Sickie

Elena is sick....she has had some congestion for a while now and the other night she just kept coughing so I thought I would stay home with her so she could get some more rest becuase lately we have had to wake her in the morning to get her ready to go to the sitter's and I hate having to do that! So yesterday I wasn't at work and she woke up at about 8ish and I think that helped a lot and we also got a humidifier. Later on in the day she had a really long nap and that was good, she seemed to feel a lot better in the afternoon. I hope it goes away soon though!

I was able to get some cleaning done so that was good too! (not so fun though)

Fun pic

This is a little random, but I'd like to start adding some pictures fo the other kiddos. This is Shannon, age 9, flying through the air after going down the slide. The kids had a blast swimming in my sister's pool in St. George.

Pictures

It finally happened! We had picture day for Elena last night and her appointment was at 5:20pm. It took forever to get in! By the time we got in Elena had already lost her silliness for the day. It went well anyway she was still pretty happy and the picture turned out so cute! They gave us another free 8 x 10 because we had to wait so long, so that was cool. Todd had to meet me there because I went there straight after getting Elena ready at the sitter's house so while we were waiting for the picture slide show to select our favorites Todd and Elena went home because we had no idea how much longer it would take (especially choosing our favorites). I ended leaving there at 7:35pm!

Well worth it though!

Now I just have to plan getting family pictures done! All six of us! I want to do them in February when Elena is a year old. That is going to be hard I think but fun.....I hope.

Long Break but not Long Enough

We had a good break! Thursday we just hung out, we wanted to go to McD's for breakfast and it was closed so we ended up going all over the place searching for somewhere to eat! We finally found a BK open in Spanish Fork just when we stopped looking. We ended up going there anyway....



We went to Kmart and Macy's (the grocery store) and bought a few items. Later on in the evening Todd and I went to Chuck-a-rama cuz we were starving and we left Elena with my parents. I had made arrangements with my parents to go shopping Friday morning...we decided that I would pick them up at around 3:30am.



I ended up going to bed Thursday night at about 12:00am because we were busy watching the lastest Die Hard movie and I wanted to finish it. I got up at 3:00am hurried and got dressed and ready to go (and no I did not do my makeup cuz I think it is just dumb when people do that, no one cares!) Todd and Elena stayed home and had their little day together. So I go over to my parents and see that the lights are all out except for downstairs so I go and knock on the door and sure enough they had slept in! They were all worried that I wouldn't get there on time, they felt silly. At least it didn't take them long to get ready.



First stop....Jc Penney's.....quite a few people there, grabbed a few things for Elena and Todd, afterwards we were off the Macy's and on the way there we stopped at IHOP to get some breakfast and it was a good thing my mom noticed it was open because there was hardly anyone there so we didn't have to wait forever. THEN we went to Macy's....again quite a few people but not too crazy. Bought some stuff for Elena and my niece and some stuff for myself and for Todd. Then we went to Mervyn's and man it was crazy there! A bunch of people all over the place making lines that never seemed to end. Again I got more stuff for Elena and one more item for myself, then we headed home.

I got home showed Todd all of the stuff I bought jumped in the shower and got all the last minute things ready for our trip to St. George. I was exhausted and fell asleep in the car!

We had a good time in St. George, we always do, we just weren't there for very long but still worth the trip!