Seriously So Blessed

Things around here are quiet tonight. Eden is taking a nap, the house is clean, and all I hear is the neighbor's Christmas music playing. I love Winter time. I love making Hot Apple Cider and being all bundled up in front of the TV. I love sleeping with the windows open and the heater on. I am totally an Arizona girl. This is what I call Winter! I turn the AC on in the car during the day, but the heater on at night. Seriously where else do you have to do that?

Things are hard right now - really hard. I know that things are tight for everyone, but that doesn't take away the sucky-ness of it. Through all of these hard times, I have to constantly be reminding myself of what I have been blessed with. I am seriously so blessed.

I am blessed to have such a hard working husband. I really don't know how he does it. Between working 3 jobs, going to school full time and studying, he still finds time to spend with me and Eden. Eden is so lucky to have such a hard working Dad and dang... I'm quite proud of him too.



I am seriously so blessed to be Eden's mom. I don't know what I did to deserve her! She is at such a fun age right now. I am loving every single minute of every single day with her. There is absolutely nothing better than being a mom. I love my little family.

Sisters. What would I do without sisters? I think Heavenly Father knew I would need some of the best sisters in the entire world, so he gave me Tairi, Brooke and Annie. I was making Hot Chocolate the other night and I got out my favorite mug. Brooke gave it to me while I was pregnant. I started crying when I read (for the 100th time) the little blurb on the side of the mug.

"My sister is the only person I can tell on in the morning and giggle with by the afternoon. She was my first confidant and my closest companion. And she will always be my precious friend."

Isn't that SO true? Whenever I am having a bad day, my sisters are always there for me. We can be fighting one minute and the next minute laughing hysterically. Who else can you do that with?

I feel like I am totally rambling about nothing. I haven't had any time in the past week to blog or write anything down so I have a lot of stuff going through my head.

I am super duper blessed to have awesome friends. I went out to lunch with my BFF Jessica this past week and realized how fortunate I am to have such great girl friends. I may not have a ton of them, but the few close ones that I do have make up for my lack in numbers. Jessica just got engaged and is getting married in May. I am so happy for her! I think lunch dates with girl friends are one of the best things in the world.

I love babies. I want one. My little Eden isn't a baby anymore. She just cut her 3rd tooth today, she waves hi and bye, blows kisses, plays peek-a-boo, says Baby and Tickle, and is just so smart. How I would love to have another baby. We have really been going back and forth on whether or not to have another baby, but have decided that Eden won't be a big sister for a while. Maybe for her second birthday or something - who knows. We made it official today... I went and saw the doctor and now we will be baby free for up to 5 years. I am not really sure how I feel about it yet. I am sad but I am also so excited because we have a lot of really exciting things planned for our little family in the future.

Christmas Dresses. Who doesn't love Christmas dresses? When I was growing up, my mom always dressed us girls up in fancy Christmas dresses. Sometimes she would even make them. She would stay up alllll night sewing our dresses so that we would all look so cute for church. This is something I definitely want to pass down to my girls. Sadly, I am not as crafty as my mother, but Kohl's clearance is just as good, right? I am pretty proud of myself for finding Eden's Christmas dress for $14.

I have been on a cooking kick lately. I love cooking and one of my favorite parts about being a homemaker is planning and preparing dinner. I love sitting down together as a family at the end of the day and enjoying a yummy meal. Eden is totally over pureed baby foods and will now only eat table foods. She is a little garbage disposal.

Last weekend, we got to go to a convert baptism. I have been to 2 convert baptisms and I won't ever forget either one of them. Craig had the oppurtunity of baptizing Sasha. It was so awesome. She is such a cute girl.

This blog is totally random. I'm just bored and feeling a little reflective. :o)

Please tell me this isn't happening!

SHe can't be doing this already... I am far from ready for this!

Another Tag - 5 things

I really should be cleaning. But why would I clean when I could be doing these fun tags?

5 Things I was doing 10 yrs ago:
* Playing basketball for the Greenfield Grizzlies!
* Babysitting all the time and making the big bucks
* Met 2 of my best friends still to this day, Jessica and Ashley
* Got my first cell phone
* I really can't remember anything else this far back. My life consisted of babysitting and basketball.

5 things on my "to do" list today:
*Clean the kitchen
*Do massive amount of laundry
*Kiss Eden multiple times
*Work tonight

5 Things I would do If I were a millionaire:
*Buy us a house
*Buy Tairi and John a house right next door to us
*Buy Brooke and Sam a house on the other side of us
*Set money aside for Eden's college
* Pay off our debt

5 Places I have lived:
*Gilbert, AZ
*Phoenix, AZ
*Mesa, AZ
*Queen Creek, AZ
*That's all

5 jobs I've had:
*929 Capelli Salon - Receptionist
*Cisco Credit - Credit Report Processor
*Arizona Federal Credit Union - Teller
*University of Phoenix - Enrollment Counselor
*Best job ever - A MOM!!

