Lucy's Blessing

We decided to bless Lucy while we were in Utah forThanksgiving to ensure that everyone would be able to participate in her special day. It was a fabulous day for our little family. She was blessed in my mom's ward (the ward I grew up in) and then we went to Brian's parents for a lovely luncheon after. Brian did a great job with the blessing and my mom made her a beautiful gown. It was a great day and we were so grateful that our families were there to share it with us!

My mom proudly displaying her handy work

Our little fam

The women in my family-AWESOME!!
My cute girlie girls
The star of the show

Baking Day

The Wednesday before Thanksgiving is always Baking Day in my family. My mom, my sisters, my girls, and my niece all get together to bake the pies and rolls that will be devoured the following day. We make the same kind of pies every year-pumpkin, banana cream, and the infamous Razzleberry. In fact this year we looked at the date on the newspaper article where we got the Razzleberry recipe and it is 14 years old. This a long going tradition that is one of my favorites. I am especially grateful that my girls are able to participate and that they enjoy baking day as much as I do.
The next generation of Baking Day participants

Leah rolling out the pie crust

Lucy's first Baking Day!
Annie mixing the pumkin pie filling

Afternoon with Annie

Leah had a birthday party at a friend's house this afternoon and Brian was at a school meeting, so Annie, Lucy and I went to the Fall Festival at Mountain's Edge park. It was pretty low key, but Annie got to do some fun things. She danced on the stage, jumped in the bounce house, did a cake walk, played a couple games, won a coupon for a free ice cream cone, and ate a sno-cone. It was quite an enjoyable afternoon. She is a super fun girl!

Santa Claus is Coming to Town

On Friday night we went down to Town Center to see Santa arrive. He came into town on a horse drawn sleigh and he helped light the gigantic Christmas tree that was there. He then went into his house to greet the children (for a nomial fee of course). There was even snow. In fact I had to chuckle because I was standing on fake grass looking at a fake tree, with fake snowflakes falling on us. At least they try to create the image of a white Christmas here. I was afraid that we were going to miss the big event, but Brian did some awesome (and probably somewhat illegal) driving to get us there in time. It was a fun night, but I have to admit that I felt the festivites were a bit premature considering that it is November 15th and we haven't even celebrated Thanksgiving yet. I guess the Christmas season is just around the corner and I need to face the facts and get prepared!

Waiting for Santa to arrive

The big guy makes his appearance Leah and Annie pose at the base of the tree

Strawberry Jam

We did a chocolate fountain at a wedding on Saturday night and we had a bunch of strawberries left over, so I decided to make some freezer jam. It turned out super yummy. Maybe you can sense how good it really was by the following photos.

Needless to say they were a sticky mess and had to get in the shower. I am just glad they liked the jam so much.

One month

Lucy is one month old! I can't believe how fast the time is going by. I wish that it would slow done a bit (maybe I should just slow down a bit-yeah right). She went to her check-up today and all is well. Here are her stats:

Weight-8 lbs 13 ozs (50th percentile)
Height-21.25 inches (50th percentile)

Head-37.5 cm (50th percentile)

So she is pretty much average. I always worry about the head measurement because my kids have large noggins and the doctors always seem concerned and want to have a neurology consult done. If Brian was at the appointment they would look at his head and say, "Oh nevermind about that consult. The gigantic head seems to be genetic." Lucy will probably have to deal with this later in her life, but for now we are pleased with being average. She is getting to be more animated. These are pictures that I took of her when we got home from the doctor. She was pretty happy considering she got a shot.

Mom,

I just wanted to let you know that she was not left in her car seat for very long after we got home. I snapped some pictures and got her right out.:-)

Joy

This past weekend, my mom came for a visit. We had a fabulous time. On Friday we went and saw High School Musical 3. It was awesome. We were the only ones in the theater, which is totally the way to go when watching a movie with kids (even Lucy attended). I will even admit that I got a little emotional during the graduation scene. We missed seeing my sister on the big screen, but we enjoyed ourselves none the less. We did some shopping on Saturday and then she got to come with me to book club that night. It was a great time. We read the book Water for Elephants (which I highly recommend) and we went to the circus and saw some great acts. Sunday was the Primary program and Leah did an excellent job with her part. I was glad that my mom was here to see her perform. All in all it was a great time. In fact Annie woke up yesterday and the first thing out of her mouth was "Joy?" Usually her first word in the morning is "breakfast", so she was obviously impressed with grandma Joy. Thanks mom for coming down. It was a great weekend!

Halloween

This year we had a great Halloween. Our trunk-or-treat was super fun. Leah invited her little friends from across the street to come and they did. We passed out lots of candy and saw some great costumes. The best part of the holiday was our surprise. This year Nevada Day happened to fall on Halloween, so since Brian didn't have school we decided weeks ago that it would be fun to drive up to Ogden for the 3 day weekend and surprise our families. This was especially exciting because there were so many who hadn't met Lucy yet and they got a chance to get acquainted.