Christmas and New Years Review

So for Christmas Eve, we headed up to Ben's Aunt's house and give her and Ben's uncle their gift (a new computer!). They loved it :) Then spent a bit of time helpin them get their old one out and the new one set up. Then we rushed home and got ready for church quickly and got there just as service was starting. Baby got restless after about 40 mins so Ben went out in the hall with her for a bit - there was only about 10 more mins. So we finished and then headed home for a nap! That evening we headed to Ben's grandpa's house for about an hour and then went to the other grandpas for the rest of the night. Lots of gifts and fun!

Christmas Day we woke up and opened presents with the baby and us. Then my parents, sister and brother in law came over and we had breakfast then opened gifts. That baby got even more spoiled of course! We laid around for a while after that and then headed to PA around 3 to see my mom's family. We only stayed about 2 hours because the baby was kind of cranky. It was a good time though seeing the family and good food!

For New Years we headed to Ben's grandpa's for the night. We just sat around and ate and watched TV most of the night. Tried to get the baby to sleep but she wasn't having it! So she stayed up and rang in the new year with mom and dad :) She didn't go to sleep until we got home. Good way to ring in the new year...except the next day we did end up in the ER because she was sick and throwing up.. Turns out it was a virus and she is finally doing better and back to eating. We did have fun on new years day and go play bingo with my mom and sister while my brother in law watch Tricia! Ben even won $100 on an instant ticket!

Patricia's Christmas Gifts

Just wanted to get this list down somewhere....

Ball Pit w/ extra balls (mom or amy)
Cozy Coupe car (mom)
3 chairs - giraffee, puppy dog, princess chair (puppy dog/princess were from us, giraffee from gpa blankenship)
Mega blocks tub (mom or amy)
Play Tent (uncle don)
Socks (10 pairs)
At least 25 outfits/sleepwear
Dora mermaid for the tub
Learning kitchen (Uncle Don/Bev)
Walk and Learn Toy (Uncle Don/Bev)
Couple books (us/my mom)
Interactive book w/ dog (carmie jo)
Sand and Water table (us)
Cupcake kitchen (us)
Telephone (Aunt Shirley)
2 sippys (us)
Roller toy (Uncle Joe/Aunt Karen)
Minnie pursue/glasses (Diane/Shannon/kids)
Hokie Pokie Elmo (Sue)
Gift card to TRU (Don/Bev for plates/cups)
Pink Coat/Hat (mom/amy)


Can we say spoiled?!?!

Christmas and New Years

Time has flown so fast! It seems like I was just in here yesterday writing. Well the baby still is coughing and sneezing. I've given up! The doc said it's allergies, the allergist said it's a cold. So she goes back on the 17th for her 6 month check up and so we will talk about it then again. It doesn't seem to bother her at all - never problems iwth her ears or a fever. So unless it gets to that point I'm just watching her and seeing what happens.

We have had a few milestones since the last writeup.

First Christmas - Such a fun time! She got so many gifts and so did we!!! It was crazy. My mom got me a dyson - I LOVE IT! She spoils us so bad. So needed for the baby though. We did have to travel around a lot for Christmas though but it was worth it to see everyone. Christmas Eve we went to Ben's aunt and uncles, this his grandparents, then his other grandpa's for the rest of the night. His mom and aunt/uncle/cousin were there as well. It was a good time. Christmas Day my family came over to our house and I cooked breakfast than we opened gifts. So many amazing gifts from everyone. We are truly blessed :) Baby did amazing with all the traveling and people holding her. I will come abck and post pics soon!

First New Years - Was wonderful. Baby went to sleep around 10 and then we just hung out with the family at Ben's grandpas. Right after the ball dropped we left - that's way too late for us to stay up now LOL!

First Solids - We have started to introduce solid foods. We only do it about once a day, but we are moving through the foods to make sure she is ok with everything. So far we have done green beans, peas, and carrots. They all seem to be doing good for now! Her first one was on Christmas Day though - so that was a fun milestone :)

We now also have a crazy rolling baby. She rolls everywhere and it's just crazy. But overall she is doing so wonderful! Can't wait to see her stats when we go to the doc on the 17th.

Ben is starting his new job on the 17th also. It's with my BIL - he will be doing drywall. I'm happy for him - he has been not happy for a while now at his job and is ready for a change. This should be good for him. Just a huge change and he has a lot to learn.

Well I think that's all that's new in our world right now. Ready for 2011 and all the fun we are hoping it brings with our little bug!

Sick baby

So last week the baby started to get sick. It was a lot of sneezing and coughing. This happened about a month ago and when we took her in the doc basically said unless she has a fever, pulling at her ears like they are bothering her or she is eating different then to just let it pass. There isn't much they can do for a baby who's that little. Well after a week of her being like this, I finally took her to the doc on Tuesday. After examining her closely they believe she has allergies. I just can't imagine how she has allergies at 5 1/2 months!!! So we now have a machine that is a nebulizer inhaler. It's got the little mask that you have to try and hold up to her mouth. She does ok with it but she moves around a lot so I am constantly moving the mask around with her face. I know she would freak if I tried to use the straps to put it on her so I will just do that for now. They also referred her to an allergist to see if he can give her anything for the congestion in her nose. I'm hoping so!! I have to call them today because they gave Dec. 30 as the first appt available for her but I just can't imagine going two more weeks with her like this. Hopefully the inhaler helps with the coughing. The hardest part is she is too little for the allergy test so it will be awhile before we know what she is allergic too. I just hope we can find something for her soon. Ben has a lot of allergies (environmental) so she definitely takes after him in that department!