5 people I'm tagging:
*You
*You
*You
*You
*You

6th folder 6th picture

I was tagged by Jeanette and I am supposed to post the 6th picture from my 6th folder. My 6th fodler is all of my old school pictures, so here's what you get...Me and my cousin, Stephanie. I think this was our Junior year of high school. Look at how SHORT and red my hair was. I was so cute back then.

crazy?

I may sound a little crazy but that's ok. Or maybe I have been speaking nothing but baby talk for the past 9 months so I can totally understand when Eden says something. Don't burst my mommy bubble - I think she said her first word!

She normally says it right on the first try, but I think she was being a little silly for the camera so it took a few tries. It's no wonder this was her first word (mama doesn't count), she LOVES babies!!


Moving on... last night Eden gave us a pretty good scare. We were laying in bed when I just had this feeling that I should go check on her. I went in her room and she was sound asleep. Out of nowhere, she started screaming. Right away I knew something was wrong because she NEVER screams like that. I picked her up and she was limp and unresponsive. I knew she was breathing because she was crying, but her eyes were rolled back in her head and she wouldn't move a muscle. I ran in the kitchen and tried to hold her more upright but she was still limp and wouldn't respond to me gently shaking her or yelling her name. I took her to Craig and she finally 'woke up'. She just layed on Craig and stared at the ceiling with a blank stare for a minute. Then she snapped out of it and started to cry her normal soft cry. I gave her a bottle and she was back to her normal happy self but I was still freaking out. Craig checked her out and said she seemed fine so eventually we all settled in for the night.

I called her pediatrician today and they wanted to see her. The doctor believes that it was a breath holding spell where she cried so hard, held her breath and passed out. These are often mistaken for seizures, which is what I had originally thought it was. Breath holding spells can cause small, uneventful seizures.

So, we just have to wait to see if this happens again. If it happens again I will know to be a little more observant so we can make a decision of whether or not to test for seizure episodes. If it was in fact a seizure, 90% of kids go on to never have another seizure again.

She is totally fine today. She hasn't ran a fever or anything so we are pretty confident it wasn't a seizure. Hopefully she doesn't make a habit out of these breath holding spells either!

My Favorite Time of the Day

I love the mornings. Not early in the mornings, but more like 9:30 or 10am. It's when Eden wakes up. I always wake up before her so I have a little time for myself. Most days I just wait and wait for her to wake up becuase she is just so sweet in the mornings. She always gives the best hugs and kisses first thing in the morning.

Today Craig didn't have to work so we got to sleep in a little bit. We had been waiting for Eden to wake up and decided to go check on her. When we went in she was just sleeping so peacefully that we had to get a picture. When Craig went back in to take a picture, the flash woke her up and she was oh so happy to see Daddy getting her up in the morning! He is usually long gone to work by the time she wakes up.

Here she is, sleeping on her belly with her butt in the air... pretty normal. She woke up as soon as he snapped this picture.


All smiles!


Then she starts to stretch


And she chills for a second or two


Then gets all excited and stands up as fast as she can!



I LOVE this toothy smile!


I just love her. That's all.

Boo!

We've had such a fun week! Rebecca and Jared are in town for the week and we've been doing all sorts of fun, new things. First, Craig's grandma taught us how to make her homemade bread. I wish I would have had my camera with me! Here is the finished product. It was the tastiest bread ever. I think I ate the entire loaf in 3 days. It makes the best toast!



Then, on Wednesday we took the kids to the library for Story Time. Again, I wish I would have grabbed my camera because Eden had the best time. She was by far the youngest one there but she still sat on the floor with all of the kids and listened to the stories. She would even clap when they would sing songs and do little motions. It was too cute. I definitely need to start taking her to more story times in the future!

Today we headed out to Schnepf Farms with Nana and Papa. It was a blast! All the bigger kids loved it and wore themselves out! Eden just slept through some of it, but she always has such a good time just watching the bigger kids.















Tonight we went to my parents house and had a spooky dinner. Here are a few things from the menu.

Breadstick Bones


BRAINS!


Some funky scary teeth


Deviled Egg Eyeballs


Worm Salad



Bug Juice!


And last but definitely not least, here is my Litte Witch. A good witch, of course!