Random

Here are some new pictures. Adriana has had her 2nd birthday! wow i cant believe it and still cant believe i am old enough to have a 2 year old! However, I turned 30 this year! Yikes! i have no clue how that happened to me. Excitiing stuff. So here are just some random pictures. I did get really brave and cut Adriana's hair! Well brave is an overstatement. I just trimmed the back so it was all one length. Every time she sees scissors she says, "cut hair". She is talking up a storm! We were a little concerned but in the last month she has said 2-3 new things every day and they are clearer than every. She now loves to say, "Night, Night". At the grocery store the other day she said "Hi" to someone. just as friendly as could be. when they asked, "how are you!" she responded, "I shy" then hid her face in my shoulder. Adorable! i am loving it. I will be working days starting the second half of December. Chris' store will be shut down until March 1st. He will still be getting a paycheck but it will be a little less than normal. I am increasing my hours at Sorenson and will work the max 58 hours per pay period and that should make up for Chris' paycut.

I did find out yesterday that I passed the 2nd national certification exam i took back in August. so i am quite excited about this. I now have 2 national certifications.

Painting!

We decided that in order for this to really feel like it is our house and not just a rental we had to paint something! Hanging some pictures was fine, but we have done that other places too. So we decided to start with the kitchen and dining room. They kind of flow into each other so we couldnt paint one with out the other.

We let little Miss Adriana help with the walls too. We started the first night with giving her a make up brush. this is her artwork. She was soo happy to paint and to help me. She thought this was the funnest thing to do.

She even decided that "paint" meant the same thing as when Mommy paints her toes for her. So they were nice and red! luckily all the paint washed off in the tub.

A couple of days after this I decided to give her a little tiny roller. This was on a smaller wall, just under the counter/breakfast bar and it was a cream/ yellow color. She did fantastic!


As you can see by the smiles she likes to paint! This is the first time she hasnt been in trouble for getting color or marking on the walls! Who wouldnt like it!? I do think she likes to paint her little body more than the wall but both were exciting :)

Look at the concentration on her face! She was really making a solid effort here. I decided on all 3 occassions not to worry about getting her into old clothes, but just to worry about changing the diaper.

Here is Adriana's finished portion that she used the little roller for.

Halloween

This year for Halloween Adriana was a Pirate. She really loves them and knows how to say "Argh!" when you ask her what the pirate says. it is too cute.







Here she is all dressed and ready to go! We went to the trunk or treat at my parents church like we do every year. We did want to pass out candy and trick or treat a little at our house since we are brand new to the neighborhood but we didnt get the time. we did have a few trick or treaters that came by after we got home.

She had a really good time at the trunk or treat. She did struggle with the fact that she had to put her candy in her bag when she got one instead of eating them all right then! We did let her have a couple of pieces that night and maybe one the next day. She thankfully forgot about it after that and i have not seen the bag of candy since, so i dont know if Chris threw it out or hid it or something. Candy is not an important or frequent thing in our house so it's really no big deal.

I am glad she had a good time and she was very excited to be in her costume and collect candy. :)

PAH! (Finally)

I FINALLY have new pictures to post! it has been forever so there are a lot of new ones and since i havent blogged out of guilt for not having pictures there is lots to tell. i will post pics now then blog later!

These are all taken at our new house. i will try to get pics of the house up too but we have projects going on so it might take some time. we are painting the kitchen and Chris is tearing out the fireplace in the living room to put his t.v. in there. when those projects are done i will surely show the pictures!