4 months!

 So Sophie turned 4 months on saturday, I can't believe it! Where is the time going? I had a doctor appointment today and I guess she is pretty small for her age. (not that we didnt already know that) She is in the 20th precent in height, 15th percent in weight, and her dang head is so small, its only in the 3rd percent! She must get the small head from Nick, because I have always had a rather large one! :) 

Anyways...So, since she is now 4 months, we decided to have Sophie try solid food for the first time, well, if rice cereal counts as solid food. It seemed pretty watery to me. Anyways, I really dont think she liked it all that much, well actually I dont know,I couldnt tell really, because I dont even think she actually "ate" any of it. It basically all came right back out as soon as we tried to put it into her mouth. I guess that is pretty normal, though, for the first few times. Hopefully it will get better, because I'm kind of excited to start feeding her real food. :)

So not very many people know, but I have always really liked to draw. I haven't done it for a really really long time, but I got kind of bored one night and decided to draw a picture of Sophie. It turned out better than i was expecting, which is kind of exciting, because I really didnt think it would. But anyways... here is a picture if it. (by the way i think it looks much better in person, i couldnt really get a good picture of it.

So i just had to add some pictures of Sophie (what else am i supposed to do with the thousands of pictures i have of her, right? ;)

4 months old!

Just bored!

Nick is studying tonight, and I just put Sophie to bed and I decided that i would update what has been going on with our little family.... so I am sitting here trying to think about what we have been up to these last couple week and what I came up with is that basically not too much has been going on. To be honest though, nothing going on is kind of a nice little change! It seems like we have really had a crazy couple of months.
Right now though, I am just back to doing hair, I have been pretty busy with doing that and taking care of Sophie, who seems to think she gets to have my FULL attention ALL the time, and for some reason i give into her demands. :) She has started to be really smiley lately (well, smiley for her) and its fun to try and think of new dumb little things to get her to smile. 
Nick has been super busy with school this week. I swear those pharmacy people don't like to give them breaks. But he was in a little city ping pong tournament thing and he ended up having to play my dad for the Championship... and he WON!! I think everyone in my family was happy to see Nick win, except for my dad! haha
We also put up our Christmas decorations for family night last monday. I love this time of year and its so fun having Sophie with us this year. :)

 Nick with his precious ping pong paddle and his 1st place certificate!

I forgot to mention that nick has been trying new recipes. This time he made cranberry orange bread, it was delicious! 

Nick is always the best at getting her to smile!

HAHA! So let me explain this one... So back when i was in cosmetology school we tried this new kind of waxing where you use a hard wax to wax the hairs in people's nose. Well i told my dad, and brother Brandon, and nick about, so we decided to go get the wax and try it on them, a few weeks ago. Well they all loved it (it doesn't hurt as much as you would think) So... nick tells his brother Jono about it, and we decided to try it out again. I get quite a laugh watching them stick popsicle sticks with wax up their noses and then ripping them out. Its pretty funny. Anyways... so this is them with the sticks up their noses!

Thanksgiving Weekend!

This year for Thanksgiving we went to Utah to be with Nick's side of the family. We had such a great time! We got there on Wednesday and went to Nick's sister Stephanie's house first, from there we were able to go out on a little double date with Steph and John to the new Harry Potter movie (I was pretty excited to see it, but Nick wasn't too thrilled) Nick's parents watched Sophie and Mary (Stephanie and John's little girl) while we were out. It was so fun to watch Mary with Sophie, she would come up to her and say " Oh baby Sophie, she's so cute!" It was so cute to watch.

After the Movie we went to Nick's grandma's house and stayed the night. The next day we were able to just hang out and have fun with the family. It was so nice to always have somebody there to hold Sophie. She has been a little spoiled with getting held, and now she thinks that she always has to have someone holding her. Its ok tho because I really like holding her. ;)

Friday morning, well actually it was more like Thursday night, Nick went to Walmart for the big black Friday sales. He really wanted a new TV. The one we have now is from like 1970 and its an oak panelled one that is too old for the TV remote to work on it, so you could see why Nick thinks its time for a new one. :) Anyways... he went around midnight and decided that since the sale on the TV wasnt until 5am that he would come home and sleep for a couple hours and then go back. So that is what he did. He woke up at 3:30am and went back to walmart and got his new TV. So now we have a new tv and nowhere in our house to put it. I told him it was our Chirstmas present and that we couldnt open it until then, but he said that he really really had to watch the Boise State game on it and thats why he wanted it in the first place. So... we opened it... basically im a push over!

Anyways tho, we had a really nice weekend. We were able to be  with my side of the family friday night and that was fun. Unfortunately Sophie is sick now. Its very sad, but she is a tough little girl so she will be ok. :)

 Nick was so tired after waking up early and so him and Sophie took a little nap together.

This is my cousin, and best friend, Tina with her cute little boy Caleb and Sophie. We were watching all the guys play basket ball.

This is just a cute picture of Sophie!

She was so sick and was just cuddling up with me. It was cute, but sad. her poor little nose is so stuffed and she has a little cough.

I love when nick gets breaks from school because I love having him home with Sophie and me, and not having to worry about him stressing about school and tests, and this year he started his Thanksgiving break a little early. His last day of school was Thursday and then he gets the whole week of Thanksgiving off.

      So he has decided to celebrate by going duck hunting and making pies, very opposite and random things! But I sure like the pie making idea, the duck hunting is another story. 

Anyways... Nick and his brother Jono went duck hunting near blackfoot on Saturday morning and they were able to shoot down a goose, which I think they were pretty excited about. Lucky for me, Jono took the goose. ;)

This is Nick and Jono with their goose!

Nick and his very first apple pie! It was delicious! 

My broken arms!

So as many of you know, I broke both of my arms in a motorcycle accident with Nick. It really has been quite the experience, especially with a brand new baby. Its been pretty challenging but i know that i have actually learned a lot from the whole experience. I am so glad that we have such great families that have been so so helpful. We couldn't have made it through this without them. This first picture here is of me right after i got my CT scan, the day after the accident. I know, I know, everyone is super jealous of how good I look here. haha

This is how I held Sophie with my broken arms. Basically she just would lay on my chest, so I actually wasn't using my arms. I could only do it if she was sleeping because otherwise she was too wiggly and I couldn't catch her if she started to fall. It was very sad.

Another really good looking picture of me, right after surgery. I was soo out of it. This little spot on my parents couch became my home for about a week. :)

Sophie and Mom

So I figured out that its my computer that is dumb and wont let me post pictures... so im using my parents computer. The only problem is that by doing it at their house i can only use the pictures that they have. :( Thats ok tho, its better than nothing at all.

First Post.

Ok so I have really been wanting to start a blog, but every time I have tried it seems like I just end up not being able to do it. I'm a little bit slow with these kinds of things, but this time I'm really determined, and I think I have it figured out. I guess we will see right? Maybe it's because this time I actually have a lot of extra time on my hands seeing as how I'm not able to do a lot of things right now ( for those of you who don't know, I broke both of my elbows recently, not fun!) But I can type on the computer. :) So here I am at 11:30 pm on a Tuesday night, starting a blog. I guess I am mostly just doing this for me and our families, but mostly for me haha, because if i didnt figure out something to do soon, I think I might go crazy! Plus it's always fun to look back at things that are going on in your life at certain times, and remeber. So, even if nobody else enjoys this, I know I will, and that's all that matters, right!?