Christmas Tree

Finally I have my Christmas tree. I love having a real tree. There is just something about it I cant quite explain. Yes I will have to keep it watered but thats not hard to do. We found it today out side a little grocery store for only $25! You can't find a Concolor Fir for that much. It is 7 feet high and that would usually go for $55! We were so excited to find it. We love the Concolor trees because the needles smell like oranges : ). It was fun tying it down to the car and trying to carry it up 3 flights of stairs to get it into the apartment : ). Its a lot bigger than it looked when it was at the store. I guess since it has been up the branches have been able the fluff out and wow is it wide!!!! I still love it though. Navie doesn't really know what to think about it. We used colored lights this year so she would have plenty of stimulation. We were going to make them blink but that was just too much. Next year will be the year for fun. We will be running all over the place try to keep Navie away from it.

Sorry the picture is blurry. My camera makes everything yellow and blurry when there is low light. You can still see how big it is though : )

Chatter Box

Everything is going really well for us right now. The waiting that Cris has done for a day route has finally paid off. He starts a new route on January 3rd! I'm so excited because now he can be home in the evenings. It will be so nice to have dinner at a normal time. Plus with winter on its way, I don't have to worry about him driving in the dark. His route should be getting done around the time it gets dark and then all he has to do is come home.
Its hard to do but I got a video of Navie talking. I'm sorry it is at a weird angle but I can't have her see the camera. As soon as she sees it, she goes quite and just stares : ) We also video taped her talking to the tv this morning : ) She was watching "Sid the Science Kid". It amazes me how much she has grown and changed over the last 2 almost 3 months. It will be really strange when she actually starts talking!

Snow!!!!!!!!!!

It's snowing!!!!!!!!! I'm so excited. I know it's not even Thanksgiving but now I'm really ready for Christmas!

Little Hands

Navie is really making some new and exciting developments. She has now learned that her hands are attached! It is so cute to see her stare at them : ) Here is a little video of Navie grabbing one of her toys and yes, I love to baby talk : )

The Best Christmas Present EVER!!!!!!!!

Ok, so I figured out what my Christmas present is this year and I feel horrible! Last night I got onto Cris' email to download a picture of Navie and me at the hospital that his parents took and I saw another email confirming a studio appointment at Sears. The cat was out of the bag. Cris was so disappointed that I figured it out. It was supposed to be a surprise but I ruined it. What a surprise it would have been. He keeps saying the same line over and over again from the movie "A Christmas Story" that we were watching last night....."I'm sure the guilt you feel is more than any punishment that you could receive" and boy is he right! I feel so bad that I ruined the surprise but I love the pictures!!! He knows me so well. I love him so much. Here are a few of the pictures that he had taken. He got me a really big portrait size of the first picture in black and white. That one I won't open until Christmas : )

I know.... I know

Yes, I know its not Christmas yet but I had to put up a new Christmas background and no I did not put up the tree. This is the tree from last year. We are getting a real tree this year and using colored lights so I have to wait longer to put it up and decorate it. The more I think about Christmas the more excited I get. It doesn't help that Cris keeps telling me that he has a really good present for me this year and he won't give me any hints. He knows how much I love to guess presents and how much it drives me crazy when I can't figure them out : ) That's ok though because I have a good one for him too.
Cris has been working a lot of overtime the past few weeks. I miss having him at home but after getting the medical bills from having Navie we could really use the extra money. Cris is trying to get a day route at work and it looks like he might get one. He has to bid on the routes and it goes by seniority. Hopefully there aren't too many people bidding. It would be so nice to have him home at a decent hour instead of 9:00 pm.
Navie is doing great. She is full of smiles and loves to talk : ) Her next appointment is Dec. 4th. I think that she is at least 9 lbs. now. she is growing so fast.

Five Generations

Top: Great Grandma Young, Grandma Schaeffer, Mommy
Bottom: Great Great Grandma Gauss, baby Navie
November 2, 2008

Yesterday was a very busy for us. Of course we went to church but on top of that we had three different parties to go to.... a baby shower for our really good friend, Kamryn's birthday party, and Will's birthday party. It was a long day for little Navie (who is now 2 months old). We were so tired even with the extra hour of sleep from day light savings time. It was a good day though. The baby shower was so cute! I really wish that we could have stayed longer but Kamryn's birthday party overlapped with it. I had to make sure that we got to Kamryn's party because Navie was able to meet her Great Grandma Young and her Great Great Grandma Gauss. Its not that often that you are able to get 5 generations together. It was even more special because it was 5 generations of all women. It was nice to see everyone on my mom's side of the Family again. Most of them I haven't seen since our wedding!
Will's party was cute. He just turned 1 year old and had his first taste at cake. Sharla made him a little cake and put it in front of him on his highchair. He wasn't really sure what to do with it but he got the idea and I'm sure you can imagine the mess he made : )