Random happiness from a long weekend

Black Friday- 50 books for FREE

 

We heart Grassroots Books. They are fabulous!! Today they were offering a special, 10 free books per person!!!!!

IT WAS HEAVEN!!!

 

We got some great books!!!!

Joe got a Nelson Mandela book that was retail $60.

Yeah.

 

We woke up Yaya who was too tired to come. Then she called 30 seconds later and told us she was ready.

After a fun morning of picking out books we headed over to Atlantis for a great breakfast buffet.

Boy. I realize why we haven't eaten there in awhile!

The food was delicious. I had the best omelet of my life!! However, it's just soooooooo much food!!!

We had a couple barfing incidents after.

But that could have been because we rode the super fast glass elevators after, 20 floors.

 FUN TIMES!

Playing Around With The New Camera

Happy Thanksgiving!

 

I love Thanksgiving!

I love cooking and getting together with family to enjoy food.

I even kind of like cleaning up.

It just makes me so thankful.

We are beyond blessed to live the way we do.

In the morning I went for a 3 mile run. It was beautiful and kind of nice to run in the daytime. I didn't have the element of fear driving me, so I did run a little slower.

The carving. I was so worried about the turkey being fully cooked. But fortunately, it was! We had a lovely time shopping for food with my mom and grandma. I made the list and they bought all the beautiful goods.

 

Timing was perfect. All the food was warm and ready to be eaten.

10 at the table!!

Eli ate really well so he got a piece of pumpkin pie. He ate EVERY SINGLE BITE of the pie!! And I think he sucked his hands clean.

 

STUFFED!!!

 

We love our grandparents!!!!

 

This was the very best part of Thanksgiving. I was sooooooooooo happy our Theo Speedo made it to lunch. He is the best! We have a leak outside and he went outside to see if he could fix it. Unfortunately, he couldn't. But it was so nice of him to try. He's also helping Joe find a new car.

 

I also decided to brave black friday at Best Buy. I started out in line at 11PM. It wasn't too cold. I was actually in flip flops. I was behind someone smoking weed, so it was actually pretty relaxing. There was one crazy mom behind me who was swearing up a storm at her kids. It's like really lady?? The line was insane. It wrapped completely around the building. Once the doors opened we were in quickly. I ran over to the cameras and fortunately got my bundle package. I ran to the check out and was done in 12 minutes flat.

 

It was awesome. Because I came home and the camera was aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahmazing!! I ended up saving around $200 for everything. I got a free carrying case and memory card. I was really worried about the camera not having a fast enough shutter speed, but when I got home I found I had no need to worry. I look forward to learning all about my new camera. Thanks Santa!!!

20 lbs! 14 months

 

Ah. My little puff de leche. I love this handsome little boy!!!

 

Elijah is so much fun. He has energy to boot! He is all over the place. He is independent yet he is a cuddle bug.

He loves to turn on and off the music from the stereo.

He loves water.

He can eat from a plate without trying to throw it on the floor... a good 10 minutes at least.

He likes eating with utensils.

He loves to climb still. So far he's only gotten as high as the couch.

He can burp and we all think it is hilarious.

He loves cars. Today was his first bus ride!! He loved it.

He loves to wave at people.

He likes to draw with crayons.

His daddy and papa are his best friends.

But the women in his life are important too.

He's loving to everyone.

He has A LOT of teeth.

He went to the dentist a week back for his first time and had all his molars!! Plus at least 8 up front. And yet he's never really bitten me while feeding!!

 

He loves his milky tenders still. We feed at about 4am. I was trying to perhaps cut that feeding out, but it doesn't look like it's going to happen anytime soon. Ah well. He goes to bed at around 7PM and wakes up around 6:30AM. He takes two good naps in the day for about 1.5-2 hours each. I weighed him and believe he's at 20 lbs finally!!

 

He loves to play soccer and kick the ball. He hates being diapered or clothed.

He loves to boogie.

He's fun. He's cute. He's wonderful.

November Art Farts 2012

 

We went to a craft time at the Sparks Library with Miss Rosie. It was really simple, but the girls loved it! 

The Art Museum this month was nothing to brag about. We did these prints, but had to wait in line. The girls also made rainbow weave baskets, however at one point an older volunteer just took the basket out of Maria's hands and started doing it for her. She must have been 70 something, so I didn't say anything, but it was annoying. Maria had already weaved half the basket by herself.

KIDS ARE CAPABLE!!

We've done tons of work at home this month. FUN WORK!! Christina has even enjoyed learning and practicing her times table! Maria is super speedy with addition and subtraction. I think I'm going to be able to start borrowing and carrying with her already. INSANE.

Acrostic poem.

 

Turkey wreath and scarecrows with Miss Rosie. I was also so grateful my girlies offered to clean up everything for Miss Rosie. The picked up the floor, cleaned tables and helped organize materials for her. They are the BEST helpers!!!

 

I have these bronze pens from my mom that I love using on black paper. I thought their drawings were awesome!