The move

Ok so I deleted a ton of old posts from here so lets see how fast i can fill my blog back up. It's been a crazy couple of weeks. We did celebrate Christmas even though we moved a few days after. We didn't do our tradition stuff  but instead we went to the Phoenix Zoo Lights. It was cool but not worth $10s. Shows you how cheep i am. Christmas morning, Bug woke up at a very unreasonable hour to open gifts but we all had a lot of fun. The Christmas tree was down before noon and Husband and I spent the rest of the day playing our new games!!! So much fun!

I met my parent's at the phoenix airport on the 27th. We flew to Vegas which brings me to my first picture and story

The above picture is a picture of Bug strutting through the Vegas airport! When we got off the plane, she had a poopy diaper that was oozing out the top. I warned my dad when he went to pick her up that if he held her, he would get some on him. He didn't understand my warning I guess because he ended up picking her up and ended up getting poop all over himself! It was just our luck that our gate-checked bags didn't make it back to the gate and were taken to the baggage return location instead. I changed Bug's diaper but her clothes were way to gross to keep on her. So we allowed her to runway walk through the airport. . . . well, only for a second until we got her blanket out and wrapped around her. It was embarrassing and funny all at the same time!  We did get a lot of concerned looks from strangers i was waiting for security to come and stop us!

Husband and his family packed our apartment and moved all our stuff to our new apartment the next couple of days. We are getting settled into our new home. we have a few more things we need to do before we can say we are totally settled. I'll post videos of the new apartment when i get the apartment looking decent. The front room looks good and so does the kitchen (thanks to my wonderful mother in law!!) But the bedrooms are kind of scary looking right now.

Random photos and bits of life the last couple of weeks

Daddy daughter

The week before we moved, Bug and I invited Aunt and Buddy to go to the children's museum with us. We had tons of fun!!

Buddy "how does this dragon work"

Bug the environmentalist "throw your trash away! I'll show you how"

Setting the table for dinner. Because of this i HAD to get Bug a kitchen for christmas!

Both Bug and Buddy loved pushing this doggy button

Lets race! 

Bug LOVES getting herself up into chairs!

"I'm in a pickle"

Giving loves to the polar bear

Plying the Xylophone 

 

playing with the sand art table

I guess bug missed her toys! When we got home she had to carry them everywhere.

I was asked to play my flute for the Christmas program. this is how i practice these days. I ended up playing Little town of Bethlehem. I was really embarrassed because right before i stood up to play, I opened my water bottle and it exploded down the front of my shirt . . . so i stood up with wet spots all down the front of me! I tried to hide behind the music stand because of this. just my luck

Playing with her ducks in the bath

this is when we realized that we probably requested way to many dolls and girly toys for this little bug. She LOVES playing with daddy's tools and is a really quick learner!

A photo from Zoolights on Christmas eve

I thought this was way cool!

here is our tree chirstmas morning

Bug's happy face!

Loving the stuffed animals mommy made

opening a gift from Jomama

strollin around the house

Gramy and Grampy's visit for Christmas

more toys!!!

Bug LOVES her puppy! 

Bug and Buddy trading toys for the moment

Gramy and Bug!

The move

After clothing my daughter in the airport

Loving drinking from a straw

giving loves to Binks!! He liked her at first, but the hugs got old and so did the stalking

When asked "what does Andy say?" Bug will make an elephant noise . . . poor Fat Andy (the family's nickname for her for the last couple of years)

Great-Grandpa, Juju, Uncle, and Bug hanging out at my Parents house

Craft time with Jomama!

Bug and Juju

Porkchop and Bug playing with the train. I thought this was way cute

On our way north we stopped in Beaver and had to take a photo of bug in the big rocking chair there

bug: Mom has to go potty again!!

Another stop on our way north. We stopped at the mall and bug LOVED running around and sitting at this table which was just her size!

playing the piano

getting lessons on the french horn. This is the last instrument picture of Bug for this post. Did you notice how many pictures of her there are? She has the Xylophone, Flute, Piano, and the French horn! We didn't take a picture of her playing the keyboard or any of the photo's of her new instrument bath toys. I think this girl will be a musician when she grows up, now which instrument will she play?

helping Gramy with dishes

Bonding time with Grampy

mmmmmmmmmmmmm. . . . fry sauce!!!

Wiped out after a long trip of moving.

Thank you So SO SO SO much for all of those who helped us with the move. We have such a great family who helped us pack and helped us make traveling easier. Thank you to my mother in law who stayed with me and unpacked my kitchen and move boxes so i wouldn't over do it. Thank you to my parents for having a layover in Phoenix and buying me a plane ticket so i could cut out the first 8 hours of driving and it was wondeful to have help on the plane with Bug! Thank you to Paige and Craig who helped us load boxes. thank you to my Father in Law for driving the moving truck and loading/unloading the boxes. Thank you to our extended family, the Howards and Danny, who showed up to load boxes in Phoenix and Thank you to the Christensen's for helping us unload the truck when we made it here.  If i forgot someone, thank you also. We are so blessed to have so many people who are willing to help us out. All of you are so wonderful!!!