December

Trying to keep things up to date here!  Thanksgiving was a ton of fun at my parents house with about 70 family members, friends, and other random people, some of which we may not have known prior to that day.  We had our usual games and forutnately there was no ER run involved this year.  Here's a few pics from the day.

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Baby girl #2 is doing well and we're just waiting it out.  I tentatively have a c-section scheduled for 1/3/11 but for some reason I just don't think I'll make it that long.  I don't remember feeling this gigantic with Cam but maybe I've just forgotten. I look back at the pics and they prove me wrong. 

I also forgot to mention (as it was broguth to my attention) that Brian is the 2010 National Champion in his class in both SCCA ProSolo and Solo 2! We are very proud of him! If you can't make out what all these dots and lines are, it's the two courses that they raced for the Solo 2 portion of the event.

Back in Action!

Ok, well it's been almost an entire YEAR since I posted anything on this blog. I can't believe it, really, it hasn't been that long has it?! Does anyone still look at this? Oh well, it's a good way for me to keep up on writing down what's going on since I'm not good at keeping a baby book.

So, here's what we've missed...
Brian and I both started new jobs in December 09. I kept it and my business running until April 2010, when I tried to quit my job, but have been working part time from home ever since and running the business. A big thanks to Laura and Lauren who worked for me doing all my deliveries and pick ups during that time. Hopefully that will end soon here.

Cameron kept up with her preschool and she just moved to a new Montessori school and is doing wonderfully! We LOVE the new school and so does she. It's so much different than her old school where she learned about the color yellow and number 3. Now she learns about artists like Monet and Van Gogh, dinosaurs, shapes that even I don't know, does math, and is reading simple words (all this in the 1 month she has been at the school)! We couldn't be happier with it.

My main reason for getting this back up and running is that we are due with a new baby girl at the end of December (just about 6 weeks away now). Cam just turned 4 in October and I know I won't have time for scrapbooking and keeping up a baby book. I thought this would be a better way, hopefully. We are planning another c-section since I had one with Cam and are looking at somewhere around 12/30-31. Gotta get that tax deduction, ha ha! We have no name picked out and no nursery set up yet. Clearly the second time around we're a little more relaxed about it (or lax is maybe a better word). We are moving Cameron to her own big girl room downstairs in the basement and just finished painting it her favorite color, pink of course. The new bed should be set up and everything moved by the end of the week if all goes as planned. Then I can get started on the nursery. It's a gray and yellow theme with some pink thrown in. I've been sewing a few little crafty things, like a crib skirt, some pillows, etc so that's been kind of fun.

I do tend to post more pics on Facebook so join me there if you follow the blog. I'll try to keep this up in the future now though too.

Thanks!

Mark, this one is for you! :-)

Just a pic of our Strawberry Shortcake playing at Grandma and Papa's house on Christmas.

Merry Christmas!

Finally, a family photo of all of us together! I discovered as I was trying to put together a Christmas card, that we had no picutres of all of us together. Hope everyone had a great Christmas and have a Happy New Year!

I suppose I should also update anyone who still reads this on what's going on with us.  I recently started a full time job back at Honeywell doing some accounting work. I'm actually working as a contractor on a temporary assignment until August.  I haven't decided if I want something permanent to come up or not, so it's nice to have that option open and a long time to decide.

The same day that I started my job (about 3 weeks ago), Brian also got a job offer on a great position too!  He'd been going back and forth with this company for months and had 3 interviews.  He is now an Applications Engineer with Interface, a company that makes and sells load cells, located in Scottsdale.  In actuality it's more of a sales position so he's excited to be learning something new and is making a great impression in his first 2 weeks on the job.  He'll be covering the Midwest to start out, so hopefully that doesn't include too much travel in the winter!

We're both excited (and relieved) to be working but it left me with no one to make deliveries for the rental business.  I decided to keep it going and hired my good friend Laura and my sister Lauren to run all my deliveries and pick ups during the week.  So far, it's working out great and everything is going well. 

Cameron has been adjusting well to going to preschool or daycare every day.  It's so nice to have my family close by so that my mom can pick her up around noon and take her over to her house until we get done with work. She loves going to school and is bummed when the daycare days come up.  Starting in January she'll be going to a 5 day half day preschool program at the same place so she'll be happy about that.  I've actually been off this week and next week so I think that's made it a little easier for her too. 

Anyway, hope everyone had a great Christmas again!

Got the tree up!

We just got our tree up and lights on the house in the last couple days.  We've been busy delivering and picking rentals for the business over the last two weeks.  It was really busy which is great and we're hoping for a busy Christmas too.  Brian is going to be taking over running the business for a while since I just got a temporary job at Honeywell for the next several months.

Here's some recent photos of Cameron too. She is loving pre-school and amazes us every day by the things she says and does. I sure will miss seeing her little face during the day!

 

 

 

Here comes the parade!

Feeding the nut"cracker"

After explaining what a nutcracker was, she went to the pantry, got a cracker and stuck it in his mouth, then attempted to crack it.

First ornaments on the tree.

Flagstaff Trip

A week or so ago we decided to take a drive up to Flagstaff to ride the lift for the last weekend of the summer.  We'd never been up the mountain when there was no snow so we thought it'd be fun for Cameron and a great view.  We drove up to Flag, grabbed some lunch and headed up to the base of the mountain to catch the lift.  It was pretty warm still, around 65 or so, and we went back and forth over whether or not we were going to take our snow jackets up to the top.  Good thing we decided to because I swear it was about 30 degrees up there at 12,000 ft.!  It was a nice 20 minute ride up but the ride down was actually the best to enjoy the view.  We saw the last of the trees changing color (just a few left that were still yellow) and got to see the Grand Canyon from the top.  Here's a few pics from our trip.

 

Fun with Ellie

Cameron had a few fun days with Ellie before she and her family moved to Wisconsin. She will miss Ellie a lot (and I will miss her momma Nicole!) although she didn't quite understand what "moving" was. I finally had to tell her that she wouldn't be able to play with Ellie any more but that we would visit them. She proceeded to ask if we could go to Wisconsin tomorrow.

These are just a few pics of them playing at our house and at the park. Here's a link to the album too.

From Cameron and Ellie Oct09

From Cameron and Ellie Oct09

From Cameron and Ellie Oct09

From Cameron and Ellie Oct09

From Cameron and Ellie Oct09

From Cameron and Ellie Oct09

From Cameron and Ellie Oct09

3rd Birthday Pics

Wow, it's been a while since I posted anything and Cameron has turned 3! Here's some pics from her Princess party last week. Click here for all the photos.

From 3rd Birthday

From 3rd Birthday

From 3rd Birthday

From 3rd Birthday

Sea World

We took a little trip over to San Diego with my parents this past weekend to visit my mom's brother Jim and his wife Sara. We ended up going to Sea World and even though poor Cameron had been running a fever, she still loved it. Here's some pics from our trip.

From Sea World 0909

From Sea World 0909