HAPPY NEW YEARS!

The reason we almost didn't go home for Christmas~

BUT we did make it home and we had a great time! We were snowed in at my parents on Christmas Day and pretty much the whole day after...the snow plow came at 4:30 in the afternoon.

Alyssa playing with Britta in a little girls heaven!





We opened the presents from Jake's parents and Sally's family the night before we left. Lyssie got her Christmas jammies from Gramma and Grampa and Duck slippers from her Bernhisel cousins.


Thanks to all! We had a great time with all the fam!

sO sMArT!

Lately Lyss has been doing the smartest things! Today we were driving to church and she kept saying bite, bite. I asked her what she wanted a bite of and then turned around to look at her and she had her eyes all squinty and said it again. I then figured out that she was saying bright and wanted her sunglasses on! Holy cow!
She is starting into the pretending stage too! I don't know when kids usually start this, but I thought it was older. Tonight she was pretending to wash our hair. She would go in the bathroom and put her hands up by the sink and wait a minute, then run back into the living room and rub her hands in my hair. It was so funny. The other day we were at Walmart and she was pretending to be a kitty. Really cute, but disgusting cause she was on all fours on the floor.
And it is official....she is in nursery! Today was the official and she did great and the nursery leader even gave her a Christmas cookie and a chain to count down till Christmas. I'm so excited since Jake is now in the Young Mens and has to go to class with them and I have to go to Young Womens.

Too Tricky!

This morning while I was getting ready for the day, Jake gave Alyssa an orange and she brought is upstairs. I was in the middle of something, so I told her to wait just a minute. Jake put her up on our bed and the next thing I know she has peeled the orange (a clementine) and is eating! I thought it was too cute. She officially doesn't need me anymore if she can peel her own orange...I still have Jake start mine!


Me and my birthday cake....Jake made it for me!

I love my child, I love my child, I love my child

This week has been very trying for me. First of all~ it has lasted for like an eternity!! I don't know what's up with that, but it has. Part of it I'm sure was that fact that Lyss has more more unpleasant than pleasant. She is whiny, booby and mean, especially in the morning, (which Jake blames on me cause I am not so much a morning person.) I don't know if she is getting teeth, I thought I saw a canine coming in today so maybe. Or if she has an ear infection. Or both.
HOWEVER- I do have some things to brag about on her. One day we were going for a walk and she needed her hat. I couldn't find it so I asked her. She said it was in the car and she was right! Then I couldn't find her jacket so I asked her where it was and she ran to the bathroom and it was in there because that is where she took it off! I would say that is pretty smart! She talks so well and I have started having her repeat prayers and she is so cute about it. TOday at Wal-mart I was trying some shoes on her. I got them on and stood her up in them. SHe started trying to pull them off and I asked her if, " Do you like them or not?" Lyss replied very emphatically "NOT"! Jake and I busted up laughing!
She love Ring Around the Rosies, which she learned in nursery, and she runs around in a circle singing it!She can be such a hoot!
I do love her to death and we will all make it through. I just keep telling myself that she is only little for a while and that I will wish she was little again. So just enjoy her, the good and the bad!

All Dolled Up!

Lyssie in her Christmas Dress.

The other day I had to make cookies, so Lyssie was up on the cupboard helping me dump in ingredients. I was so cute. Then she wanted to wear an apron like me. She is just too cute lately and does the funniest things!
Some funny things she says and does:
Today at dinner she started to sing "Itsy Bitsy Spider" all by her self.
She says "Chritmas"
She says "Gramma" and "Bampa"
THe other day she got hold of my phone and wanted to call Gramma. She loves to talk on the phone and talks alot!

Home for the Holidays

For Thanksgiving we made the trek to Lovell to be with the fam. We had alot of fun seeing everyone and we got to see Josie for the first time. She is so cute and sweet and put up with Lyssa's "mothering skills!" Lyssa's new thing is to wrap her dolls up and pat them and such. So she did alot of the to Josie. But she did have alot of fun with her. She was constantly talking about the baby and if she was sleeping. She hated when I would hold her though. I guess she'll just have to be an only child!!
We ate ALOT of good food, got some shoppiing in on Black Friday and gamed it up almost every night. Thanks for the good time everyone!
Somehow these are the only pictures I ended up with....but kudos to me for remembering my camera at all!!