I still can't believe Christmas is next weekend!! I'm pretty much done with shopping - just need to finish Ben's mom and then give his uncle some money for his grandpa's gift. I do have some wrapping to do and I'm making picture frames for Ben's Aunt/Uncle and Grandparents so I need to finish putting those together this weekend and wrap them. But I feel good about being pretty much done with everything!

Next week is going to be a quiet week at work! It always is because our field people aren't really doing too much work. Hopefully i find some things to keep me busy because it's going to be such a long week if not. It will be nice though - I only have to work Tues-Thurs! And same for the following week because of New Years! I love this time of year! I do need to post some pics of our Christmas Tree and I need to also come back and post our family pics (which turned out GREAT).

Where does time go?

I feel like I just updated this thing and here it has been weeks! Grr...I'm going to try to be more on top of this!

Our Christmas went really well. Spent time Christmas Eve at Ben's grandpa's house. It was a good time. Got wonderful gifts from his family! Christmas Day we got up and went to Waffle House to get breakfast then went out to my parents for a bit. We weren't planning on doing that but it was a good time. Got to exchange gifts with them and my sister and her husband. Then we left to go visit my family in PA. It was a really good time! I miss seeing them. They all live so close and we live so far :( It was a great time as usual and we stayed until about 10.

New Years Eve I worked (got out a little early at 3 pm!) and Ben had to work also. Then we went over to his grandpa's house for some yummy sauerkraut, pork and sausage. He also was making up his usual margaritas! I didn't drink anything because I knew Ben would be drinking a lot so I just let him have his fun and boy did he! And he paid for it too :)

Other than that not a lot going on. Both of us have been working. Ben got promoted to assistant manager but he did not get a pay increase - something about how he hasn't been there long enough. It just sucks because he is doing all the work for nothing really unless they get a bonus (which they have only done once since he's been there out of about 5 or 6 months). So that's not a big deal right now. Just kind of sucks. Hopefully soon though. They said maybe March he will get one. I don't believe a lot of what they say anymore though because they already lied to him a few times about things so I will believe it when I see it!

I think that's all for updates for now! Have a great weekend!

Merry Christmas Eve!

So yesterday I finally got all the presents we bought wrapped. That was good! So it finally feels like Christmas! Today I am just waiting until Ben gets off work at 5 (who is going to get an oil change on Christmas Eve???) and then we are going to see Aunt Cathie and Bobo to give them their presents, go see his Grandma and Grandpa Boyd, then off to Grandpa Blankenships for the night. I'm extremely sad that we don't get to go to church this year because Ben has to work so late. We were going to when we thought he was only working until 1. Then tomorrow we will head to PA to spend the day with my family. I don't think we have ot be there until 3 or 4 so me and Ben will spend the morning together and open our presents to each other. I'm very excited (although ben is just buying my presents tonight - last minute much??). So I probably won't post until this weekend so

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!!

Getting ready for Christmas

I can't believe Christmas is almost here. I feel bad, I still haven't sent out Christmas cards yet. Maybe tomorrow....they might be late though. Oh well! At least I will have sent them.

We did get our tree up, I need to post a pic of that soon. We switched colors this year. We had been doing blue and gold and this year we switched to purple and gold. We haven't had any Christmas bulb ordeals yet with the animals which has been nice. I figured we would lose a few but none so far!

Our plans for Christmas will be slightly different this year, we will go visit Aunt Cathie and Uncle Jimmy who live up the street and then go see Ben's grandparents on his dad's side who live two streets over. Then we will go spend Christmas Eve with his mom's side of the family. We are not really spending time as a whole with his dad's side which is where we normally are. Then Christmas Day we will go to PA as usual to see my family. I'm excited for Christmas this year, but only in the last few days did I get that way since it finally started snowing. Although I don't think it will for Christmas from what the weather forecast says! Only rain.

Work has been slowing down which kind of sucks but oh well. Maybe after the holidays it will pick back up again so I am not so bored! I am working this week today, tomorrow and Weds. Then I will be off until next Tuesday! It will be a long weekend...I have no clue what I am going to do to occupy my time but I'm sure I will clean and relax.

Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder

I can't believe how long it has been since I have posted. I have just been super busy lately with a lot of different things but mostly work.

I have officially moved my desk but my role does not seemed to have changed like it was supposed to. My boss informed me that he needs me to manage his calendar still (hopefully at the end of this week coming up that will end, he said it will but we shall see). I have a gazillion (ok not that many but it feels like it!) interview candidates coming in for different positions right now. I am really pretty sick of doing it at this point and i was just given more to do, both first and second round. Not really happy about it. I am just through with all of it. Plus, I am getting so many things to for my new job which I love but I can't get around to them and I hate telling my new boss that but it's the truth. Now I also have goals to start working on for next year that I need to work on and I just don't know how I will find the time until the hire someone. But then there will be trianing and learning so it will probably be another month and a half before I finally get a break....I'm hoping for sooner but doubt it. Alright enough of the complaining...

I have been doing a ton of cleaning lately and that is making me feel better about things around here but I still have plenty left to do! Everything just looks a mess to me! Hopefully this winter I will get motivated to get more things cleaned up and out.

I can't believe this week is Thanksgiving already! I have to say that I have much to be thankful for this year, my husband, my family, my friends, my home, my puppies and kitty, my job, and so many more things.