Turkey Day

It was Thanksgiving on Thursday and a four day weekend. Tom and I decided to host a Thanksgiving dinner on Friday with some friends. I love cooking for people but I always tend to be stressed while cooking but once it's time to sit down and eat, it's so relaxing. It was a really good afternoon and evening with good food, great people and a little bit of wii playing. One thing I need to make sure is to buy a craving knife for the turkey because a bread knife just doesn't cut it when it come to a moist turkey(which I was worried would be dry). We pretty much had all the homemade fixings which was great. As well as my first attempt to make homemade pie crust and apple and pumpkin pie turned out well too, I must say so myself especially since I have never really liked pie, haha. I meant to take a picture of the evening but like always I forgot to get the camera out. Maybe next year, I can't wait till we do it again.

Best Team

Well we know that the Edmonton Oilers are the best hockey team there is. Not like those Toronto Maples Laughs. Noah wishes grampie would come around and join his side of the bench, because then he would be happy as him!!!

Back from Vegas

Well Noah proved to be a good traveler so that was great. We did have to climb from the front seat to the back a few times to talk to him and play a little during the drive but overall he did great. Now lets hope he is good at flying. If he is this Christmas, than I see a Europe trip happening in the spring time!!!!!

So onto our Vegas trip, well we had some good parts and some bad parts which sucked. I'll start off of with all our good moments of the trip. First of all it is always great to get away just the three of us and have no schedule to follow. Noah loved the lights and sounds in Vegas, his little head, arms, and legs were swinging everywhere. You would think he would never get sleepy but as soon as we were up in our room and put him down he was out like a light. It was nice walking though the shopping areas of the casinos and the best of all is walking on the street at looking at the lights. Noah got to meet one of his aunts which made me happy as well. My favorite thing was to watch the fountain show outside the Bellagio. So the down side of our trip was that Tom got the flu on the last day in Vegas so we ended up just staying in the hotel room trying to get him better for the drive home the next day. So it looks like one day we'll have to go back to the smoky City because we only got through half of the strip. There is still at least 4 casinos that I would like to see the inside, plus I would love to go see a show sometimes.

Tom did go down on the casino floor one night while Noah and I got ready for bed, but was back up before long (it's not just the gamblers that love Vegas), but he did come out ahead.

Here are a few of my favorite pictures of our trip.

Another Month Older

Five months today!!! Our little man is growing so much, exciting and sad at the same time. It's exciting because I love seeing all the new steps and skills that he is developing but it's also sad because I love my tiny little bundle that came home from the hospital with us and everyday he gets older the more independent he becomes, they grow up way too fast.

Noah is doing well, he is taking a yoga class with me(we've only been to one so far but we plan on going every Thursday to class). The class was small when we went but he loves to watch the other babies in the class...some are crawling, standing, sitting, others are not mobile at all. On his own he has started going into downward facing dog and it's funny to watch. He hasn't figure out yet to push up on his hands and knees/feet at the same time. So a lot of the time he lays his head on the floor and goes up on his toes, hopefully he learns soon or I for see some carpet burn on the poor boys cheeks. haha. We're pretty sure he is teething now, red gums, fussy and desperate to put something in his mouth to chew on, and well he's still drooling like crazy. Hopefully these few teeth that are bugging him will come in soon. Besides that he is our happy funny little man who is very eiger to move and get into trouble.

Not much new... excited to see my sister

Hello folks not to much to say where as I wrote just the other day. We are all good here in our little place. Not much new is happening. Noah is growing and changing by the second and we(which means I) am starting to get more sleep lately which is nice, hopefully I can catch up on some lack of sleep since January, as I am still pretty tired. But when does parenting not leave you tired haha. Hopefully after I just wrote that it won't jinks me and won't I will be up tonight with the little man. Next week are heading to Las Vegas to see my sister who is down for a conference, I am not really a Vegas person but I am excited to see her and for her to meet Noah. He'll be five months old when she see him. I am also happy to finally to go on a little trip again, I think our last one is well over a year ago, but a little nervous too because it will be Noah first big trip well not as big as christmas trip home will be but long enough. Well that's about it here are some pictures of the little man, who's not so little anymore.
Here one of the latest projects i am trying to work on when Noah lets me. If I get it done in time It will be Noah's Christmas Stocking.

Christmas day for Tom

Well since we are heading home for Christmas this year and we have enough stuff to bring home now that we have Noah, we've decided that if we were going to do presents this year that we wouldn't bring them with us (well we'll shop for stocking stuffer at home but that is pretty much probably going to be it.) Anyhow yesterday I watched Tom run around like a 5 year old on Christmas day!!! I must say it was the greatest thing to watch and made me feel really good that he was that excited about everything. This is what Tom got for Christmas this year. As for me I haven't gotten my gift yet but Tom is getting me a Camera lens for my new camera which I can't wait for!!!! I am hoping to have it before we come home in December, crossing my fingers. I must say his gift is a lot of fun. We were up till 1am playing the wii. Good thing the time went back an hour last night.