Whirlwind of Holidays

Its been a crazy ride this past month. So many things going on, as is usual in December. This is going to be a very long post (mostly pictures) due to a compilation of all the events. ha ha. 

First, was my beautiful moms birthday. For her birthday and Christmas present I made a play date for us. We went and saw my cousins new baby, went to Gardner village and did some window shopping, ate some yummy food, went to City Creek for a few minutes, and then I took her to see "The Nutcracker" with Ballet West. It was a fun day and we loved the show. 

Me and my momma are SILLY! Love her!

This was supposed to be a smiley picture, but she pulled a funny face on me. ha ha .

Brailey has been growing up so much over this past month. Her personality is showing more and more and I love that she is so energetic. She was such a hoot over the holidays.

"Let me in Mama!"

Cutest little face ever!

Wearing daddy's hat. She even put it on by herself!

Watching "Santa Claus is coming to Town"

Brailey wouldn't take her eyes off the t.v. when we were watching all our Christmas shows. We watched Frosty the Snowman, The Grinch, Rudolph the Red nose Reindeer, Cricket on the Hearth, and White Christmas. (Not all in one day ha ha). She loved them all. She didn't even look up at my phone. It was fun to cuddle with her. 

We enjoyed our work Christmas party. We had an awesome dinner and had fun watching Brailey roam around the tables saying hi to everybody. All our coworkers loved watching her get excited about crawling everywhere. 

Then on Christmas Eve we had our annual "Wayment" party. We played games, ate a good meal, and opened presents. This year, instead of pajamas (because Brailey already has so many) we decided to have her open a book. We got her "The Night Before Christmas" and I plan to make it a tradition to read it every year on that night. We also did a family gift and we plan to do a disney movie each year. This year we got "Brave." This also happened to be the day that Brailey turned 11 months old! Only 1 month away and I will have a 1 year old. I can't believe its been that long already. 

Everyone at our family Party!

 

 We always play the "candy bar game" and just after I won a couple of candies Brailey jumped right on them. :) 

"All mine!"

"And this too!"

 CHRISTMAS MORNING! She went straight for the hippo! :)

"I want a hippopotamus for Christmas... only Hippopotamus will do..."

She loved the wrapping paper! And did great opening her presents that morning.

 After waking up and opening most of our presents at the Wayments, we got ready and went to the Pitchford home and finished opening the rest of our presents there (so both grandparents could see Brailey open up some presents). She got pretty bored there. She was more excited about the dogs toys then her own, so I had to help her open up her presents in the end. 

I got lots of cute new clothes! YAY! 

Love this smiley, blue eyed girl. Such a beauty.

 After eating breakfast and cleaning up our presents, we went to the Pitchford/Smith Christmas party. We ate some more delicious food, listened to some beautiful songs sung by our cousins and sisters and opened gifts and just relaxed. Brailey had fun playing and crawling and climbing and eating. 

So happy on Christmas!

Love this little munchkin of mine. She is so adorable.

The day after Christmas Jordan and I went snowboarding with Jamie and Amberly at Powder Mountain and it was SOO much fun. I want to go again now. We were super sore at the end of the day, but it was worth it. There was tons of fresh powder snow and not a ton of people due to the fact that it was snowing. The next day we went shopping with our Christmas money and later we went to see "Les Miserables". It was AMAZING! Very sad story, but such a good one. I loved it and want to see it again, that is how good it was. 

The day after that we went to IFLY and had a blast. Its a lot of fun and not as scary as I thought it would be. I figured it would give me that falling feeling, but I never got it and then we decided to go to TGIFridays for dinner and Jordans parents decided to join us. 

Brailey was so silly for our waitress. 

Brailey ended up having a fever of 102.8 for one of the days. All she did was want to cuddle.( I loved that part, but not the sick part... not even sure what she was sick with cause there were no other symptoms) Overall, it was an EXTREMELY great vacation and it was very much needed. I needed time with our families especially with my husband and I needed the break from everyday life.... no work... and lots of playtime. (Yes I consider shopping part of my playtime ha ha)

ABOUT BRAILEY:

Brailey is now 11 months old and is super crazy, but in a good way. 

