Happy Holidays!!!

This was Skylr's first Christmas and we had lots of fun. Christmas Eve was spent at my parents house. I made a Turkey and my mom helped with the side dishes. After dinner we watched a couple of movies...well Tim and Craig did, my mom, Skylr and I slept. When Christmas morning came it was snowing. We opened presents just the three of us and then visited family during the day. Sky was so cute about opening presents, she didn't really know what to do about the paper. She got better as the morning progressed, but was a pro by the time we visited Tim's mom. Skylr got lots of really cool toys and extremely cute clothes. Tim and I got some really fun stuff too. We had a great Christmas and we were even more happy to have been able to spend it with family. Thank you to everyone for the gifts, thinking of us and for your love. Happy Holidays!!!

And on a side note...Skylr got her first tooth about a week and a half before Christmas, then received her second tooth Christmas Day. EXCITING, but very surreal.

Seven Months!!!

Skylr turned seven months on Sunday. I just can't believe how the months are flying by. She is doing so well though. She sleeps through the night, and has for a few months now. She loves solid foods, and she shows her love for food with those little cheeks. Sky is always so happy, she is such a good baby. We love to play with her as a family...we put her in the clothes basket and made a little train, she thought that was fun and seemed to have a good time. Skylr loves to talk and has found her big girl voice, she screams a lot just to hear herself and to let us all know that she is still in the room. lol. It took me seven months, but I finally have a scrapbook for Sky, and I will have her all caught up in a week or so. Skylr has been trying to hold her own bottle for a while now, I was able to finally get a picture of her succeeding...even though she can't hold it for to long, she did a great job.

Christmas Is Around The Corner!

We are preparing for Skylr's first Christmas. I have half way made her stocking. The Lucore's all have matching stockings that have our names hand stitched on them. I started this tradition when Tim and I got married. It has been fun. We have our tree up, I put it on a table behind our couch so that if Sky learns to crawl by Christmas, she wont get into the tree. Tim and I have already picked out a new pair of PJ's for Sky to receive on Christmas Eve, and we have yet to really get much Christmas shopping done. This year I was given some Amish Friendship bread and I have decided to back and pass out some loafs as well as starter bags. We will also be passing out our family pictures. Skylr just got her 6 month pictures taken on Friday, she did great...like usual. She has been sitting up on her own since Sunday...we are very proud of her. Today she took some 2nd cousin pictures, there were 3 little girls including Sky...all under the age of 1 1/2. Sky was the only one to give a good smile more than once. I am very excited for this Christmas season, it is so nice to have my parents here and to start new traditions with each other. Well my parents have become a little more settled in so maybe they will tell you what they have been up to and continue to update their blog...fingers crossed (MOM...people want to know what you are doing, what is new and to learn more about your new place), lol, love ya mom.

Hope You Had A Great Thanksgiving!!!!

This Thanksgiving was Skylr's first, and she slept right through dinner...actually she woke up right in time for pumpkin pie. I made the pumpkin pie this year (from scratch) and it was fun...time consuming but it turned out good. I don't think I will make it that way again any time soon. This year we spent Thanksgiving at my grandparents house, we were accompanied by my parents, Tim's aunt Shawna, and my cousin Scott. We had a nice meal and had fun enjoying each others company. We took some family Thanksgiving pictures all decked out in red, my mom took them while we sat on the stairs...I think she did a good job...thanks mom!!! While we were waiting for dinner, Skylr played on the counter in the bathroom...she thought that it was pretty fun to look at herself in the mirror, she would give herself a cheesy little grin when she saw the little baby Skylr in the mirror. My mom, Skylr and I also got a couple papers and looked at the Friday ads, we did end up going to a couple of stores; but we went out after the rush...just us girls. Tim pretty much just relaxed and watched some football. Saturday we helped my parents move into there new house, my mom watched Skylr so that I could have all hands on deck. It only took three loads from the storage unit, two loads from our house, and two loads from grandma and grandpas house. My mom took Monday and Tuesday off so I helped her unpack and put away, we got the important areas done...kitchen, living room, master bathroom and master bedroom. So today (Wednesday) I took a little breather, i guess, I made some friendship bread, laundry (which isn't even close to being done) and visited my high school best friend who had her first little baby today (Jedsen Robert), he's a QT. Today Skylr and Darby had a little bonding time, Darby is so sweet...she will let Sky do whatever she wants, and Skylr just wants to put Darby in her mouth to give her big kisses. They love each other very much.

