Holiday Wrap-Up in Photos, LOTS of them

 At our ward Christmas party. Lucy didn't love Santa as much as we thought she would.

 The next 15 photos are from Christmas #2 (Christmas 1 was when Nates fam was in town around thanksgiving) which was actually a week before Christmas, when Margo (Johnny's sis) and her kids + Dallin (Johnny's other sis's son) were here to celebrate. What a blast!

Lucy LOVED Margo's girls, and I don't think they minded her either.

Que Bueno: a must at any Waite gathering.

The three-headed dog. Johnny's mom made this years ago. Thats Margo in there.

 Getting ready for a  Christmas feast

Mmm. We had cheese soup and croissant sandwiches, and much more deliciousness!

Before gifts we acted out the nativity. Lucy took her role as Mary VERY seriously.

Lucy's pooh blocks from the Waites, she loves them!

Margo got an iPad!

 It was so fun to have them here and to be able to celebrate with them!

The Monday before Christmas we had our annual decorate cookies-Santa Lucia-eat soup-night at my parents house. It was more low-key than usual because my dad had just gotten out of the hospital! Time for the story:

2 weeks before Christmas my dad, brother,mom, and Heidi, were out to my in-laws house finishing splitting wood and loading it into Jake's truck. They had previously taken down one of the Waite's old trees and were finishing up the job. My dad was rolling a HUGE log over to the truck when he suddenly collapsed from a horrible pain in his head. He never lost consciousness, but he was in excruciating pain. Mom took him to the ER, where they got his pain under control and started doing tests to see what was going on. Later that night (and after dad being admitted to the ICU) we found out that he had some bleeding in his head. Yikes! horrible news! (Let me insert that all this day I was at the Waites trying to enjoy spending time with them, all the while I am freaking out inside, and a little outside, about my dad). Come to find out the bleeding was a good kind (as far as that goes) and he was told he would have a headache for a couple weeks, but he should fully recover. That was a Saturday and he came home from the hospital Monday morning. Long story short he was in and out of the hospital that whole week before Christmas, because he was in horrible pain (and he has a high pain tolerance), dealing with a rude doctor who prescribed him the wrong medicine, and also enjoy dehydration and virtually no sleep. I hated seeing him have to go through that. It was the worst! Anyway, after an awful week he still ended up home for Christmas eve and all the festivities, but I don't think he felt too good.

Decorating cookies, dad trying to put on a brave face.

Mom giving us all our "treasure"

Santa Lucia, the candle boy, and... Emmy and Lucy with leaves in their hair.

Christmas Eve!

Grandpa in his wheel chair.

We needed an extra wise man, and got a BIG one.

Sad little angel.

For our talent, we did "Elf Yourself" with my dad and all his siblings (that were there). It was pretty funny. Somehow I didn't get a picture of us with the faces on.

Jenna after a HOT snooze.

Back at grandma and grandpas after opening Christmas jammies.

I made our jammies this year! Jenna's little romper is my favorite.

The Gray's

The Mortensens

Dad-Heidi-Jake

Christmas morning, and a nice hair-do!

Lucy was really worried about Grandpa during the whole ordeal, but was happy to have him home.

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Hilarious. Emmy got princess shoes for Christmas and the girls were clickety-clacking all over the place in those.

Christmas drooler

Ready for church.

Me and Professor Quirrell?

Lots of cousin time. And these two are best buds.

No snow, and nice enough to play outside.

The.best.present. My parents got each family one of these awesome wagons! We are already loving it

We spent New Year's Eve at the Price's. Lucy & Ben.

Jenna & Analise, right before Jenna pulled her hair. Sorry Anna!

WHew! That post took forever. The holidays were wonderful, and as usual I'm sad to see them go. But I'm excited for a new year. Last year brought me a beautiful new daughter and I'm excited to see what this year will bring! Maybe a new car?

Sorry if there's spelling or other errors in this. I'm not going back to proof-read.

Stay tuned for Jenna's 6 month update.

Sleepover!

On Friday night we had my niece Liv and her friend Ella (also the girl I nannied for 3 years) over for a sleepover. It was so fun! Lucy was so excited when I told her. Now you might be thinking " a sleepover for a 2 year old?", but this really is just an excuse for me to see Ella, who I like to claim as my first child. I miss that girl, so we have to have sleepovers every now and again.

 

We made homemade pizzas for dinner, played hide-and-go-seek, had popcorn and watched a movie. The girls had a blast. Lucy was in heaven. Liv and Ella were so good to include her in what they were doing.

In the morning we made blue blueberry pancakes and played around until we went to lunch at Burger King. When we told the girls we were going there Ella said "I've been wishing to go there." That's what we do at the Waite house, grant wishes. 

 

Oh yeah, and this girl turned 5 months old. We love her to pieces! I mean, look at those thighs!

This girl...

 is SO dang cute!

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and its a GOOD thing!! Blah! This almost went in my mouth! I was air-planing her.
    

Christmas time is here!

4 months old.

    Today Jenna is 4 months old. Time has seriously flown with this baby, who hardly seems like a baby anymore. Jenna is such a sweet, good baby. I seriously don't know how I got such good natured babies. Jenna loves to be in the action and will rarely let you hold her facing in, or laying down. She has to be upright, facing outward so she can see.

    On Monday we were at grandma and grandpa Waites and all the sudden at the dinner table she locked eyes with Lucy and started talking like crazy to her. Since then she has been a talking machine. Literally from the moment she wakes up in the morning she is in her crib talking and sort of growling. Its hilarious. We love it.

   Jenna is really strong. She holds her head like a champ and does great at tummy time. She loves to sit in her bumbo and can sit by herself (without bumbo) for a few seconds at a time! In the past couple of weeks, shes really started to grab at toys and hold them. She pulls out her binky and waves it around too. Her favorite song is Jesus Wants Me For A Sunbeam; she lights up whenever we sing it. She has a husky little laugh, just like Lucy.

    She really loves her sister and will easily put up with: blankets over the face, pushing on her tummy, bouncy her like crazy in the bouncy chair, shoving the binky in her mouth, and big, frequent, (sometimes hard) kisses. We love our Jenna. She fits perfectly into our little family.

Stats to come on Monday after her apt. I hate shots!
 STATS: Head- 16.5 in- 75% height 25in- 75% weight 15lb 10oz- 90% Woot woot! I still hate shots!
 

Boo.

Sisters.

 The minute Jenna was born I turned to Johnny and said, "She looks just like Lucy!". It was such a funny thing, because I had told him multiple times before we had her that I thought it was crazy to think we could make a baby that looked different than Lucy. Because she was our first it just seemed like, well, thats what our kids will look like. Even though me and my syblings are way different looking, it was just weird for me to think I would have kids that looked different. I don't know, maybe that doesn't make sense. Anyway, so Jenna came out looking the spitting image of Lucy, but with dark hair.  Here are some images of both girls. Lucy left, Jenna right.  The ones of them in the same outfit are when they were (Jenna is) both 3 months.

                                                                                                                                                      Definitely differences, but pretty similar. I had a lady at church say that my girls were like clones. I take that as a compliment since they are both so stinkin' cute! I am loving having two girls and am frequently telling Johnny I would be ok with all girls. I may regret that in 10 or so years...