The Holidays

As usual since I have been at work... updating this blog is getting more and more difficult. A lot has been happening since I have lasst updated. Brynn has had another ear infection. She has another tooth. She had stood. Now she goes from sitting to standing on her own, without holding on to anything! (I will post video). She takes 4-5 steps at a time, too!

Sick. We all seem to be psasing it back and forth. Brynn had another ear infection a few weeks ago...and Dan got a nasty cold that he so generously passed on to me. I haven't felt this crummy in a long time, and am hoping Brynn doesn't get it.

We also have had a huge change, which is one reason it has been so long since I last updated. We have moved. We had a potential tenant walk through our house, she loved it, but needed to be in by December 15th! We didn't think we would be out before Christmas... so we had a tree and had decorated... and had about 9 days to be packed and moved out!! Talk about stressful! We somehow managed to do it, while working full time and chasing around an 11 month old. We are now all settled in at Dan's dads. I know in earlier posts I had mentioned moving in with my Grandma, but we decided that this is a much better option for us for now-- especially with an almost 1 year old. Grandma's house still has so much work, and there is so much for Brynn to get in to. All of my grandma's knitting baskets, plants, and nic-naks she has set up all over. Definitly not baby friendly. Not to mention the space... not a whole lot of room for all of us and our stuff. At Nick's, we have 1500 sq feet to fill up-- we are able to use all of our furniture, and our room and closet are like twice the size they were. We are pretty comfortable for now... and in a few months we will begin looking seriously for houses! :o)

Now Christmas! I took Brynn to see Santa at Macy's on Friday. She LOVED him. No tears, just a lot of intense looks. The line was long, but well worth the wait!

Our family is so blessed! We had good food, family time, and a great first Christmas for Brynnie Boo. She is near impossible to bring to church... she doesn't want to just be held. She wants to go, go, go. On Christmas Eve Dan and I took turns taking her out and letting her crawl around. She sure was a ball full of energy. Christmas Day she had so much fun with Dan's cousin Berit. She played with Brynn pretty much the whole day, which was nice for me to have a little break :) Dan's Aunt and Uncle live on White Bear Lake, so we also brought our skates over because the lake is like glass! It was so nice.

Dan had Monday, Tuesday, and today off of work, which has been nice to spend time together. We went to the Mall of America yesterday-- it was so crazy. Today we are just going to putz around here, do laundry, clean, and make spaghetti for dinner. I am going to try and enjoy the little bit of time left that I have home with Brynn before I head back to work. After New Year's, I am going to seriously really hit my capstone hard. I am all registered and want to be done by time next school year begins so I get a nice little bump in pay :)

Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you all! I will leave you with some video!

A lot of Change... And Stress!

Ok. I have not been the best with updating the blog. I had started a week ago, and stopped because I feel like all I had to say was so boring! It is officially December and we have snow on the ground (finally). I just finished up with the first trimester of school. Hard to believe! Ia m looking forward to the next because I get to teach astronomy and the kiddos LOVE it. I didn't get to teach it last year since I was on bed rest/ maternity leave... So I will be refreshed :)

Speaking of bed rest... December 10 was my last day of work last year and the day I was put on bed rest. One week into tri 2. Hard to believe! Hopefully we don't get a massive snow storm again next weekend like we did last. My shower was cancelled due to it... We are planning on moving out of our home next weekend so snow would not be good. Which means we have a renter! We are just waiting on the signing of the lease but it is pretty official! It is overwhelming and I have many mixed emotions about it. Going from living on our own to living with family. My grandmas house is just not going to be ready for a baby by December 15... So for now we will be with Dans dad. Saving up money in hopes to be in our own house-- not townhouse :) by the fall next year! I am glad renting our town home is an option, because it is the only we were going to be able to move!

Brynn is changing more and more each day. She is so very close to walking! She has taken a step or two and dropped to the ground. She also stands for a few seconds, then drops to her butt. Her preferable mode of moving is crawling or walking along furniture. She just cruises! Today she figured out how to put her ball into a circle on her toy... It just amazed me. I have video of it that I will post.

So, the next week will be packing/ organizing / arranging movers/ etc. today we are going to se the Trans Siberian Orchestra with my parents... Their Christmas Gift! So one last fun day before we have to work, work, work all week! My hands are raw from all the work we did at my Grandmas yesterday. We ripped up her carpet, painted, ripped out nails... Long day.

Well... Many changes to come! Here is video of Brynnie.