Monday, January 26, 2009

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I'm losing the blogging spirit. It just seems like I always have better things to do than blog. I will still keep doing it for the people that we don't get to see very often, but I apologize in advance if it's even more boring than it has been. I mostly just like showing off pictures of Phoenix anyway :-) Speaking of Phoenix, the picture below was supposed to be in the last post, but I accidentally deleted it, and didn't want to take the time to put it back on.

Here are pictures of the graffiti pictures that I talked about last post.





And finally, one of my new year's resolutions was to cook a real meal at least twice a week (and by real I mean not hamburger helper or grilled cheese sandwiches). So, I made this chicken pot pie last week, with home-made crust. I was so proud of myself that I had to take a picture of it! The next night I made a ham n' swiss braid. Home-made bread and everything. I was also very proud of that, but didn't take pictures of it.





Tuesday, January 13, 2009

2009!!

Can't believe it's 2009 already! What a fun year 2008 was. We had some friends in town from Phoenix (the city) who had a New Year's party. It was great the see them. Phoenix (the boy) staued up until 12:30! It was a super late night for him. Cory and I did make some resolutions and blogging more is not one them. Sorry! Maybe if I was more funny/interesting.... Cory and I did resolve to be more "green" this year, though. We are going to do better about recycling, we sent out "e thank-you" cards after Christmas, we're doing cloth wipes (in addition to cloth diapers), Cory rides the bus to work (which he actually did most of last year, too), we got a bunch of those flourescent energy saver light bulbs, and as soon as it's warm enough, we're going to walk to church. If you have any other great "green" ideas, let us know!

Phoenix is 6 months old now! He had 2 bottom teeth and is starting to get his top two. He had 6 month vaccinations yesterday and I think his legs are really sore. He keeps crying and won't try to stand up (which is very unusual). He also has his first fever. Sad story. But he is doing all kinds of fun tricks now. He sits up really well by himself. We put a box under a sheet and had him sit on it for these photos.

Looking up at dad
Kind of smiling, but kind of not



With the light shining through his ears...so funny :-)

Phoenix loves attention...Cory's parents were over the other day checking out our awesome grafitti pics (pictures to come later) and we were showing them how he can rock forward from a sitting position onto his hands and knees, how he loves playing with his push walker, and how he can pull himself up on his crib rails. Before then he had just pulled himself up from sitting to his knees, but when we put him in his crib to show them, he pulled himself right up to standing while looking around at everyone and smiling his big cheesy smile.



Christmas!

Christmas was so fun this year! We spent Christmas Eve and morning with Cory's family. All the kids were home for one last big hurrah until who knows when, so it was fun. We all had matching PJ's and lots of gifts! Phoenix loved the wrapping paper and boxes, of course.



Our best Christmas present ever!!



So focused. This is serious stuff!


Christmas afternoon we went to Weiser to do gifts with my family, and of course, forgot to take pictures. It was great to see everyone, though! We hung out there for a couple of days before coming back to Meridian on Saturday in the blizzard! It was fun and relaxing as usual. I love the holidays.