Christmas Shopping With Payton

Today Payton and I decided to pack up and head to Sanford to finish up our Christmas shopping. I did accomplish a lot but it was very stressful with Payton. She is now 15 months and wants to explore everything so for her having to sit in a stroller is not that exciting. Luckily we found this play area at the Sanford mall. It was very nice and I would recommend it to anyone. It was so funny watching Payton because she was having the time of her life. She would run up to other children and start laughing so hard… they would look at her like she was crazy! I just love how much personality she has and how she is always happy and laughing.

Good Ol' Wal-mart

My good friend Summer came over tonight and we made Christmas goodies. We needed to grab some extra material so we decided to go on a shopping trip to good ol' Wal-mart. I had just feed and bathed Payton and put her John Deer shirt on and was going to change her, but Summer said that she would be perfectly fine at Wal-mart like this. I thought these photos were just price less! Only at Wal-mart can you take a baby in a diaper and John Deer shirt and feel perfectly comfortable ;)…I just love that store!

Linda's Girl's Only Party

This year all of the boys went on a boy's only ski trip so Linda had a girl's only Christmas party. It was lots of fun and great to hang out with all of the girls and not have to listen to one word about sports ;). However, I do miss my Jonathon! I don't know how I am going to manage with out him in February when he goes to Brazil for 12 days :(.

A Night With The Beehives

The Beehives came over tonight and we had a night filled with Christmas fun. It is such a pleasure to work with these girls... they are so sweet, polite and funny!

We started the night with Brianna's game of dressing each other in toliet paper to make snowman... they were kind of scary snowman!

Then the girls decorated Gingerbread Man.

Then we made Reindeer Food... my favorite!

We ended the night with Nellie's game and it was so funny. The girls had to break up into two groups and make a Santa Costume out of red wrapping paper and white tissue. As you can see I have some fashionable girls in the group.

My Most Treasured Possesion

We took our family photos tonight and got to the park 25 minutes late so we only had 5 minutes of light to work with, but I guess it made a pretty background;).

O the fun of family photos;)

2007 Eustis Ward Christmast Party

Tonight was the Eustis Ward Christmas party and everything turned out very nice. Rhea did another a great job on planning an eventful night... Thanks Rhea!

Me and my Sister-in-law Rhea... such a great party planner!

Me and my Ward Sister;)

Payton playing with her friends.
My precious family!

Me and Debbie... the Best YW's President ever (Okay... tied with my sweet mother-in-law Linda;)!

Brianna and Payton dancing.

Payton Meets Santa

Tonight Jonathon and I took Payton to see Santa. She was a little scared of him but I enjoyed it;). I think she told him that she wants a new brother or sister ;). O... and a new phone charger.

The Cool Wise Family

How cool is the Wise family? Well... why don't you see for yourself : http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1232969285

Macie Kate is finally here!

Today Katelyn went into labor and had a beautiful little baby girl named Macie Kate at 6:29pm. Macie weighed 7 pounds 8 ounces (as much as Jayden did at birth) and was 21 inches long. She is just perfect! Katelyn had a rocky delivery but was rewarded with a very healthy little angel. It was so exciting being at the hospital as it brought back so many memories of when I had Payton. Having a child is such an amazing blessing from our Heavenly Father. Congratulations Katelyn and Michael!

Gaylord Palms

Tonight Jonathon, Payton and I went to the Gaylord Palms Resort to watch the holiday shows and walk around the hotels. What a beautiful hotel! I recommend it to anyone. We watched the holiday show and it was a little out of the ordinary for the Gaylord. It was a holiday show with a rock n roll band who sang some Christmas songs in a very interesting rock way. Very neat show but not a show that will leave you with a warm Christmas cheer feeling. After we watched the show we meet up with the White’s and Payton got to play with Grace. It was a great night and brought back so many memories from working there. I love watching Payton’s eyes light up now when she sees something interesting… she brings so much magic to our lives.

Garage Sale

I have wanted to do a garage sale for the last 6 months and finally got to the point where I made myself do it. I decided on last Monday that I was going to have a garage sale on Saturday and the only thing that would stop me would be if Katelyn had Macie… and well… no Macie so I had my first garage sale. Much to my surprise the sale was actually a blast! I got rid of a lot of old and useless stuff and had so much fun hanging out with my mom, Konnie, Summer and Payton. It was so much fun watching Konnie negotiable with people and marking stuff down to 5 cents with Summer. Payton was really good too! She played in her pack n play most of the time and would show off for the little kids that came over. The sale was so much fun that I told Konnie I would help her do one next weekend at her house.