• She climbs everything, wants to walk everywhere instead of crawl, but she still has to use my hands.
• She can stand up on her own without holding onto anything for periods at a time.
• She smiles a ton, but also cries alot. 
• She gets into everything still and finds the oddest things amusing. 
• She clicks her tongue and is fascinated with her tongue. She licks her lips and sticks it out and grabs it. Its so silly. 
• She likes to point at things. Usually when she does point she mumbles something... to me its sounds like she is saying "whats that?" And then I tell her what it is she is pointing at. 
• She is getting her "eye" teeth in and that has been a trial. The other teeth were hard on her, but not nearly this hard. She has had a difficult time cutting these ones. 
• Her hair is getting so long, but for some reason it grows mostly on the top and in the middle, so we do her hair in a fohawk a lot. 
• She still loves necklaces and most jewelry for that matter. She will put it in her mouth and keep it that way all day if I let her. 
• She loves trying our food and I usually give her little bites of whatever we are eating, but her favorite snack (which also happens to be my favorite) is Goldfish crackers. If she see's me eating some she will crawl really fast over to me and start reaching for them. If they are too far away to reach then she motions her hand in a "come" or "give me" sort of way. I think she learned that from when I would use my hands to motion her to come to me. ha ha. Smart girl. 
• She uses a straw cup now for her juice and loves that!
• She can crawl up stairs, but I am trying to teach her how to crawl down them. No success yet, but she mostly knows not to try and crawl up them without me or daddy behind her. 
• She jibberjabbers to herself all the time. Usually saying dada, papa, baba, mama, but occasionally she will mix her lettering around. I can't wait til she starts talking. 
• She loves leaning backwards and doing "flips" We might have a tumbling girl on our hands. 

She is such a cutie and we love her spunky personality. She is so full of life and love. I am so excited for her future. :)

Daddy went a bit crazy with pictures below, but these are the many faces of Brailey. :)

For New years, we visited some friends and then took Brailey home for bed. Even after having a late nap she still wanted to go to bed early. So by about 10 she was in bed. Jordan and I stayed up and played games and at about one minute from midnight we went outside, listened to the fireworks and rang in the new year with a kiss. :) Maybe next year we will be able to party, but I loved being able to just relax and enjoy the time. My biggest new years resolution is to keep striving to be a better mom and wife.

Love to all and hope all your holidays were as good and memorable as mine! :)

Christmas Beginnings 2012

Well we aren't even a full day into December yet and we have already crossed off a few things on our list to do this year for Christmas. Number one on our list was going to Temple Square to see the lights. Number two on our list was to have Brailey meet Santa AND the Grinch! Number three was to get all our decorations up and even a little tree for Brailey. Done, Done and Done. Here are the pics. 

This is the huge tree at City Creek! I have never seen one so big. ha ha. :)

Brailey chillin with some Polar Bears.

Temple Square fountain. I love this scene! It was even more beautiful when it was lit up, but I didn't get a pic then because too many people were crowded around it.

Us in front of some pretty bright lights. Brailey hasn't decided what to think of them. lol. She preferred to watch the water fountains and was very entertained by those instead. 

Brailey with Santa at Home Depot. Believe it or not this wasn't her first encounter meeting him. She is NOT a fan. The first time she met him (at City Creek) she was so scared of him and just cried which surprised me because she is usually happy to go to anyone. I think its the beard. ha. This time however when she met him again she went to him and started to fuss a little, but she did better. 

She didn't know how to respond to The Grinch!  She just stared at him... and stared... and stared.  But she never did cry. ha ha.

Me and The Grinch! (My friend Scotty) 

Our Christmas tree. I love Blue and Silver together. :)

"The stockings all hung from the chimney with care" well its defnitely not a chimney, but its a fireplace.  It will do for now. I still have to get one for Brailey though. 

My cute little santa and nutcracker. 

Hard to tell, but the lights are on. I just didn't want to wait to take the picture at night.

And this is Braileys very own Christmas tree. Its only about 2 feet tall, but I know she will love it growing up because I loved having one for my room as well.  I just decided to do a colorful tree. Pinks, Greens, and Blues. :)

Her other mini-me Christmas tree. This was my very first one that my parents gave me and I wanted her to have it. :)

Her Christmas decorated room! The lights on the wall blink and she loves to watch them. She also likes her Christmas Angel and Christmas bear. I had to put everything up on her dresser because she likes them a bit too much and wants to pull them, climb them, or eat them. 

So there is our most recent events in the Pitchford home. But this past month was packed with so many other things that we enjoyed. Unfortunately, I didn't get pictures for them. Hopefully I will be better at taking pics this next month. Lots of fun things coming up! I will definitely keep you posted because Brailey turns 11 months old on Christmas Eve Day. :)