why it says Happy Holidays, instead of Merry Christmas...hopefully they will at least be in the mail today. 

I hope everyone has a good Christmas tomorrow! We have plans to bake some cookies this afternoon and deliver them to our neighbors, and then head up to my mom's house tomorrow for Christmas! I am super excited for Gulianna to open her presents tomorrow, there is one that I have been wanting to open up and look at myself...but I have been good, and waited...okay I did open the box up before I wrapped it, but the "contents" were wrapped in plastic, and then Levi would have known that I did peek at it!

I am wondering myself when baby Isabella is coming, could be any day or could be in a couple weeks, I just wish I knew for sure. I have to much to do before she comes and not enough time, as always. At least I have my hospital bag some what packed...who even knew you had to bring stuff there...I was lucky enough last time with Gulianna to have my makeup and a change of clothes, Levi had to buy all his stuff and other things we needed, when we were already in Rexburg...so I hope this time I am kinda prepared? Who knows...anyway stay tuned for a little guessing game!

Time...

I have been working on this album for a couple weeks...I thought that this would be Levi's Christmas present if I actually got it finished in time...I worked on it on Sunday, and I think I have about 3 more 2 page layouts plus I have to figure out what to do with the cover of the album! I just wish I had more time....hmmmm what will I be doing tonight in the wee hours! 

Santa...

On {Dec. 8} we took Gulianna to the mall to see Santa! She's seen him a couple of times, but not officially with pictures and all...So here she was waiting patiently in line, good thing there was only 2 kids in front of us!

Then she decided to lay on the floor and start kicking her little legs! {"get off the floor you're getting DIRTY"}

and then it was her turn..."Dad don't leave me with him!"

and so here is her picture with Santa for this year...

"oooh look what I got!" apparently she was just fake crying...

You better not Pout...

I let Gulianna open her first Christmas present for this year, because she is still wearing her Halloween pajamas, and they are getting a little snug...so we handed her the present, and then she does this...

When she was done laying there for a minute, I showed her how to open her present...

She opened it very carefully, ripping one piece at a time! I was afraid that if we let her open one, she would want to open all the others, but she hasn't even touched them!      

Yeah! New Christmas jamaramas! Now lets try and put them on over my shoes!

Christmas Parade...

On {December 5} Rigby had its "Midnight Madness" that started out with a parade, so we bundled up and watched it after work. It was freezing! Gulianna kept taking her gloves off...

Brittney, Gulianna, Candra & Malachi

Thanks Nancy for bringing a little chair for Gulianna! She loved it! Afterwards we went to eat pizza, and we were planning on going to see the Nutcracker, but it was full for the first showing, and Levi was too "tired" to wait for the second one, boo hoo... so we went home.       

Thanksgiving...

 We went over to my mom's for Thanksgiving, she had everything all ready before we got there...and she even went to the airport to pick up Anthony! We haven't been able to see Anthony since he's been home from Iraq...so it was nice to see him for Thanksgiving.

Gulianna on our way up there...

and with Rene and RJ, now where's Anthony? I can't believe I didn't get one single picture...

mom's decorated Thanksgiving table...

and we also celebrated Annareigh's birthday, can't believe she's 15 now, she was born on Thanksgiving fifteen years ago! 

oh...there's Anthony!

Halloween...

On Halloween, we worked at the store, and then left early to go to Idaho Falls to buy our Halloween candy {see always last minute} and then went over to Taylor's Crossing for "Trick or Treat Street"...yeah right, we went right passed it, there were soooo many people there I figured it was not worth it at all. So we headed back to Rigby to our Trunk or Treat at the church parking lot...Gulianna had fun holding out her bag for candy!

after that we went over to Lorinda's for dinner, Gulianna lOvEd playing with the skeleton head...and kept going outside to see it! Later that night we found her at the neighbors house trying to get more candy...

Boo at the Zoo...

We took Gulianna to Boo at the Zoo in Idaho Falls, she had fun, and boy did she hang on tight to that candy bag. When we were leaving and we had to put her in her car seat, I had to take the bag away so that I could put her seat belt on, and she thought I was taking her candy bag away, so she through a fit! I gave it right back! Then as I was driving, she would reach into her bag, pull out a candy, look at it, and then toss it on the seat. She kept doing that until she got to something chocolate...and then she held it up in the air, saying "eeuhh!" so that I could open it for her...what a silly monkey. She knows her chocolate!

{pictures taken 10.29.08}

Picking a pumpkin...

