Christmas Updates

Hello everyone! Alot has been going on with our family over the last month or so, and its time for some updates. First things first...Rusty and I are officially home owners! We closed on our home on the 10th of November 2009 and moved in four days later. We could not of made any of it work without Rusty's parents. They dropped everything and came up to help...well help is the wrong word, they did everything! I have been working like mad with the holidays being (obviously) our busiest time, and we just didn't have the time to dedicate to moving, but we wanted to move. Sandy and Fernlee came up, packed, cleaned, and unpacked two houses in two days! We love and appreciate them so much. We love our new home. If you haven't seen it yet, pictures don't do it justice, but here is a snowy pic I took today. It has been great times getting to dress a home that is ours. If you haven't been over yet, then come on over


Other things going on: I have been working alot alot alot. As a retail manager, I am working over 60 hour weeks....I am counting the days until Christmas is over so I can take a much needed vacation. I recently had a birthday, which now makes me 27 years young....Cambria and Rusty gave me a new ipod, its awesome! I spend alot of time reading as of late. I just finished a book called Hunger Games...it was amazing and I instantly ordered the sequel from Amazon.

Rusty is doing great as well, he is still working for BMW, and is rewarded by the work he does daily. I am very proud of the accomplishments he has made, and of how hard he works. He loves to go shooting one of this impressive firearms, (I think its a good stress reliever) and he also enjoys playing COD online with all his friends and family. Him, Dane and Mike have had many EARLY mornings spent shouting things at the tv.

Now onto little Cambria. She has just turned into the most precious little girl. She is walking all over the place, if you can believe it. She is such a joy. Cambria is about 13.5 months old, she still only has her two little bottom beaver teeth. I think the other top two teeth will pop down any day now. She took her first official walk across the whole room on the evening of thanksgiving. We all clapped and shouted for joy. She was so proud of herself, and we are so proud of her. She loves to dance, her and Rusty dance around to Lady GaGa songs, its so precious. I'll have to post a video of that. She likes to sing little songs, and lot of the time they are incoherent but she just has a great time singing them anyway. She is talking more and more everyday. She says mama, dada, doggy, Abby(abba abba), Melanie(Melnee), baby(beebee) and lots more. And speaking of babies, I have spent the last year wondering and wondering what Cambria's first "thing" would be. And we've finally got it! She loves her "babies" She'll tote them around and love/squeeze them to pieces. She has several of these babies. Her little dolly uncle Clint gave her, "howard"(if you've ever tended Cambria then you know who this it), "Snowflake"(an early Christmas gift that Cambria opened when I wasn't looking)this was a gift from grandma Sandy, and several others. She loves her babies!

All in all our little family is doing great. We are happy and healthy and wishing everyone a very safe and merry Christmas!



But speaking of Christmas.....
a couple of weeks ago, me and my sisters with all the nieces and nephews had a little photo shoot. This was for a christmas card that my mom wanted to do. The next post shows just some of all the many many pictures taken. And for my sisters(in law too) that want copies, I've got them!

Christmas 2009

Birthday Dr. Visit

I simply cannot believe that this little one is a year old! She is the cutest darn thing ever...and she makes every minute of our life a joy. We are so blessed to have her in our lives.

So a few days ago Cambria had her one year follow up at the doctor's office. She had to have FOUR shots...ouch:(.........and had all her measurements taken. Here is how she measured up:

Height: 30.25" 83rd%
Weight: 19.75lbs 27th%
Head Cir.: 17.3" 19th%

She's a tall and thin little squirt...takes after her dad in that. I thought she would definitely weigh over 20lbs, but with all the crazy play time and running around she does with her favorite cousin Abby, she is burning those calories like crazy! Doctor says she is doing great, and is very healthy. Other than slight seasonal dry skin, she is perfect perfect perfect. She was so cute during the dr. visit, running around and yelling "DA DA!" to everyone, and also screaming "BOO!" cuz that is her newest favorite thing. She is such a ham! Love you so so so much Cambria:)

Happy Halloween!

