Happy New Years!

We just got back from a fun new year's day spent with my family. We all went and saw Charlottes Web and Hallie LOVED it. She loves animals so much right now, but I was still sceptical about bringing her to the theatre, last time I did it was a nightmare and I ended up out in the lobby with her the whole time. This time she was amazingly good! She jumped between Elizabeth's and Lara's laps a little bit, but she watched the whole movie and kept telling us all what animal was on the screen and what sound it makes, it was really funny. Last night we all played games and ate yummy finger foods at Mimi's house. My parents brought their new puppy Emma over (she is SOOO cute, identical to cocoa....it's actually kinda weird) and Hallie fell into her water dish. So she's wearing one of Owen's shirts for these pics. Hope everyone had a happy new year! We did...but it'll be nice to finally get our lives back to normal.

We're home!

We had such a fun Christmas this year with Matt's family. We just flew home last night, and it was really nice to sleep back in our own beds. We were able to stay longer this trip than we usually get to and it was really nice. Hallie made out like a bandit with presents, we had to pack one and a half suit cases of just her presents (you think her aunts and grandparents love her or what?) and Matt and I didn't do too badly ourselves. Matt got a new digital camera from his parents which we were really in need of and they got me a 28 gage shot gun. When we go camping with them I really love shooting clay pigeons but I always borrow someone elses gun, so now I have my own! :) Fun. Basically Christmas was really good and Hallie even got to go and ride her aunt Katie's horse. Here are some pics.

Belly Butt

Hallie's new favorite thing to show people, her "belly butt". The scary thing is when she tries to find other people's belly butt, particularly at church, and starts lifting up women's skirts. Poor Jessica was one of her victims at church a week and a half ago, she was actually the first victim when we discovered that Hallie thought the quickest way to find a woman's belly button at church was to go up their skirt. It was really funny. As long as I'm talking about Hallie (lets get real, she's all I talk about) she has also become OBSESSED with "Choco milk" (thank you Matt) and won't drink milk without choco. She stands in front of the refrigerator, because she knows the chocolate milk mix is on top of the fridge, and cries and yells and stamps her feet begging for "Choco". And me, being the good disciplinarian that I am, and wanting to teach her that she doesn't get what she wants by throwing fits...I give it to her to make her stop begging. At least I'm AWARE it's bad parenting and plan to nip it in the bud at some point. Just not right now when I constantly feel like I'm on the verge of throwing up. Right now, I'll do anything...ANYTHING, as quickly as I can to make her happy so I can continue hovering close to a good throw up place. Considering getting pregnant? Let me remind you if this isn't your first and warn you if it is....it sucks. Find a way to get a nasty case of food poisining and as you're throwing up and feeling nausious all day just think, this is what I will feel like for 3 months of pregnancy at least. Just giving you something positive to think about. :)

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

Ahhh, finally, Christmas season is here. Love it. We set up our cute, fake, Christmas tree tonight and it made me so happy. Now all we need is some ornaments to go on it. I think I'll go to Target tonight. Scratch that, I don't want to get the crap beaten out of me by all the Thanksgiving Day weekend shoppers. I'll wait till monday.
This is my Grown-Up Christmas List:
1. To not feel sick at all with this pregnancy (pleeease santa!)
2. To get my Honda Odyssey mini-van. (I'm obsessed with them)
3. To not gain 75 lbs with this pregnancy (PRETTY please santa!)
4. No more lives torn apart...and wars would never start...and time would heal all hearts! (you know, the Moriah Carey song, I don't know if she's the original singer).
5. A large, unexpected sum of money dropped in our mail slot would be nice. :)
6. A maid to come and clean our little apartment that I can't seem to keep clean by myself.
7. A full day of sleeping with NO interuptions from ANYONE. (Santa...I would do anything for you in exchange for this one).
8. A plastic surgeon standing by to fix what having Hallie did to my body and what this next one will surely make worse. :)
9. For Matt not to have to work anymore and to just be with me all the time. (I'm sure his Christmas list will cancel this request out).
10. Another wonderful, healthy, beautiful, fun, naughty in a good way, yummy baby in July.
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

Hallie's Big Announcement...

Shots...ouchie

Hallie has been coughing for like 2 and half months now. I've already had her to the Dr. once and he said that there was nothing wrong with her. So I finally got brave enough to take her back today (I'm always afraid I'll look like a crazy mom). He told me to try over the counter Claritin and if it isn't better by Friday, to take her to get a chest x-ray. Fair enough. But then I just had to ask.... When we were living in our last apartment they made us sign a paper saying that there was lead based paint in the apartments. So ever since then I've been worried, What if Hallie has lead poising? That can lower a childs IQ you know. So I asked him about it, and he told me I should have her checked for just incase. Do you know how they check that? They draw their blood from their arm. So he sent me right over to the lab, the whole way there I just knew I was going to pass out when they did it. I also knew Hallie was going to think I was a horrible mother for letting these people hurt her like that. It was horrible. She stuck out her bottom lip like her little heart was broken. I had her feet pinned between my legs, her left arm under my armpit, and had to hold her right arm straight with my two hands. So I was the awful mom letting this scary lady with really long finger nails hurt my baby. I told the nurse I didn't think I could watch, she said I had to so I could hold Hallie's arm really still. When she put that needle in....I almost passed out. But it was over before I knew it and we were out of there. I got her some healthy chicken nuggets for being such a good girl. :) So for both our sakes....I hope we don't have to do that again for a long time!

Best Friends.....usually. :)

Julie just sent me this picture and I loved it so I wanted to post it. This was about a month ago at the beach in the Laguna. Love you Jules!

The Whole Fam Damily

Wedding Weekend.

So Lara got married this past Saturday. It was awesome. The whole thing was gorgeous, they were so happy, the food was so good. Everyone had a really good time. The wedding and the reception were at this beautiful house in San Clemente over looking the ocean. Her colors were white. All the flowers were white, everything. It was a gorgeous sunny day (maybe a little too sunny, we were all really hot) and everything was perfect. Here are some random pics, I don't have many of Lara, and non of Lara and Steve, but I'll get some more soon.