Christmas week 2012!

Demcember 22

It was Jazlyn's 2nd birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese's! Raquel has been my best friend since I was 5 years old. It is so awesome that we both have little girls now. :) Looking forward to them growing up and becoming friends too!

December 23

It was Kristen's birthday! She moved a few weeks ago to San Francicso but already came back to visit for her birthday and spend the holidays with her family! lol. I'm really going to miss her! We had dinner at AZ88 to celebrate her special day. :)

Kristen's sister Melissa and I

 

December 24

During the day, we delivered Christmas gifts to our neighbors. :) On the mason jars had the verse John 3:16. We love our neighbors and want to share Jesus and the real reason for the season with them. We believe that God put us in this neighborhood for a reason and we want to make a positive impact while living here.

Gifts we RECEIVED from our neighbors! The best tamales I've ever had and a homemade bundt cake! We also got some homemade gingerbread cookies (not pictured). We have GREAT neighbors! :)

At Christmas Eve service at our church CCV

 

We spent Christmas Eve at my parents' house...

My brother was visting from San Francicso!

Abigail and my dad :)

My mom modeling one of her Christmas gifts hehe.

 

We got the PS3 Move! Yay!

 

December 25

 Christmas morning at home. Abigail opening her first Christmas present. :)

 

We spend Christmas day with Jim's side of the family... this is my favorite picture of Abby and Kenzie on Christmas! :)

 

I worked on Christmas night. To make it a little less depressing, I planned a white elephant gift exchange and potluck with my co-workers! :)

 

December 30

 

For Christmas, my sis-in-law gifted us little boxes of Cracker Jacks with a note attached saying they were treating the family to a day at Crackerjax! So fun! (Even if I had just gotten off work that morning and slept a total of 2 hours... lol worth it!)

Family

Aww mommies and our girls!





Picture post

This past week in pictures. :)

 

We updated Abigail's room a bit. We moved her monogram frame to above her crib, added a shelf above her changing table and found this rug at Target for 50% off the original price and just so happens that the colors in the rug match her room perfectly!

 

7 month picture with the birthday bear at Berda and Papa's house! :) They do this for all the grandchildren... take a picure every month from birth to 12 months and gift all the pictures in a big frame on their 1st birthday! Can't waity to get Abigail's, see how much she's grown and hang it up in our home!

First time eating apples!

Lunch with my co-workers Nadia and Christina (and Christina's son Mili)

First time Abigail in a restaurant high chair! (and thank you to my sis-in-law for the high chair/shopping cart cover!) Seriously, having a sis to give us all her baby hand-me-downs is the best!

Aww Abigail wih Nadia! You look good with a baby, Nadia! ;)

First time eating peas! Didn't really like it or any veggies she's tried yet for that matter. :/

 

Jim had a tonsillectomy. This was in pre-op, right before they took him back for surgery. He is now recovering at home, nursing my hubby back to health... lots popsicples, soup and love!

Carrots, bananas and pears... oh my!

We are motivated more than ever to get Abigail eating solids on a consistent/daily basis. She is just shy of 7 months (will be on the 8th) and she is still only drinking breastmilk for her nutrition. Part of me feels guilty, like I should've started to introduce solids earlier, but then I think- the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends babies should be exclusively breastfed for the first 6 months of life.. so then I don't feel too behind. But I am also worried because since her only source of nutrition has been my milk, I am now running low! :( We have been going through our frozen stash since I am just not producing enough to keep up and now there are only about 10-15 5oz frozen bags left... I am trying to pump more, but I still fee like I am not catching up. :( Today we finally had a breakthrough and Abigail actually enjoyed her solid foods! So far Abigail has tried rice and oatmeal cereal (neither of which she cared for), avocado (which she seemed to eat half of what was given the 2nd time but since has lost interest in avocado), carrots (first time today, did not like them), banana (likes them if they are very ripe) and pear (first time today, likes them too). I read you should only introduce 1 food at a time, at a rate of every several days, but since she didn't like the foods she's already tried, I tried a couple new foods today. I am hoping tomorrow will continue to go well when it comes to feeding Abigail solids. Here are some super cute pictures from today of Abigail eating!

Breakfast = carrots. The only way she took some carrots was if she drank a little bit of her bottle right after eat spoonful. Otherwise, she would just spit everything out. :/ Will try carrots again tomorrow...

 

Lunch = banana. She loved this ripe banana! The first day we bought the bananas (few days ago) I tried feeding her some and she did not like it. I guess it wasn't ripe enough for her yet. I'm glad she finally took a liking to something that was a solid!

 

Dinner = pear. Since she liked the banana from today, I assumed that she would also like the pear. And I was right! ;)

Abigail admiring all the pretty lights and ornaments on our tree tonight. :)

Abigail's playroom and Kristen's going away party

Our upstairs loft area we are turning into Abgail's playroom. :) It used to be a secondary family room per say, although we hardly ever used it. It had a couch and some hand-me-down furniture, but since we had a nicer family room and bigger tv downstairs, that room was rarely used. Now that Abigail is here and needs some space to play, we are converting it into her playroom! We moved out the bulky furniture and went to Ikea for a smaller-scale tv stand and some other miscellaneous items. I love Ikea!

Classic Jim. At Ikea picking up our new tv stand hehe.

Abby enjoying her new play area and Jasper posing for the picture :)

She is pulling herself up all on her own now! That girl amazes me!

 

This morning we had a garage sale. Since we cleared out the loft area, I thought, might as well declutter our whole home! The rest we are donating to Goodwill. Oh man... clearing the clutter from our home and getting ready for the garage sale this week was waaay more work than I had anticipated! Especially with a very active and mobile little 6 month old!

our garage sale... isn't our home purdy? :)

 

Last night was Kristen's going away party. I am going to miss her so much! She really was the glue that kept all our friends together. She is so good at staying in touch and scheduling time to hang out and stay connected as friends. First, our dear friend Nikki moves and now Kristen! :( I finally found a close group of girlfriends and then they all move away... only Kelly and I are left. I need to do a better job of staying in touch. Good friends are hard to find!

At Kristen's going away party :(

Abby creeping in the pic in the background lol

Aww Abigail and Keenan meeting and playing for the first time :)

Abigail is glowing! lol