As soon as Christmas was over we took down everything. We needed to do it soon because we decided to go with a realtor and she is going to throw an Open House next Thursday. So we wanted to be prepared and have the house in tip top shape.
My little elves sharing the drummer toy from Grandma Chelle, and Grandpa Bill
These adorable outfits are from Aunt Brooke and Uncle Peter
Isabel's Santa Loot
Ian's Santa Loot
A beautiful Nativity set given to us by Bill and Michelle Elton
Liz's Santa Loot
Izzy had this book full of ideas for kids to do, and doing a box outfit was what she wanted today. Instead of regular wrapping paper I thought I'd use christmas paper and turn her into a present. She of course loved it.
Finally got the videos to download!
Here are some of my favorites taken this week.
One of Princess Isabel dancing,
other of Ian Laughing.
I've started feeding Ian his rice cereal in hope that he'll get a fuller tummy and start sleeping through the night. No luck so far, but he really is taking to it like a champ.
Isabel has a container full of foam stickers and crowns that she likes to play with. She made one for Mommy, and for herself. While we were watching a movie she proceeded to take off the stickers on her crown and put them on Ian. You can only see the ones on his cheek but she had them all over the back of his head. I honestly didn't know what she was doing until after she had quite a few sticking to Ian's head.
Here are my two sweetest boys. Shaun was helping me out by holding Ian so I could cook and I recommended the Snugli so he could hold him and play his 360 at the same time.
Of course Ian had to fall asleep and of course I had to take a picture because he is just too cute!
You can't really tell with the camera but he had a drool pool going with a string attached from his lips to the Snugli.
So here is our Santa picture of the year. These were taken by my best friend in our Ward at our Ward Christmas party. I just wasn't thinking and forgot to bring our camera, so luckily Cariss had hers. Isabel was just a little uncomfortable with sitting on his lap. She knows who Santa is, and she always yell out "there's Santa!" when ever she sees a picture of him. For some reason she was just really nervous. Ian was completely out of it. The last picture of Ian and Shaun we had to take because Ian didn't wake up a bit and sort of just slumped over when Shaun handed him down to me from the stage. He is just so cute!
Izzy went bowling for the first time tonight. Shaun's friend from work invited us to go bowling with him and the Bowling place had this metal ramp for Isabel to lift the ball up on and then she just pushes it down. She had an absolute blast!! She kept getting down on the floor and yell for the ball to keep going, then whether she hit one pin or all 10 pins she would jump up and down and want to give high fives. She just loved it!
Our camera isn't doing our tree justice!! Oh well, it's actually very beautiful and simple in real person. It's a mixture of red, gold, and a bit of a peach color.
It has been a long while since we've posted. Here's why. You all know by now that Shaun has orders to report to Ft. Benning, Georgia. He is to be an instructor of some sort in a Basic Camp 2 kind of thing. It is an actual requirement that Shaun pass all physical requirements since he will have to be able to run and keep up the pace of twenty year old. So because of this we are frantically trying to get the house fixed, staged, and marketable. Let me tell you, we have never been so stressed!! We put our for sale sign up in front, and crossed our fingers. We were really hoping to not use a realtor since they take such a big chunk of our hard earned profit, but the house market is so bad right now we were starting to think we were going to have to. Ah, but wait! Our next door neighbor's Mom saw we were selling, and wanted to know how much, and if she could see the house. Our neighbor's Aunt is coming back from Guam to live in El Paso and needs a house. While the Mom was touring our home she had her sister on the phone and Shaun heard her say in Spanish how beautiful and fabulous our home was. So, long story short, the sister asked Shaun if he could kind of hold onto the house for us until she can get a loan at our High bid amount! We won't find out till end of this week, or later if she is approved. So say your prayers for us because we certainly need them.
