Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas to everyone! We had a good Christmas Morning at our house that started a little later than is traditional. I usually wake up at six on Christmas Morning and wake anyone else that I am spending Christmas with at this hour too. But since I had Lilybelle, I didn't want to wake her up until she woke herself up (it just seems so wrong to wake a sleeping baby). I didn't have to wait too long, just an extra hour, but it was so hard! After we got her up, changed, and fed; we opened presents. Lilybelle was very interested in her presents and the dogs enjoyed their treats.

Tim feeding Lilybelle before we opened presents

Sunny after his Christmas treat

Sophie begging for her Christmas treat

Lilybelle opening her presents

Lilybelle playing with her toy from Santa

Busy Weekend and a leaky pipe

Our little family had a busy weekend. It started on Saturday with Tim's Grandpa's family holiday gathering. In order to get ready for being gone for a few hours, Tim took Sophie and Lilybelle over to play with Darby and I took Sunny for a walk. When I got back from my walk, I needed to pump. So I started pumping when we got a knock at the door. I almost ignored the knock, but I decided that I should look to see who it is in case it was Tim and he needed help in with the baby. It wasn't Tim instead it was a police officer who asked me to open the door. So I quickly put Sunny in the bedroom and remove my pump accessories (although it would have been a little funny to open the door with them still on, I just wasn't feeling it). He asked me if that was my car parked on the street in front of our house and I said yes. He then started talking about the street leaking and I assumed that he meant Tim's car is leaking, but when he started talking about a sinkhole I really look at the street, and realized it was leaking water; water was shooting out of the street.

  I couldn't believe it, I had never seen anything like this. I called Tim and let him know about it. By the time he came home he had to park around the block because they had our part of the street blocked off. We went to Tim's Grandpa's party, and when we came home the utility workers were working on it. I then started getting ready for our Ward's Christmas Party by making my first ever batch of funeral potatoes that turned out good if I do say so myself.

By this time, we still had water. When Tim let the dogs outside one of the workers stopped him and let him know that they were going to have to turn our water off in order to fix it because it was our connection to the water main that was leaking. In the picture below is a sandbag over our connection to help slow down the small stream in the hole in the street. So we went to our party, and when we came home we had no water, but it was back on before we went to bed. When we went to bed that night, they were still working on it, but by the next morning everything was fine.

So that was our adventure over the weekend. Two parties and a broken pipe in one day.

30th Birthday Party

Saturday was amazing! Tim gave me the best 30th birthday that a girl could ask for. Now I know that I still have a few days until I am officially thirty, but you can't have a party on your birthday when your birthday is five days before Christmas and expect people to show up. Tim took care of the food, decorations, and invitations. All I had to do was create the Pinterest board (Thank you Pinterest) and show up. It was a really nice party with just close friends and family. When it came time to blow out the candles, Tim got those kind that never blow out so that proved to be really funny. At least I didn't have to try to blow out thirty of them.

Hot Chocolate Bar, Cupcakes, & Drinks

The Food

My Birthday Tiara (it has a 30 on it)

Another picture of the Cupcakes, Hot Chocolate, and Drinks

My pretty Princess in her cupcake outfit

Today is three months! I can't believe how the time has flown by. It really seems like just yesterday that I was still pregnant with her. She has been so much fun to play with and hold. For example, this evening she slept in my arms. It was so nice. I love snuggling with her, and I don't feel I get to do that enough with me back at work. She's also getting more animated as seen by her smile in the photo. When we took it we had a  bunch of smiley photos to choose from. I continue to be amazed by everything she does.