Merry Early Christmas

We had a very Christmasy weekend. On Saturday we went to the ward Christmas party and Julia told Santa what she wanted for Christmas. She was her usual social self and relished the attention she got when she was on Santa's lap. No criers here!

Since we'll be celebrating Christmas in Utah this year we decided to have our own early Christmas on Sunday and open up our presents under our tree here. Robert's comment was, "It's not nearly as fun when you know what everything is." Yeah, but it's still fun to finally get to use what you bought yourself for Christmas =).
It's also fun to teach Julia how to open presents.All ready to learn to walk! Julia also quite enjoyed rolling around in Mom and Dad's new fluffy comforter. Who could resist this face?We finished off the weekend by going to a Christmas Carol Sing-A-Long at a friends house in Claremont. Now we are all ready for the holidays to go to Utah and see our families!

For the Grandparents

Cheer on Julia as she shows you her newest talent

Late Thanksgiving Post

I was a little busy this week with some projects (making bridal shower invitations and sending out Christmas cards- e-mail me your address if you'd like one wheatthin@gmail.com) so I just got the Thanksgiving pictures uploaded. We spent Thanksgiving along the Colorado River again near the CA/NV/AZ border (To get to the movie theater we would drive from CA into AZ and then to NV where the theater is at) with the Wheat family. Robert loves this place because there is a golf course literally across the street, so he spent a lot of time out there. L-R Dad Wheat, Me, Mom Wheat and Julia, Robert, and Daniel. (photo by Wendy)

Notable firsts of this trip for Julia included the first (two) time(s) in a movie theater (She did pretty well. She ate, then slept through most of the movies. She did get taken out once during each movie, but it wasn't as bad as I had thought it might be), first time eating baby food turkey, and first time dipping her foot in a river.

Julia's Crawling Progress

She's hasn't quite perfected it yet, but here's her current progress. (P.S. Can you guess what she's going for?)

Last week I tried on my wedding dress for the first time since we got married(my brother's getting married in January, so I was feeling nostalgic). The most disappointing part was that I couldn't even get my arms to fit in the sleeves!

I'm telling myself it's because of all the muscle I've built from carrying Julia around. Man, I must have been scrawny when I got married.

Sometimes this feels like my family...

Come What May and Love It

This was such a great talk, and since I have nothing exciting to post this week about us I thought I'd share this. Enjoy!

What an amazing child!

Attention all grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousin, close friends, acquaintances, and random people who lurk on my blog, I would like to announce another astounding accomplishment by my adorable offspring. Julia has taken calcium, phosphorus, and other minerals to form...a tooth! Such talent!

Happy Halloween!

For Halloween my cousin Katrina and her family came up from San Diego to celebrate with us. We had a BBQ (that's right, we ate outside, because it was 80 degrees!), and went Trick-or-Treating for twenty minutes in Claremont's little shopping area, The Village. Every time someone would put a candy in Ali's bucket she would take it out and want to eat it. Then we went to our ward Halloween party, then came home and and handed out candy (we had a good stream of trick-or-treaters come by), put the kiddos to sleep and played games. That's probably the most we have done to celebrate Halloween since Rob and I have been married!