I was planning on taking Gulianna to a pumpkin patch, but every time we got off work, it was getting to dark, so we never made it to one. Gulianna and I had colds all Halloween week, which kinda sucked, who wants to be sick the best time of the year! I managed to take her to Broulims to find a pumpkin, but because I waited till the last minute, they were all gone. They had a couple huge mushy ones, nothing even round like a pumpkin! I took a couple of pictures of her playing with the ugly pumpkins, and then we went inside and found a perfect little one her size, for 79¢, imagine that! She loved it, she tried to say pumpkin, so cute...and we actually still have it, and it's December now!

{pictures taken 10.28.08}

Ouch...

When it was nice outside, and when we were actually home, usually just Sundays, I let Gulianna just play outside by herself. But this particular day {Sunday} we had Regan over, so she was playing with Gulianna, and then she decided to go feed the horses.

{we have our neighbors horses on our property...do you think that I am actually a cowgirl or something? only kidding, I would love to have a horse, but I'm still scared of them...haven't had the best luck with them, I got kicked by one when I was younger, and then I had to ride the crazy horse, when I was in Girl Scouts, and my horse ran off the trail, down a steep mountain...luckily I didn't get hurt, anyway...}

So Gulianna was picking some grass so that she could feed the horses too, luckily I was right there at the time, because the horse actually bit her little hand, right before my eyes! She just looked at me, and then kept trying to feed them, I think it only barely got her, no teeth? who knows, she didn't cry! But then she wanted to "walk" with them. She was right underneath them...aaahh! I couldn't keep her away, so we had to bring her inside the gate and actually close it.

{pictures taken 10.26.08}

Our Halloween party...

Man am I behind or what...we had a great time at our party, despite the crappy day I had before the party started! Halloween is my favorite, I wish it could be like this all year long!

my invite...

***I've been having fun making digital invitations, instead of handmade ones, they are just faster, but I don't think I will ever be converted to digital scrapbooking. 

awesome drink labels! and our last minute cupcakes that me and Claudia made, we wanted to have everything ready, but that didn't happen...

Claudia made the scary ones, I made the monkey ones...

all the little sh...I mean munchkins...

Batman jamaramas...and popcorn, mmmm!

Holiday Recipe Extravaganza #3...

Holiday Recipe Extravaganza #2...

I love this recipe because it's super easy, and something I can actually do, plus it's so good! Enjoy! 

Holiday Recipes...

Thank goodness for Shelly for putting this on! There are some good recipes out there!

Here is one to add...these are the BEST!

 

Surprise...

Well...I'd figure I'd say something about it, before she actually comes, who knows for sure, she could be here by Christmas for all I know! I am probably around 34 weeks, so coming right up. Her name is Isabella Marie, and no it's not after that Twilight girl...I haven't read those.

And don't feel bad...I only found out in August, so there...gotcha! 

16 months old...

Gulianna is getting so big! Along with milestones also comes annoyances...like today when she decided to take off her diaper after she took a crap, I knew it was coming, but I'd thought I'd chance it and run out to the car to get the box of diapers, that I had just bought. But it was too late, I came back upstairs to her holding out her fingers with you know what on them...little s***! She also likes to take her pacifier out of her mouth and throw it on the ground, and then immediately pull her hair, that is her way of getting mad. She also does the "most annoying sound in the world" from "Dumb and Dumber"...yeah that's fun to hear, especially when we're shopping.

Other than that...she is my little helper. She loves to help me with the laundry, she'll hand me the clothes to put in the washer, and then take them out of the dryer and put them in the laundry basket. She will dust and clean everything, when we are cleaning the house. She likes to comb her hair (put her hands in her hair and rub it around...actually I don't think I've ever put a comb or brush to her hair, oh yeah...cuz she hasn't had any until now.) Which by the way is curly now, so fun. She loves her little baby doll, and absolutely lOvEs her frog. {"Froggy Moggy"} don't ask where the names come from...I just make them up. She eats oatmeal, and "toasty bites" every morning for breakfast, unless Levi makes eggs, or pancakes. She likes to say hi and bye to our customers, and looks out the window when they leave. She likes to climb up things, and lOvEs to sit on anything her size. Anything will do. A box, a stack of papers, my paper cutter...whatever she'll just sit her little butt right on it.

Anyway...today we actually stayed home and scrapbooked until about 3:30, and then we had to get out of the house. We met up with Claudia at Roberts, and then had dinner at Fazoli's, and then off to Jamba Juice. Gulianna and I always go for a treat on the first of every month, usually Jamba Juice. Tonight she was very impatient. They were busy, and they only had 2 guys working, and they were slow. So every time someone walked out with their Jamba, she was annoyed. And then when she finally got her "Jamba Treat" she was drooling over it! Then she had to have some of mine, which was the same as hers...whatever!

Here are her 16 month pictures...