November

We have been laying pretty low for the past few weeks, although it feels like we have been pretty busy. When I reflect on the week I find that we did not do anything really interesting. Thursday Skylr and I picked Tim's mom up from an ENT surgery. She had a deviated septum that was fixed, Skylr and I took care of her all of Thursday and we had a good time. It wasn't fun to remind her to irrigate her nose, because she didn't like it very well. I sure do hate having to be the bad guy, but it has made the healing process better. She was a great patient and made my doctor duties easy. Friday night we went to a poetry reading for one of Tim's classes, Skylr was very welcomed and made a few funny sounds at just the right time, which made everyone laugh. I did have to leave because she got bored, so we walked around the Boise States Student Art Displays. Saturday we were finally able to go to Red Lobster so that I could eat my beloved shrimp, it was great and way fun. Tim and I had a great time with Sky. Tim was just playing with Sky a few hours ago and I caught Sky on camera being a goof. The flash kept catching her off guard so she would frown at me. Darby thought we were having lots of fun and wanted to join in, so Skylr grabbed Darby's head and pet her for a little bit. Darby is great with Sky, she will let her do anything....Tim and I are so glad, we must admit that we were a little worried about how well they would get along. They have become pretty good pal's, and as the days progress so does thier bond. This Saturday I am going to my High School friends (Tylene) baby shower, she is having a baby boy 12-4-08 and will name him Jedsen Robert Aldrich. After that we are taking family pictures for our Christmas card. we are very excited and have outfits all picked out. Sky will be having her 6 month pics done on Dec. 5. She is growing so much. Actually Monday are her 6 month shots, can't wait to see how much she ways and how tall she has gotten. I just can't believe how fast 6 months can fly.

Happy Halloween!!!!

We had a fun Halloween this year, first we went to a party at Tim's work which is were Skylr fell asleep on my lap. Then the Miller's and The Lucore's got together for dinner and a movie at our place and we passed out candy. Tim was a Motorcycle rider (he just put his riding gear on), I was a Witch, Skylr was Miney Mouse, Our dog Darby was dressed in a little Tuxedo, My mom was a cat, and Craig was a Doctor. We saw lots of cute costumes from the Trick-or-Treaters, and we missed out on all of the tricks...Bumber. ;) Our pumpkins turned out really cool, The football and vomating Jack-O-Lantern's were done by Tim. The traditional face was created by Craig and the Miller's name was carved by my mom. They looked great all lit up, the Trick-or-Treater's loved them. Can't wait 'till next Halloween.

New Traditions

Our family has decided to create new traditions now that we have become new little families. I think that canning has become our first tradition. As well as pumpkin carving, the boys got into it more than us girls, but i am sure that once Skylr is older and more kids are added to the mix, that it will become quit fun event. This weekend was full of fun, my mom and i happily made five bushels of apple into applesauce and successfully sealed all 38 jars. It was a long day, but very fun, Skylr loves the applesauce and was a very good girl for her daddy while my mom and i got to work. She played in a little exersaucer bug in the garage with us for a while until she fell asleep, which is when i captured her making the 'I love you' hand sign to me and her daddy. Skylr and Tim had a fun spending the day together while my mom and i canned, he had her laughing for a while, it was adorable. actually a few days ago we were in the kitchen and Darby kept walking by, right in front of Sky, and every time she went by Skylr would crack up. It was hilarious, i only wish we got it in film, we were way to entranced by her little laugh and the fact that it didn't take much for her to giggle.

She has been sitting up really well, once she finds her balance she can sit up for several minutes at a time. She loves to stand up, which would explain why she loves her jumparoo so much. Her new thing right now is to spit, she pushes out her saliva and makes noises, it's very funny,but i can already see her spitting her food out and making a mess. Speaking of food, she has been eating baby food for some time now and is doing great, she eats pretty fast and is upset if she isn't fed fast enough. she loves corn just like her dad and like all babies she very much enjoys her fruits.

Sunday after church my parents came to our house and had dinner. We carved 3 awesome pumpkins, One of the pumpkins Tim carved was huge so after he gutted it out we put Skylr in it and took some family pictures. She didn't like it to much but it sure was cute/funny. i will post the finished Jack O Lantern's along with Skylr's and the families costumes after Halloween. we all had lots of fun, we finished the night by treating ourselves to my famous and Delicious Carmel brownies..."They are the BEST brownies I have ever had in my life!!" says Tim. we had a fun weekend.

