Park City and Super Tired

On friday we headed up to Park City to get our Christmas shopping done, it was cold so we had to bundle up the babe! She was unhappy with me for putting a hat, (thanks Stace for the hat), gloves, extra coat and an extra blanket, but we had to keep her warm. After that she took a nap and we fed her when we got up there and she was happy as culod be until, she didn't want to be in her carseat anymore. We got most of Christmas done, what a big sigh of relief!!
Saturday we helped my brother and is family move into there new house, so Claire was with her grandparents, she was super tired, she hadn't slept well that night and was fussy. That night I fed her, gave her a bath and then I went to make popcorn. So I put her in her bouncer and she played for a good while, she is very fascinated with her bouncer, she gets excited from looking at the toys that hang from it and makes it bounce and then gets a scowl on her face, because she is not sure why she started moving, and then does it all over, it is fun to watch. So after she was done with her bouncer I needed to take my contacts out, but she didn't want to lay down, so I set her on our large couch in the crease and she just sits and looks around and smiles. So I went and took my contacts out, which took about 2 minutes, and I came back to this...
...it was so cute, I had to take a picture so I could show Brandon when he got done shoveling the snow and going to get salt to clear the ice.

Not much, but a little bit of everything!!

Well not a whole lot has been happening as of late. We are just getting ready for Christmas that as I was going around Christmas shopping yesterday realized was in two weeks. Brandon and I and Claire are going out tonight to finish (hopefully) all of our shopping, that will be fun.

At the moment I am looking for the perfect story about the Savior's birth for Family Home Evening the Monday before Christmas, one that will make Claire smile and Brandon and I think about the Savior's birth an how absolutely amazing it was! That we get to celebrate this holiday, we get to give to others at enormous rates, and we get to remember that people are good and generous. I talk to Claire about Christmas, about how the baby Jesus was born to Mary and Joseph, the Wisemen came and the Shepards as well. She gets this huge smile on her face, and I just have to sit and think how blessed I am to have this beautiful daughter in my life, that has come straight from the man that we are celebrating this special holiday. How close she is to heaven still, and that as a daughter of God she has very special roles in her life to come. I love the feeling I get when we talk about Christmas with Claire and that huge smile she gets.

A little update on the little girl, she is almost 3 1/2 months, and is learning lots of things, she is starting to put everything in her mouth and I can get her to hold her toys, she holds her head up like a champ, and she smiles at almost anything. The last two nights she has slept 8 hours, yahoo!!
She is so fun, we love her lots. Here are some photos we have taken and yes I realize she is in the pile of stuffed animals, Brandon did it and she looked at us like we were crazy. She finally just gave up on us and started to eat Speedy (Brandon's turtle).
Sorry I had to turn the flash off or she wouldn't smile, so here is her stick my tongue out and smile

Brandon was playing with her and she always smiles so big, but as soon as the camera came out, the smile turned down!

When she gets really tired she tends to put her hands up by her face, I like to tell her she is thinking to hard to fall asleep, she should just close her eyes, instead we get the finger on the chin, or the fist, or something else.

I went in to check on Claire, she had been making noises, so I waited for them to stop and went in to see if she had got herself back to sleep, this is what I found. Usually she screams when she pulls her bows over her eyes, but she was so tired that she just moved around a made a little sigh, realized she couldn't do anything and just went back to sleep.


Hope you loved those, we sure do.
Have a very Merry Christmas!! Enjoy this amazing time of year, it will stick with you if you do!