Hope everyone had a great one...

We had a great Christmas here and I hope everyone else did too! I have a lot of pics of Christmas but I wanted to post these first ; )

These are from my nephew's birthday party at a bowling alley. Mia decided she wanted to bowl.



Jenny giving her some pointers.



I want this ball!

Mama reindeer and Mia reindeer



still reindeers.



now trying to make the dog a reindeer - he wasn't very amused.



my beauty queen reindeer



a running reindeer

ok, she's done!

Almost Christmas...

It's almost Christmas! We haven't really had much going on...just getting ready for Christmas. We have also been getting Mia's new room ready. Mia has never slept in her room and I am not sure when she will - hopefully soon : ) So we need a nursery for the new baby and Mia needs to have a room set up for the homestudy even if she doesn't sleep there. So we have been getting that ready. We also recently got Mia a toddler bed and she is sleeping in it but she is still right next to our bed. It is still an improvement and we are working towards her sleeping independently!

On other Mia news...in case you didn't know she is the sweetest little girl EVER!!! She has been saying I love you for a while, but now she will come up, give us a hug, a kiss, and say I love you! She is also saying, "thank you mama." "bless you mama." I could just eat her up!

Onto some Mia cuteness...


This is an outfit Mia wore last year too...ch-che-check out below.



Here is my baby in the same outfit.

check out her purse. She gets attached to an object such as this purse and will carry it around like a lovey.

blurry smiley picture



trying to hide from me and the camera...



still trying to avoid me by pretending to look at the cd's.



look at Mia's Christmas Pj's



oh, I am so tired. Take me to bed.



Whatcha' are you looking at?



my beautiful hair....that my mom straightened. Look how long it is!



give me the camera NOW!



I said, "NNNOOOWWW"



Now I am happy because I am going to Home Depot.



Mommy is trying to take pics of me while driving.

I try to look away but she won't stop...



stop taking my damn picture...



"Give ME THE DAMN CAMERA"



Look I am in a baby cart - that is what she calls shopping carts.



Wow, look wood, lots and lots of wood.



wood is boring...



but my hair is pretty!



Mia wanted me to take a pic of the pillow.

This is our old dog, Rudy or boo boo. He is 70 pounds and a chicken - if the smoke detector is going off he FREAKS out! One time we went away for the day and left the door open for him so he could go in and out. We came home after being gone all day and Rudy wasn't in the house we thought that maybe he had gotten out of the yard. We went and looked around the yard calling for him and he finally came out from behind our shed. Her was clearly traumatized. It took us a few minutes but we realized that he was hiding behind the shed because the smoke dectector was beeping because it needed a new battery! The pic is him trying to sit on Jenny's lap because a smoke detector was beeping!

Christmas past and now...

I have been a terrible blogger, yet again. No excuse here except I painted a room. I should take pictures of the room, but I really haven't taken many pictures lately so I will save that for another date. We have finished out classes and we are just waiting for our references to send their forms back and then we can get started on our homestudy. Other than that we are just getting ready for Christmas - I am all done shopping we scaled down this year and only spent a little over $100 on Mia and I am so proud. We got quite a few things off craigslist and ebay so she is still getting some good things including her first bike! Jenny and I aren't buying for us until after Christmas because we both want expensive things. I am hoping I will get my Nikon D40 : )

Mia is doing new things everyday and this is such a fun age! However did you know 2 year olds never stop talking and they are really bossy?!? Some times I just laugh at how bossy she is and how we just do what she wants. I just said to Jenny tonight that I can hardly believe it has been 2 years since we first her on our visit trip.

My baby had a call on her bow phone last year while we were doing our pics for our Christmas cards.



Isn't she cute.



We thought maybe she would want to sit on Santa's lap....she didn't. I think she thought if she didn't make eye contact he would just go away.




a close up of how sad she was!

I've been tagged twice

by Samantha. I wasn't ignoring the first one but I can really think of 7 interesting/weird things about me but I am going to try!

1. My nickname used to be Rocky when I was a kid.
2. I am a total neat freak
3. I hate it when Jenny steals my friends
4. I didn't know I had a big nose until I was 21
5. I hate to be touched when I am sleeping
6. When I was much skinnier my tail bone stuck out REALLY far and Jenny said I must have had a tail when I was born and they cut it off. So I actually asked my mom.
7. I hate large crowds and they make me really grumpy.

Ok, those 7 really stink, but I am not all that interesting : )

10 things I am grateful for:

1. my family
2. my house
3. our health
4. my animals
5. my internet friends cuz I don't have any real friends
6. my computer
7. that we get to go out this Saturday without Mia
8. Breyer's chocolate ice cream
9. Mia's new playroom in the basement
10.being able to adopt another baby

I need to tag 5 people so I tag, Kelly, Donna, Kathy, Becky, and Vanessa