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I have been neglecting my blog lately... and neglecting my blog is neglecting my friends and family! Christmas time was wonderful this year. It started with Christ-Giving (between Thanksgiving and Christmas) with my cousin Erich, his wife Lindsey, and their little boy Evan, and Aunt Elizabeth and Uncle Bill (and of course Jacey and Grammy). Then we had our own Christmas on Christmas Eve. Then Christmas day we went down to Aunt Elizabeth and Uncle Bill's. And finally the day after Christmas we traveled down to vist Uncle Ben, Aunt Ashley and Grandpa. Then - on the way home we stopped in Corsegold to visit Papa Don and Edie. Phew.. We were busy! Here are some pics and videos of Christmas break.

Jacey LOVES her Uncle Bill and Aunt Elizabeth :)

She went to the beach and discovered sand... What this picture doesn't show is her putting that handful of sand in her mouth!!

She met her Grandpa :)

Family pic.

She met her Great Grandpa. This is a priceless photo. :)

I love my Grandpa.

Papa Don and Edie.

Jacey's Christmas present from Mommy.

What have we been doing??

Well.. it has been awhile since I have posted anything, thought I'd better get on here and update everyone.

Thanksgiving was awesome. My mom, Jacey and I went to our good friends the Oelkers. It was soo much fun. They have a 2 year old (Eli) and a new baby that is 2 weeks older than Jacey (Noah). Having the kids around is so great. I love the fact that Jacey has friends that she will know for her entire life! Kind of like the friends I have, Becky and Jessica - we met when I was 1 1/2 and are so close... Love that...

Anyway, after Thanksgiving we came home sick :( Jacey and I both had fevers.. ARG it was a rough couple of days. It was the first time Jacey ever had a fever! We survived though...

Speaking of surviving - I survived my 1st term back at school! YAY!! I finished my finals yesterday... I was soo stressed this week, and now that it is over I am completely RELAXED... Interesting thing is that Jacey has not been sleeping very well the past couple days and then once finals were over and my attitude changed now she is sleeping great! I think she must have picked up on my tension. I've been asking the Lord to help me with that. Help me to control my attitude so that it doesn't affect my baby... :( Anyway - 2 of my final grades are posted so far, both A's. Hoping for 2 more!!

It's supposed to snow a lot this weekend. I am actually looking forward to it.. it has hardly snowed at all yet this year... It will be great because next week we are having family visit for a few days and it will be all nice a warm and cozy inside and all freezing and white outside! Nice and Christmasy..

That's all for now - I don't think I am going to get Christmas cards out this year... but... here is our Christmas picture... MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

MERRY (early) CHRISTMAS

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Silly Mommy

After church today, Jacey and I went grocery shopping. When we arrived I got Jacey out and secured her into the shopping cart. She waited patiently while I retrieved the rest of my junk from the car (purse, cell phone, keys, etc.). The next thing I know all my coupons go flying out of the car and blow across the parking lot. Naturally I went chasing after them. As I was doing this I heard laughter behind me. I turned around to see who it was.... and it was JACEY!! There she was, with a huge grin on her face, laughing at me chasing after my coupons!! Who knew that the first time Jacey belted out a big laugh that she would be laughing at ME... Oh my goodness :) She's so cute... It tickles me that she found humor in something, even though it was her silly mommy.

Did you vote?

Jacey Love spent the evening reading up on the presidential candidates and state measures.

She worries about how the upcoming election will affect her future.

So, for Jacey Love's sake, please VOTE!

Oh ya, I forgot...

Here are the pumpkins!! Can you guess which one I did? and which one Grammy did?

Halloween

Yesterday was Jacey's first Halloween. It was a quite evening for us. We just sat around eating chocolate and carving pumpkins :) Check out Miss Jacey Kitty. Ain't she cute!? I couldn't decide which picture to put on here, so I just put a bunch on. I don't think anyone will complain!!

Yesterday, Grammy got the high chair out. Jacey isn't sitting up by herself quite yet, but she is almost there. The highchair supports her enough so that she can sit pretty well on her own. The plan is to train her to sit at the table with us while we are eating dinner. That way when she is eating solids she'll be used to the idea of eating as a family, praying before we eat, table manners, and such. :) She's done pretty well in the highchair so far. No big fits yet!

It was really funny yesterday... Grammy was playing with Jacey on the floor and Jacey kept doing this thing where she would be laying on her tummy and then she would lift her legs and arms into the air... Grammy decided to do the same thing. It was SOOO FUNNY!! It may be one of those thing you just have to be there for to find humor in it, but I hope that you get what I am saying by this picture.... Doesn't it look like they are skydiving?? hehe.