Cousins: Lainey(Little Bo Peep), Abby(Queen Clarion, queen of tink fairies:)Cambria(Tinkerbell), Nathan(Buzz Lightyear). At this point in the evening, they had all pretty much had it:)

Abby and Cambria, They look alike don't they? So beautiful:)
Cambria showing us her tongue...she is learning to click her tongue so she does it all the time now.
Mommy and Cambria, I was where's waldo, and she was Tinkerbell. I forgot my Waldo glasses for the photo opp!
Cambria was Tinkerbell for Halloween 2009. This was her second Halloween, although last year she was only a few days old. This was her first Halloween to go out and trick or treat, she really didn't understand what was going on, but it was still a fun experience:)

"The Big One" Happy Birthday Cambria!

Cambria playing with her music table. She loves these tables, the singing and the lights makes her laugh:)

First Birthday cake! She really liked the cake, and could not get it in her mouth fast enough!

The cake before she dug in.
Abby and Cambria getting ready to blow out her candles.
Her homemade cake by mommy, and her candles said "The Big 1"
Reaching for daddy and opening up presents.
Mommy helping Cambria open presents
This outfit was from Aunt Stacey, she got very excited about it!
Music table from mommy and daddy.
Abby helping open up presents.
Cambria having a pre-party snack:)
lunch time!
Cambria's cake bib. The theme for her party was "the big one" it was so cute and so much fun!
The cakes that mommy made. I made, rolled and colored the fondant all by myself, it was a learning experience for sure, but totally worth it. The middle brown and poka-dotted cake was her personal cake to dig into for her big moment:)
Her other cake, both big cakes were from a a number 1 mold. They both turned out very cute, and tasted even better!

Some Of Cambria

Holy cow, isn't his precious? She is looking like a little girl....and less like a baby...so sad:( Cambria loves to sit in her chair while I curl her hair. This is a big cheese smile after I was finished. We were getting ready to go to two wedding receptions.
Cambria's new favorite toy is a toothbrush. She loves the bristles on her gums.
Just a cute little girl having her snack.
Cambria showing us her food! Thanks for the visual honey:)

*Updates*

Wow! There has been alot going on lately. We have still been very dedicated in finding a house. We've had alot of drama, but have not wanted to give up. We've put offers on 4 houses now, and have either had problems with short sales, being a day too late, and people thinking their house is worth more than it really is. Its been a trial in our lives for sure, but we know its the time for us to FINALLY make a house a home....permanently. We've finally settled down and now we have Cambria, so we are ready to buy a house. And hopefully its this house we put the offer in on today. It is easily the best house we've seen thus far. Here are some pics.

On a totally different note, we have a little girl in this house that is about to have a first birthday. I cannot believe its been year, but at the same time it also seems like i've known this little girl my whole life. We are so blessed to have her, and we both know that she is the special spirit we had waited six years to have. We would do anything for her, and in turn she gives us more than we deserve every day. Don't forget that along with 1st birthdays, come 1st birthday parties! Invites are going out soon:)

Okay back to the house:
This is the house we put the offer in on today. Its a foreclosure, which is good news cuz you get a great deal(almost 100k less than it sold for 18 months ago) and the process moves very fast. It is an amazing house. It has everything that rusty and I both wanted, and this is the first house to have all of those things. And really, all Rusty wanted was a 3 car garage, and this is just that! Plus it has one of those great utilty sinks in the garage, with hot water AND it has tons of great built in cabinets for his storage. One thing I wanted, but hadn't been able to find...until now...is a walk out basement. Even though there are no pictures of the back yard here, it is a great space. Off to the right of the house you can see the RV parking slab, that slab has like a six foot drop off...with some amazing landscaping boulder stuff happening. There is lots of grass as well which is great. Because of how the land slopes down, it enables the house to have a walkout basement. awesome.
This is the family room, awesome fire place, and out that back window there is a huge deck.
View of kitchen from living room, that stairway off to the right there goes upstairs to an awesome bonus room...it'll make a great place to shoo the kids off to play:) Love all the vaulted ceilings.
Kitchen view, beautiful granite counters and island, and maple cabinets. Off to the right is a huge pantry, a good size mudroom/laundry room, the basement stairway, and the entrance to the garage.
This is the bonus room upstairs, it is huge and even has two closets. Contrary to how the pictures look, it has plenty of head room:)