St. George

We went to St. George last weekend to see Chris's parents. We decide to take Chris's car instead of mine so Naomi and Mia had to ride next to each other. At first Naomi would kick Mia if she put her head on her carseat but after a while Naomi didn't care. And Naomi would tease Mia with her chicken nuggets. I snapped a cute picture of the two of them on the way home.

Happy Anniversary!

Don't ya love the caution tape!!

This was taken in 1995. Chris and I had just started dating. We look like we're up to no good!

On January 3rd 2002 Chris and I were sealed in the Salt Lake Temple. I always wanted a summer wedding but because we got engaged in October I didn't want to wait 9 months or more to get married. For heaven sakes we had been dating for 6 years!! The last six years of marriage have been entertaining and exciting. And I look forward to more excitement!! Chris is a great husband and father and I'm lucky to have him in my life.

Girls X-mas Party

Crazy ladies

I think Marie is going to try out for America's Next Top Pregnant Model

Tim, Christianne's hubby, showing off his killer white elephant gift

Friends forever!!

We had our annual girl Christmas party a few days ago. As always, we had a great time. The white elephants were outstanding again this year. It's to the point where we are buying them months in advance. Some of us ended up with 50 year old food storage, pregnancy tests with gum and incense, holy water that was blessed, t-shirts for men seeking men, oversized calculators, simpson chia pets, ect.. Honestly, I can't remember all of them. But it was really fun. As you can see, we spent alot of time taking pictures. There were a few girls who couldn't make it but we still had a great time!

Christmas Day

Annual Christmas sisters-mom pajama pic

We had a great Christmas this year. By the time Christmas day arrived, Naomi was a pro at opening gifts. And not only her gifts but everyone's gifts. Chris and I decided that this year we would only get Naomi a couple things. With all the toys we've purchased throughout the year and the gifts she'll get from Grandparents and such, Naomi will have plenty this Christmas. So, we bought her a little people's farm. Right now she's obsessed with animals. She loves it! And, she also received a little broom. She's always getting mine out and sweeping. So far she's swept the kitchen a few times. Another great thing Naomi loves is the kitchen Grandma and Grandpa Neeley gave her. We put it in her room since her should be playroom is two floors down and full of Christmas stuff. I bought some play food so she keeps herself busy playing in her kitchen. We hope everyone had a great Holiday and has a great New Years!

Christmas fun!

Naomi hating Santa

Totally hating Santa

Before Santa arrived

Grandma and Grandpa Jacobsen with Gordy being Gordy

Gift from Grandparents

Jacobsen Christmas

playing in the snow at Solitude

Dad and Naomi at Solutide's lodge

This past weekend we celebrated Christmas with Chris's family. My in laws came up from St. George for a couple of days and stayed with us. It was so nice having them around. Since they moved, we don't see them very much. Friday night we went over to my brother in laws and had a traditional Christmas dinner and then opened gifts. For the family gift my in laws gave everyone, including the little kids, Balboa Island sweatshirts. They looked so cute on the little ones. When I opened up Naomi's I said I wanted one in my size and I did! Of course we all put them on a took a family picture. We are going to Balboa in June and I'm sure those sweatshirts will come in handy for the evenings.

The Jacobsen's always go skiing around Christmas so the next day everyone went up to Solitude. I actually don't ski, but I went up for a few hours and hung out at the lodge with whoever was taking a break at the time. Of course, Chris wanted to take Naomi down a few hills so we bundled her in her cousins stuff and down they went. She was laughing and pointing at the people skiing down the hill. Next year, Chris wants to get one of those harnesses and take her skiing with that.

On Saturday night, we had the annual Neeley Christmas party at the Gallivan Center. Santa came and Naomi did not like him at all. The closer her got, the more upset she got. When her name was called, I had to go up with her and sit on Santa's lap. Everytime he looked at her she would freak out. Maybe it was his awful breath. Santa definitely needed a mint.

Which is worse...

Being thrown up on or your husband telling you there is somebody in the room.