Skylr Rolled Over

We have finally caught Skylr on tape while she is rolling over. When she rolled over for the first time last Sunday, Tim and i missed it and we have been waiting for her to do it agian. I just happened to have to camera so i caught it all. We are ao excited about her meeting her mile stones. She is growing so fast.

Keeping it Easy

We haven't been up to much lately. Skylr and I have both had Dr. Appointments in the last week, we are both very healthy. Skylr is 17.9 lbs and 26 in. long. She has been doing extremely well being introduced to new foods, so far she has tried apple sauce, red potatoes from my grandparents garden, sweet potatoes, butternut squash and carrots from our garden. She seems to love them all, but likes her butternut squash the best...she even prefers it over apple sauce. That makes it way easy for me, her next food introduction is pears. My mom and I have picked apples from the orchard so that we can make apple sauce for both of our food storage's, but I wont be adding any sugar to mine so that I can give it to Skylr. It should be pretty interesting for the next couple of Saturdays, neither my mom nor I have made apple sauce and my grandma wont be there to help, I am sure we can manage. But then again you know what they say...one girl is a girl, two girls is a half a girl and three girls is no girl at all. We are going to be doing this as half a girl...lol. I also got a few pumpkins for Tim and Craig to carve while they watch Skylr so that my mom and i can work on canning. I got an extra pumpkin so that i can make my first pumpkin pie completely from scratch. I got a recipe that i like and i already know how to make my grandmas flaky pie crust, so i am way excited for Thanksgiving and Christmas to try out my pies. Next year my mom and i have decided that we will get together and start canning and drying earlier in the summer so that we can get more stuff..peaches, grapes, pears, pie filling apples, apples (for apple sauce), & apricots so we can make jams and jelly's and to dry and can. I will also make more pumpkin pie filling if i enjoy making it. I can't wait to try it out...i will let ya know how everything turns out. Oh...i started a blog for my parents, i have the link, you should check it out.

It is starting to act like fall so we are all bundling up more, Skylr hates it, but she looks so cute in her jacket, vest and beanie. She stays plenty warm when we go places becuase i put her in the sling, she uses my body heat...i stay nice and warm for that matter. Last week my grandma helped me pick out some fabric so that i could make slings. It was very easy, i was able to make two slings out ot 5 and a quarter yards of fabric. They turned out very nice and i enjoyed making them. Tim and i have also been on over drive building our food storage, we have established it well enough to just add a little at a time now. you should see all the cans of formula in our pantry, goodness it looks like we have quintes...lol. It does feel really good to have food storage though, we can't wait for my parents house to be built so that they can get all there stuff our of our house/garage. we will have so much space for all of our food storage, especially when my mom and i can next year.

Back From Utah

We were in Utah over conference weekend to attend a Mission reunion for Tim, in November he will have been home four years. He served in the Guayaquil, Ecuador mission. It was fun to see a few of Tim's mission companions and trainers. There was a lot of new things to learn as well as fun people to meet. Skylr slept through the whole dinner and was very tired when it came time for the mission president to talk. We were also able to spend the weekend with great grandparents whom have only seen Sky once before this visit. Now that we have been home, Skylr has started to eat baby food mixed with cereal. She seems to really like the apple sauce and she will kind of throw a mini fit if she gets too hungry and i don't feed her fast enough. She is still trying to get the hang of swallowing and still uses her tongue to move the food out of her mouth. She gets better at it every day though. It was funny, this morning i was eating cereal while preparing a bottle for Sky and she was in her Bumbo on the counter. Every bite i took of my breakfast she would open her mouth for a bite too. She was getting very frustrated that she wasn't getting fed, so i pulled out her apple sauce to make her feel better. She is getting so close to rolling from her back to her belly. She loves her feet and holds them tight. While we were in Utah her great grandma lu got her the cutest Halloween costume, but i am not going to reveal what she is going to be until i blog about what we did for Halloween. hehehe :) Before Skylr was born Tim's dad got her a Halloween costume that we thought would fit perfect...well the months were theoretically correct, but we tried in on her yesterday and it was beyond a tight squeeze. Good thing Lu got her a new (and extremely cute)one. Last weekend was Skylr's first pool experience and she loved it. When she was on her back in the water, she would kick up a storm and splash all over her face...what a goof. O ya last week we got Skylr's ears pierced...she cried for a minute, but she looks great and they don't bother her.