A Day of HEARTS (and treats)

I now have gained 10 pounds and have a very packed pantry because of Valentines Day. I don't think we have ever had so many treats in our house before, but I'm not complaining. This year for Valentines Trevor and I went on a early date. It was the first date we have had in a loooooong time and it was nice to just spend some time together. We went to the typical dinner and a movie and had lots of fun. Since we had already done our date we did not have much planned for the actual Valentines Day. I was going to take Claire around to deliver her valentines and then make a yummy dinner. Well that didn't happen. I ended up getting called into work that morning and had to work all day. Luckily I have an awesome babysitter who lets me surprise her and bring Claire last minute. They even had a fun Valentines party and she got lots of cute cards and yummy treats. Since I was stuck at work I did not get to make a dinner or even get home before Trevor. But when I got home Trevor surprised me with a very nice gift card to get some new clothes :) and surprised Claire with a huge balloon filled with confetti, aka shreds of paper that I am still finding around the house, a warm blanket and a cute heart pillow. I am the winner of boring gifts and got Trevor an exciting drill (we have been needing one lately ha). Claire got lots of fun little gifts like hair clips, books and a knitted beanie from her great grandma. Even though we are not too exciting we had a fun Valentines this year!

I did hurry and make some heart shaped toast
and pancakes before I had to go to work :)

15 Months! & some randoms....
I don't even like to say the word but I feel like Claire is a TODDLER! AHHH!!! I can't believe how fast time is flying. I was in the baby food section the other day and notice all of the foods she likes to eat now say toddler! You know how they classify the food by a baby's development like sitting or crawling...toddler! Hopefully we have a few more years before she starts wanting to eat the Preschooler foods! Although Claire is pretty much the energizer bunny, I try to keep up and she always keeps us laughing. Some of the things she can do now that she is a "toddler"....

*She is starting to feed herself (I don't give her too much freedom on this one due to the mess) *She tries to repeat everything we say
*Some of her new favorite words are meow, please, thank you, love you, up, nessy, bubbles, books, bite and she is learning new ones everyday! (i may be the only one who can understand them too but it sure is cute!)
*She knows what a cow, dog and kitten say
*She LOVES to put on my jewelry and gets into my bracelets every day
*She still loves to dance especially in the car
*Her favorite song is the Itsy Bitsy Spider and she tries to do the hand actions
*Her favorite foods are yogurt, fruit cups, pizza, veggies, blackberrys & cold cereal
*She loves trying to run me over with her powerwheel
*If I am ever sad or crying she laughs her head off at me and it puts me in a good mood
*She has not used a binky in 1 whole month (next to go is the bottle....)
*She can now unzip her pajamas and jackets
*She has her two top and two lower front teeth and she loves to bite
*I can get her hair into a pony tail
*She LOVES to read books. she will hand you a book and then back up and sit on your lap
*Her favorite books are anything with pop ups or flaps so that she can rip them out!

There are so many more things I could add to the list. She is growing up into such a fun girl. She is my best friend and I love spending time with her because we always have so much fun!

Claire spilled a whole box of cheerios while she was having a snack

playing her favorite game: seafood
as you can see, she keeps us on our toes!

2011!!!!!!
I can't believe it is already 2011! This year started with a whole lot of new things for us! Claire is getting so big, we have a new house, new car, I am done with school and now have a new job but we are excited about all of the new! For new years eve we went over to Trevor's parents because almost all of his family was in town. It is not very often that all of Trevor's 9 brothers and sisters get together but most of them were able to come for new years! We ate yummy food and played some games. Even though just hung out inside, we had so much fun! We were party poopers and ended up going home around 10 pm so we could put Claire to bed. Trevor and I were pathetic we watched t.v. in bed and saw the ball drop and then turned off the t.v. at about 12:01.....

The sparklers Grandma Johnson bought
were a BIG hit!
The sparklers were a lot quieter than the horns
they gave the kids at first...
The kids started playing twister but Claire wanted
in on the action so twister turned into follow the leader
and Claire was the leader!
It was hilarious to watch all the kids copy whatever
she was doing. It did not take her long to figure out
that she was in charge and she took full advantage of it!
(I'll probably have a hit man after me for posting this
pic but I have more so I am being nice only putting one.)
While Trevor's family was in town they came over and
brought their wii and one of those dancing games to play.
WOW is all I have to say! HAHAHA It was pretty hilarious
but so fun and felt like a workout!
Claire was going crazy on the dance floor! She loved that
everyone was dancing and she joined right in.
It was so funny to watch her try to keep up with everyone.
Or more like us keep up with her....she stomps her feet pretty fast!

Its Raining, Its Pouring, Outside its Snowing?
I could not believe how much it snowed! Even though I HATE the cold and the snow it was fun to have the snow for a little while and to see the beautiful mountains around our house covered in the snow. Claire loved watching the snow and we even had fun playing in it!

Our snowman with a hat but no face

our snowballs we threw on the wall


Claire trying to give Nessy kisses

HO HO HO!!
Once we got a little settled in our house we got into our regular Christmas traditions. We went over to Trevor's parents for dinner on Christmas eve and played a few games, then we headed to my parents for more games and prizes! We won some fun little gifts at the McMullin family bingo game and Claire had fun playing with all of her cousins, especially her best buddy Cooper! Cooper is Jillian's little boy. Jillian saved my life the last few weeks of school by watching Claire everyday! Claire loved going over there and playing with her kids. Now Cooper always wants to see her and when he does he always has some kisses and hugs for her :) Even when she was not going for the kisses he made sure she got them ha!

After we left my parents on Christmas eve we put Claire in her Chrsitmas PJs and sent her to bed. Then I hurried and put up our Christmas tree and wrapped Claire's presents. I was procrastinating a little....Trevor got me a HOUSE for Christmas ha and I did not get him anything because we bought a HOUSE! We did not get Claire very much but we had a few presents under the tree for her. When she woke up we started with her stocking. Bad idea. She did not want her stocking! Once she realized that there was an orange in the bottom of the stocking, she LOVED it! She played with her orange forever! I should have wrapped the whole box of oranges I bought. She carried it around everywhere with her. After she finished opening her presents we went to Trev's parents and got even more presents! We got lots of fun stuff including a littl stroller for Claire's baby and towels with our names embroidered on them (nessy even got one...spoiled) Then we went to my parents and got even more presents! (ok we are spoiled too not just nessy). One of Claire's favorite presents was her pillow pet she got from uncle Graham! She kept face diving into it on the ground and she carries it everywhere with her.

nessy ruining our treepillow pet time!