First story: Monday night Naomi was acting up. She wasn't eating her veggie burger and clementine for dinner. I was so annoyed. But I let her out of her highchair to play. Then she started to be real clingy so I took her into the family room to play with her before bedtime. We were playing ball and all of a sudden she stopped and threw up. Chunks of veggie burger and clementine were spewing out of her mouth like a fountain. So, I called to my husband to clean up her throw up while I cleaned her up. I take her clothes and she is lying on my leg in her diaper staring at the Christmas tree. I'm just tickling her back for about ten minutes and decide that I'm going to lay on the couch with her laying on top of me. Why? Apparently I wasn't thinking too well. So, I get on the couch and about one minute later she let's out this disgusting burp. She looks up and throws up on me. From about chin down. By the way, I had just cleaned my couches that day. So, I roll us off the couch, she throws up some more and I take us up to the shower to clean us off while Chris is cleaning up the throw up. I'll have to say that I felt my own throw up coming up but I knew it would just make things worse if I did so I kept it down. In conclusion, she threw up a few more times and then finally went to bed. Needless to say, she is still sick but no throw up.



Second story: As some of you know, Chris is a sleep talker and walker. Some of my family members have experienced this first hand. I would tell some stories but I think it would embarrass him. Anyway, I deal with his sleep talking/walking on average once a week. Well, this particular night was disturbing. Two evenings ago, Chris started watching a show called paranormal state (I think that's what it's called). It was some freaky show about kids who see dead people and are being haunted by them. I was on the laptop so I wasn't really paying attention but I could tell it was super freaky. When I started to pay attention it was a story about a boy and his mother who were being haunted by a demon who had lived in their house forever ago. This show was giving me crappy feelings so I told Chris that he can finish watching this episode but he can never watch it again. I know, I sound like his mother but I didn't want to have any of that in my house. So, later that night as we're sleeping Chris says to me " do you see that little boy?". I said what. Chris says, "do see the little boy standing in our room?". I think Chris is just trying to scare me so I tell him he's rude. Then Chris says, "where's the baby boy that you were taking care of?" Still I'm thinking he's awake and being mean so I tell him he's not going to scare me and we go to sleep. The next morning I tell him he's a jerk for trying to scare me and he doesn't even know what I'm talking about. Creepy! Unfortunately, this kind of stuff happens frequently with him. In the beginning, it would totally freak me out. But now, I just tell him he's dreaming and to go back to sleep. People say we should have a camera in our room to see what he does or says at night.

Well, there's my week. I hope I made it entertaining for you all.

Thanksgiving

This is what I look at every morning

She is always getting into the pantry for snacks

Naomi helping me rake leaves

She likes to walk around the house in my shoes

Last day teaching primary

Mia

Loves to get into the dog crates

Thanksgiving this year was really fun! Regardless of who's family we go with, it's always in St. George. My family has always had Thanksgiving in S.G. and Chris's family has also for the last few years. Now his parents live there. This year we were with the Jacobsen's. It was the first Thanksgiving in their new house so it was alot of fun. Mia (our dog) loves to go there and play with all the other dogs. Plus, she's loves being around so many people and grandma Jacobsen let's her on the furniture so Mia is all about snuggling up on the comfy chairs. Naomi had a blast. She loves being around all the dogs and kids. She kept her self busy by playing in the playroom and watching people play ping pong. She loved kicking her shoes in the red sand which made me crazy! And Chris and I had a great time spending time with siblings and in laws. Pretty much the boys spent most of their time in the theatre room watching football, playing football on the play station or playing ping pong. And us gals hung out upstairs talking and when the kids went down for the night we watched movies and ate candy. My sister in laws are great! I had such a good time with them. I wish I saw them more often. I'm mad I forgot to take a picture of all of us. All of them are so cute and fun to be around.

My family has a little tradition every Thanksgiving where we get up at 4:30 in the morning and drive to Primm Nevada to shop at their outlet mall. Even if it's the Jacobsen's holiday I still go since Chris's family goes golfing for most of the day. We shop for a couple of hours and then drive back to S.G. It's really fun. I usually find really cute things for the three of us. And the Jacobsen's have started a little tradition of their own. We have a mini Olympics. Girls against girls and boys against boys. This year we competed in push ups, long jump, sprint, putting (is that how you spell it?), ping pong and pull ups. I beat the girls in push ups and ping pong and came in second for long jump but they all kicked my butt in putting and sprint. Anyway, we had a good time.

Unfortunately, I forgot to take any pictures of the weekend so I posted some of Naomi that I've taken in the last month. Enjoy!