Yes, Alexa is FINALLY walking. After 17 1/2 months of wanting to be held, and crawling she has finally decided to get up on her own two feet and walk!! Yeah!!!
I am so excited that she is doing it. She does get it from Matt though. Matt didn't walk till he was almost 18 months either. Oh and Stef, I knew that she would be walking before Bailee, I'm sure it's not by much, but she did beat her!!! So here's a little video of her walking for everyone to see!!
Today, Alexa decided she wanted to have her nails painted... While I was getting ready, Alexa is sitting on the bathroom floor, and I hear a break. I look down and Alexa has 2 nail polish bottles. She hit them together, they broke and it went everywhere!! She had it on her hands, her mouth, her clothes, it even leaked through her clothes onto her legs and tummy!! I washed her up with nail polish remover, but it still didn't all come off. So I took these pictures after she was "cleaned up", but you can still see the evidence. I'm just glad she was in the bathroom and it didn't get all over my carpet!!
Sunday, my little Hannah became a sunbeam!! She seems so little to be a sunbeam. I remember when Makenna went in, and she was just so big, and Hannah is just so little. She is growing up so fast. She was really excited to go in and be a "big girl",listen in class and learn more about Jesus. It was funny though, because she is so used to getting snacks during church, afterward, she was grabbing any snack she could find in the car and eat it, because she got so hungry without treats in class!! We love you our little Sunbeam!!
We have a tradition in our family that my mom got when she lived in Germany as a child. Every New Years Eve (or in this case, New Years Day) we get together with my family and we have sandwiches on black rye bread, or sour dough bread. Then we eat and hang out.
Yesterday when we did this, we decided to go sledding as well at a hill by my parent's house. The kids had so much fun. Makenna is a little snow bunny and could stay out in it forever. Hannah had fun going down the hill with cousins and uncles. Even Alexa went down a few times with me, but I got tired of having to carry her and the sled back up the hill, so she ended up sitting in the car with my mom and niece Bailee. Here are some of our fun pics....
I would like to start off by telling about Christmas Eve. We went to my parents house for dinner. We got there at 4:30 and at 5:00, Hannah started throwing up. At first she was down stairs playing and then we brought her up and layed her on the couch and she just kept doing it...yuck, sorry for the details. Anyway we all ate, while she fell asleep on the couch and then we were going to have the grandkids act out the nativity, and Hannah had woken up and decided that she was feeling better to do her part. Makenna was an angel, Hannah was a shephard and Alexa was a sheep. They all thought it was so fun, even though, no one could really hear the story very well, because all the little "animals" were getting tired and making too much noise. Oh well the older ones all had fun. Hannah really started feeling better too. We all went home and then the "elfs" came and brought the kids new PJ's to wear. Then they went to bed. I was worried Hannah was going to wake up in the middle of the night sick, but she didn't. And Santa came to our house!!
Now Christmas morning... Makenna and Hannah got woken up by mom at 6:30, yes I know I am crazy but I couldn't wait any longer. Alexa woke up at 6:45 from us being loud downstairs.
Makenna and Hannah both got a barbie house and barbies to share and Alexa got a stroller with a baby. Along with that from Santa they got a movie and books. They also each got this Wow Wee animal, that purrs as it goes to sleep and blinks its eyes. They are really cute. Makenna got the White Tiger(Feffer) and Hannah got a Panda Bear (Tiki). Alexa got one of those little Fur Real pets, she got a polar bear. Along with some clothes from mom and dad.
They really had a good fun Christmas. They had fun opening their presents and had fun with the family. Hannah was fine on Christmas day, and didn't get sick at all, which was good. We were very blessed to have such a good Christmas this year. I hope that everyone had a great Christmas and wish you all a Happy New Year!!
The girls with their new PJ's from the elf's....
Alexa with her new stroller from Santa
Hannah with Tiki
Makenna with new High School Musical Barbies.
On Tues. the 23rd, Matt and I went to an ugly sweater party. I got mine from my sister in law, she said she had bought it in Park City years ago, and actually paid a lot of money for it. Matt decided to go to this second hand store by his work and found this beautiful pink sweater with cute snowman on it. Ha Ha!!
It was a fun night, we ate dinner, played games and then they passed out awards for the ugliest sweaters. We got second place and got two free movie tickets... Such a fun night.
Here is a picture of us in our ugly sweaters.. (and me with my ugly glasses) 
On Monday the 22nd, I woke up and started to get ready, when all of the sudden, my vision started to get blurry, it was like I was looking into a white cloud, and throughout the day, it just got worse. So at 4:00 I called the eye doctor and they said that since it was getting worse, I better get to and ER. So I went to Jordan Valley Hospital, where they wanted to do an MRI, to make sure it didn't have anything to do with the blood clot that I had in my brain, when I was pregnant with Alexa, so they did that and everything came back great! No more blood clot, everything is completely gone!! That's the good news, the bad news, they weren't sure why I couldn't see out of my left eye.
They had me go up to the University Hospital, and had the eye doctor come in and look at my eyes and run some tests, and decided that my eyes may becoming contact intolerant. I had these popularise, or something like that under my eyelids, they are just like little bumps, but it was affecting my vision. So they gave me some steroid eye drops to use for the next 5 days, and said that I can't wear my contacts for at least 2 weeks, and to just wear my glasses,YUCK!! Then told me to go see this eye Dr. at the Moran eye center on Monday,(today).
So I went back in today, and she said that my eyes look really good, and that it was a good thing I had gone in because I almost could have had a corneal ulcer in my eye. She said that I have to wear my glasses for another week, and then to wear my contacts for like 4 or 5 hours a day, for a few days. She also said that it could have been caused by using the Kirkland Brand Saline Solution, cause it has harsh chemicals in it. So she wants me to make sure that I am using the Bausch & Lomb, or the Opti-Free solution on my contacts. I guess there really is a difference in name-branded stuff for some things.
