A new Year is Upon us!

As we can all see, blogging is falling down the list of important things to do. Work and daily life activities have taken precedence. I won't Promise for more blogging this year, but I will definitely try!
So! December!
Obviously, the most important thing, CHRISTMAS!!! Camille's first Christmas! It was great! We stayed home, Brendan's brother came to visit, we opened presents, had Christmas dinner and took the tram to the top of Mt San Jacinto and played in the snow. Carrying a baby while treading through snow is NOT easy! And neither is the damn walk back to the tram station. But we had a lot of fun and it was great to have Tyler here too.
Let's do a quick showing of our December in the random pictures I Take:
I made this for my best friends daughter for Christmas:

 I cut up my wedding dress! It was stressful:

I did it to make an awesome family Christmas tree skirt. I'm not done with it yet, but it's coming along awesome

 

 My friend Julia took some awesome picture of Camille and I. I love these two!!

 Camille enjoyed the tram ride up to the top of Mt. San Jacinto

Opening presents with Grandma!

 And playing drums with grandpa!

 Taking a Walk to Oso Flaco Lake

 Hanging ornaments on our tree. Notice the lack of regular ball ornaments. Brendan banned them.

 I made this one of Camille's hand.

 Christmas morning playing with her stocking that Auntie Christine got her!

 Brothers!

 My girl and our tree :-)

 On the top of the mountain! Cold!!

 Playing in the dune. My dad is awesome!

 I took this pic, I love it!!

 Family <3

 And our girl is 5 months old now!!

At Camille's 5 month check up, she weighed in at 14 lbs (32%), 24 inches tall (14%) and 16 3/4 head (69%). Still short with a big head. But she wears it well.
As you can tell from the pics, we spent Christmas here and then the following weekend went to my parents and had a second Christmas there with my parents and sister and her family. It was awesome. Super fun! I love hanging out with my family! I even stayed up until Midnight on New Years Ever! Brendan, my mom and I played Yatzee haha!
Here's a few pics so far this year:

She's eating a lot of new foods so I'm attempting to make some. This above is green beans. It looks gross but I tried it and it just tasted like green beans! I'm going to try some squash and some other things too. And she loves to eat melon through this mesh bag thing we got her.
I'm looking forward to what 2013 has to offer us! i'm turning 30 in 20 days. The big 3-0!!!! Crazy! School starts the end of Jan! This will be my third tax season at work so I feel good about that. Just trying to get our life in order. I don't really have an New Years Resolutions. I guess it's to be positive and kind. More positive and kind - to strangers, to loved ones, as often as I can. There's so much negativity in the world, I want to be that happy spot that can brighten someones day. I also would like to do more creative things, 2012 I slacked on that, so I'd like to sew more and expand my knitting skills. Like maybe actually finish something HA!
And that, folks, is my monthly post. Love you all!!

Uhm, where the Hell did November go?

Phew, I basically didn't blog for a whole month. TERRIBLE! Everytime I'd think about it something else came up.

Okay well let's see, where to begin? One of the biggest changes in our lives was that I went back to work on Nov. 5.  It was really hard on me to leave her but luckily for us Brendan had the first few days off so I came home at lunch and spent time with her. Thursday the 8th was her first day in day care. We found a lady named Cheryl that is pretty close to my work so it's great. brendan drops her off in the morning and I pick her up after work. It still sucks that I can't be with her every day but we've gotten into a routine so it's working out.
The day before I went back to work we got a behind the scenes giraffe feeding at the Living Desert courtesy of Kieran and Amanda. It was FREAKING AWESOME! They were so sweet and pretty up close!!

Also on the 8th, we drove to Santa Maria. We spent Friday hanging out around town with my mom then woke up early Sat the 10th and drove to Chico! It was Camille's first trip to meet her cousins and Uncle Chris! Aunty Christine met her when she was still in the hospital, so this was her first time being able to hold her without a bunch of cords in the way! The trip was good, she slept and was good in the car. Road trips with my parents are always AWESOME. Ava turned 6 years old and have a fun party at a bouncey place and we just hung out with the family up there then drove home Monday. I drove from Chico to Santa Maria, took a break in SM, then drove the rest of the way home. It was a LONG day in the care but it was good to be home by the end of it!


My mom came to visit the following weekend and we took some family pics and Camille met Santa for the first time! She even smiled in the picture!

We had Thanksgiving with Kieran and Amanda! They cooked at their house so we went over there! It was really good and we even had some new stuff, like stuffing that they eat in England. I baked some pies and a side. I'll tell you, it was nice not having to do the whole shebang!

The 24th was a book signing in Palm Springs! Amber and I went, we waited in line for a while but it was so worth it to meet Capt. Jack himself, John Barrowman! He and his sister both held Camille and John even carried her around the store, dancing and singing. It was SPECTACULAR. Seriously best moment EVER.

For her 4 month stats, she is now 13 lbs 7 ounces, has a 16 1/4 in head and is 23 3/4 inches tall. She's around 50% for weight and head but 26% for height.
The 29th was her dr appt, she had shots and the doc said we could start trying solids if we wanted to! So we got some rice cereal. She hasn't quite gotten the hang of it yet, but she's working on it haha! She has a cold right now, she's all coughy and raspy so i'm not pushing it right now. Brendan thought it would be funny if we fed her with a silver spoon so we used this teeny silver baby spoon that he had. We now have regular baby spoons.

Well I think that's a brief breakdown of November. Hopefully I'll be better about blogging in December! Christmastime and all that jazz! Yay!!!

First Halloween!!

I love Halloween! It's the start of my favorite time of year. For the next couple months it's awesome holiday after awesome holiday! Ending in January with my birthday! And I'll be 30 this year so that's a big doozy!
Anyway, our Halloween started off with us looking for a pumpkin patch. I just wanted to take some pictures and kind of have the whole Fall feeling going on. Well apparently there are none in the valley. None that we could find and we even called the chamber of commerce/visitors center. Ridiculous! How can there be no pumpkin patches? What is wrong with this place? Jeez.
So we came home and carved our one pumpkin that I bought unceremoniously at Wal-Mart. No wonder it was so cheap, this thing was like 4 inches thick!! It was so hard to carve!!!!! And we found out B-Bop likes pumpkin guts!



We also went to a cool event at the zoo called HowlOWeen, there was candy and bouncehouses and a scary ride thing. We went with Kieran and Amanda and had a super fun time! They are the ones that got her costume, she was a zebra. Wild zebra on the loose!



 My sister sent Camille a cute halloween box with jammies a frame some candy. It was awesome!! She wore the jammies halloween night :-) She liked them



She also went to her first parade! It was the Palm Desert golf cart parade! It was fun, watched part of it with our friend Heather and her kids. her daughter is just a couple weeks older than Camille. It was a warm day but Camille had a good time! She only last for a little while though before she passed out!


I'm trying to cook more, so we eat out less. I relaly like eating out but it's expensive so time for us to start eating in. I found this amazing idea. I cooked a bunch of chicken breasts in the crock pot then I put them all in my mixer and it shredded them perfectly!! Like easiest thing EVER! So I packaged it all up and separated it to be frozen or used.

 So far with one package I made tacos one night and enchiladas then next. Tonight is spaghetti night :-)
Oh and I finally finished the bookcases! Yea!!!

Grandma Elizabeth got Camille a new wubba nub so now she has two! She loves her new caterpillar!

 And lastly just a pick that I like to call: A boy and his dog :-)