Nope, I'm not even going to apologize to myself for not blogging more. We all get so busy around the holidays and between Thanksgiving and New Year's I can almost bet I won't get around to it. As for right now, we're experiencing technical difficulties with the computer spontaneously shutting off so until we can get it fixed it's hit-and-miss for me to even get online.
Things around here are just the usual pre-Christmas break busy, but with some wedding stuff tossed in too. Mckenzi will recieve her endowments on the 22nd then get married on the 29th. I've been up a couple of times to help dip pretzels, stuff envelopes, fold paper puff balls, etc.. I think a vacation sounds good right about now too; I may have to hide in their luggage and go on my own honeymoon:).
Jed is done with school till January, then after this next semester will have to do some major schedule shuffling to fit in nursing school. It will be sad for him to leave Qwest when it comes to that, they've really taken care of us. It's been a long time since I've paid for school!
I am still enjoying the work/baby balance. I get so excited to come home and do all of the mom stuff, but get excited to be able to go to work and be in a different environment too. I always pictured myself as a stay-at-home mom; but I actually think I like having a little bit of both in my life because both jobs are so different.
Ary is of course still changing a little bit every day. Her new thing now is to push up on her knees so she's on all-fours. She can't get anywhere like that but just kind of wobbles for a minute before she goes back down on her belly. We'll have a crawler pretty soon it lookes like. Maybe I should use Christmas break to baby-proof the house. She loves to go diet coking with grandma Teresa

and shake it with grandma Mitz:)

Do all babies do this?

Remember the "bitter beer face" commercial? Ary has been a little Jim Carey lately pulling this face and it cracks me up every time.



I've seen babies do this before too and can't understand how they stay asleep in such an awkward position. Ary has started to roll onto her belly while she sleeps and somehow managed not to kink her neck:).



I enjoyed the newborn stage when she was so tiny and the clothes and diapers were tiny too, but this stage is so much fun now that Ary has some spunk. It's fun to be able to interact more with her. We now take fewer naps and play more, eat rice cereal from a spoon, *almost* sit up alone, and put whatever fits into those little fists straight to her mouth. She loves playing with Schroeder and hanging out with grandmas and grandpas too.

October 09 recap

This post is more for me just to be able to look back on and see a few more "firsts". Things around here are still mostly the same as ever, we have lots of days like this,
but for the most part we are all healthy and happy. Ary has been eating rice cereal
and has obviously not quite known what to think of it, but I think we're learning to like it slowly.
Jed has been busy with work, school, basketball, and his calling with the priests, so Ary enjoys time with him when they hang out in the evenings.
He is done with statistics and next semester will be moving on to pathology. This one-class-at-a-time stuff gets tedious for all of us, but Qwest helps pay for it as long as it doesn't interfere with his work schedule so we're not complaining too much. He's a good student and I'm a good nagger to get things done, so slow but steady will win this school race.
On Halloween Ary hung out with her "buggy" cousins
and was the cutest glow worm I've seen yet.
As for me, I'm trying to get back into the gym and on the treadmill, but am feeling like an 80 year old. I'd like to get back to exercise every day but that will be a work in progress too. My car is finally feeling it's age too, the poor thing is 10 years old now and has bit the dust so I'm driving Jed's bug. You should see me crawl into the back to strap in Ary for work; we're quite the sight:). Life is business as usual though and we are just taking the ups and the downs one day at a time. I'm getting excited for the upcoming holidays more this year since I'll have some fresh entertainment with Ary around!

the BUMBO

I think this is one of the greatest inventions I've come across. Ary will sit for a little while all by herself in her Bumbo while we eat dinner or I'll put her on the counter while I load the dishwasher. The other day Jed brought banana bread to his mom's Sunday dinner, so Ary sat right next to the mixer the whole time he made the batter and watched the paddle spin around. He was able to get everything mixed and loaded into the tin while she sat there. We've held her so much that she thinks she has to be up in someone's arms all the time, so it's a feat in itself to get small things like this done without her having to be picked up!
I know people will say that we spoil her by holding her a lot, but my feeling is that it's not like we're going to have a whole bus-load of kids to do this all the time with, so I don't care if my baby wants to be walked and rocked around right now. This time is already going by so fast and pretty soon she won't need to be cuddled anymore:(.
We go tomorrow for her four month shots and check up. She is still changing so much so fast; we notice little things that are new almost every day. Her eyes are changing from that slate newborn color, I'm crossing my fingers they'll be green like mine:) and the hair she lost after the newborn stage is coming in lighter too. She definitely is starting to look like her own little self and not a generic baby anymore, yay!

Go Jazz!

Dr. Graf and co. were unable to attend the Nuggets game, so he generously offered his tickets to Mitzi. Well there were two sets so Jed and I got to go too! It was so fun. Dr. G's tickets are with the 100 club so we got to go upstairs and have a yummy buffet before the game, then sit on the THIRD ROW! It was so incredible to be that close to the players and be able to listen to them talk to each other. We all gawked at how huge they are up close and deciphered a few tattoos even:).



The "Birdman" as they call him was so funny. He thought so highly of himself when in reality we thought he looked like a big goofball. Check out the red wings on the back of his arms.


Well the Jazz won and we had such a good time! In my next life when I'm rich and famous I'll have season tickets like these every year;). We loved it! Thanks for sharing Dr. G!

Happy 3 months!

I can't believe it's been three months since Ary joined us. Life has changed so much in such a short time! She is such a big girl now; holding her head up, sitting in the Bumbo, finding her voice, and watching TV. I was so sad when I packed her newborn clothes up, but this stage is so much fun too. There is a personality and lots more smiles than when she was brand new.

This summer...