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JCP Pictures

These are the pictures of the pictures that we had taken at JCP.





A few weeks ago we had some friends over for dinner and games. Between the 4 couples there were five kids, and I'm not sure if we're going to do that again. We tried to play trivial pursuit and it was so difficult that we decided that whoever got one pie piece won (normally you get 5 or 6)! But it was still fun.
We went down to Utah a couple of weekends ago for our neice, London's, blessing. It was so fun to see Cory's sis and bro-in-law. We also hung out with Trenna for the day on Saturday. Our niece, Madolin, who is 2 1/2 was so funny. At one point she was running around in circles in the living and Cory was sitting on the floor reading a book or something, and all of the sudden she stopped and said "This is fantastic, Cory!". It was so cute. Phoenix didn't hardly sleep the whole time we were there, so that was tough, but that's just how he rolls.
It seemed like there was more I was going to say, but now I can't think of anything... I am going to try to post a video now. We'll see how that goes.

I can never think of good titles...

Sorry for the long time in between posts. Our camera battery has been on the fritz so I haven't been able to take/upload pictures. I will do so soon, but in the meantime, here a couple of updates from us.
I took Phoenix a few weeks ago to get his pictures taken at JCP. Of course he was a little frump (freakin' grump). As soon as I set him down he started crying and wouldn't smile at the lady. The only time he smiled was when I was holding his hands so he could stand up. He warmed up a little when we took his clothes off and took some baby-in-a-diaper pics with his crib blanket, but his eyes are a little red and teary in the pictures. If I can do a decent job, I will take pics of the pics and post them on here. After they loaded all of the pictures onto the computer and brought us back in to look at them, Phoenix was smiling and laughing and making noise at the lady like crazy. Of course.
He is just getting over his first cold. It's pretty terrible. He hasn't been sleeping well and he's been very grumpy. A couple of nights he slept with me and Cory slept in the guest room. Those were pretty sleepless nights for both of us. We didn't realize how uncomfy that guest room bed is! Sorry to anyone who has slept on it!
Cory and I had a little "staycation" over valentine's weekend. We left Phoenix with Grandma and Grandpa Sanford for the night (thanks!) and got a hotel room in Boise. It was so nice to have a little break and do whatever we wanted with out having to work around naps and feeding schedules. We went the movies for the first time since he was born. We saw Seven Pounds. It wasn't at all how we expected it to be. It was interesting, but it was so sad! We loved the break but we were happy to get back to Phoenix the next day.
We've been doing some house projects lately that have been fun. We rearranged Phoenix's room and got rid of the guest bed box spring and frame. We just kept the mattress and set up the twin bed in his room and put his dresser in the closet, so there is a lot more space now. It's really nice! Also, we got some paint to paint one of the walls in our room. We will hopefully get to that soon. And, we bought some bricks to FINALLY finish our backyard fire pit. We're planning to get that done in the spring. We will post pictures when we're done.

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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.

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.

What the...?

The last few times I have tried to update my blog is hasn't worked. Sorry for the delay. The Sanfords are having a wonderful holiday season so far. We got all of our Christmas shopping done before Thanksgiving and I am sold! Never again will I put off shopping until the short amount of time between Thanksgiving and Christmas. It makes the time go by too quickly. Seriously, this has been the most fun and relaxing holiday season we've had in a while. We've watched a ton of Christmas movies, spent a lot of time with friends and family, decorated the house (I even got Cory up on the roof to put Christmas lights up...1st time ever!) and sent out a Christmas card (also a first). We're loving it. Phoenix is doing great, of course. He sits up by himself, and rolls over both ways (but only if he has a reason to, and he usually doesn't). He also is getting his first tooth! It just poked through his gums a couple of days ago. He's been a lot more fussy than usual, but luckily he's still pretty good. He eats some solid food now. The two pictures below are rice cereal and yams at Thanksgiving. He also ate some avocado yesterday. I don't think he liked it, but we'll keep trying.

Speaking of Thanksgiving, we went to Weiser for the holiday and had a great time. Cory, my dad, my brother Q, and I had some good games of Risk. I love Risk (mainly because I win more than I loose. I'm a bad looser when it comes to games. Just ask Cory. He won't play scrabble with me anymore because I get too mad). We didn't do much after thanksgiving shopping, but we did hit the local Bi-Mart. Fun times! Also, my mom and sister and I went to Jo-Ann's. If you've never been to Jo-Ann's the day after Thanksgiving, don't! It's CRAZY, but they do have some great deals! As soon as you get there, you get a number (restaurant style) in order to get your fabric cut. Then you do your shopping while you're waiting for your number to be called. We got number 89. By the thime we were done shopping and ready for the cutting table, they were only on number 64. It was insane, but fun.

We took family pictures this year. It was freezing! Of course the ones that turned out well are the ones with the houses in the background. We had some really cute ones in front of some evergreen trees, but there were these annoying boys in the park making noises and trying to get Phoenix's attention so he's looking to the side in all of them. Grrr. Also, a couple of weeks after family pictures, I chopped my hair off. It's pretty short. The longest layer is about at my chin and the shortest is like 4 inches long! I still can't decide what I think about it.

A quick side note. I picked Cory up from work yesterday and as we were leaving the Courthouse, we saw some EMT's wheeling a dead body out of the apartment building across the street! It was kind of creepy!