Crazy week

I need to have a lot of patience to post here. The pictures never download the way I want so it takes me FOREVER! But again I'll leave the pictures backwards and just go from there! This last week has been just CRAZY! We went to Salt Lake last Monday because Bryan had another interview with Wells Fargo for a personal banker position, and because he didn't speak Spanish or was a transfer, they were having a hard time find the right fit for him, but he kept trying. He came back to work on Tuesday and I stayed because Tiffany had her surgery on Thursday. I was trying not to freak out about it, and I'm SO glad my friend Paola was able to go with me. She kept talking and distracting me the whole time so I was actually pretty calm, but it was kinda traumatizing seeing my baby girl taken from me by some stranger. She cried a lot when they took her and that broke my heart. The surgery only lasted 30 min. since all they had to do was cut her belly button and make a couple of stitches where the hernia was coming out. When they call me she was just waking up from the anesthesia and by the sound of her voice I could tell that she cried a lot until they were able to put her to sleep. She just wanted to be held the entire time and right when I picked her up, her IV came out and there was blood all over (including my clothes!). As soon as they took that out she went right to sleep again. I'm glad they gave her enough local anesthesia though because she never felt a thing! By the time we got back to my friend's house she was already waking up and moving normally. I was so relieved that her recuperation was awesome and she never felt any pain! I'm going to take the bandage tomorrow and I hope everything will look good so we don't have to worry about it anymore!

When Bryan went back to SL to pick us up he ended up having another interview with Wells Fargo, just him and two managers. He said the interview went REALLY well, and they seemed pretty excited, and if he didn't get it this time he was probably going to stop applying and try something else. But just yesterday he received the call with the job offer, and the lady said it will most likely be in Heber City (the other option was Park City). We have been jumping for joy since and today he got to give his 2 week notice at work, which he's been dreaming about doing pretty much since he started working here! We're now in the process of finding a place to live there and figuring out how we're going to do with packing and moving and all that fun stuff. WISH US LUCK! It's going to be crazy, but since it's for the better, we're super excited!

Before we came back home we had my friend Paola take some family pictures...she is just so talented and did an amazing job even though it was cold and Tiff didn't really feel like taking pictures! Here are some of my favorites...

Isn't this the perfect father-daughter picture? I think she will treasure this one forever! I know I will.


This one was the day of Tiff's surgery, after we got back and she started to get back to normal.
This one was before the surgery, since now she can't take baths because of the bandage...
We went to this really cute store with a bunch of crafty decorations and there was some bedroom setups for display, so we asked if we could take a few pictures of her there.
This is what she did pretty much the whole time we were there. She learned how to open and close their doors...good thing here in our apartment the door knob is round and she can't quite open it yet.
This was supposed to be the first picture. We had to be at the hospital super early and she had woken up in the middle of night so she was very upset that she wasn't asleep and that there were strangers coming in and out and touching her. She had this mad look in her face the whole time and this outfit is what they made her wear before she went in. Doesn't this picture just brakes your heart?!

My little model!

I have no idea what's going on here, but I haven't been able to download photos to my blog. Is this happening to anybody else? When it finally worked it downloaded 3 of each. I'm about to give up, so I'm just gonna leave these pictures!

My sweet husband just bought me a 1 TB of external hard drive, which is allowing me to finally do TONS of things with my computer, including digital scrapbooking! I'm still learning, and what I have the hardest time with is photo editing, but I'll get there! I was so excited to start working on it that I went and took some pictures of Tiffany downtown! Ok, actually Bryan took these pictures! He is so much better at it than I am, so I was just playing with Tiff to make her laugh and stuff. I think they turned out adorable, and I can't wait to take more pics...I just don't think the weather sill stay this nice for much longer!

I'm watching all kinds of tutorials I'm finding online, and if anybody has any tips for me, I'll love to hear them!

We finally rescheduled Tiffany's surgery for the 19th of this month. I'm kinda scared, even though I know it will be a simple procedure, but it is still surgery. I just want her to get better before all the holidays coming up and specially our trip to Brazil in January.

Other than that life is just great. I'm really adapting to our life here in Rock Springs (even though we're looking to move and I'll do it in a heartbeat!) but for now it's good. Tiffany is growing more and more everyday. She still doesn't talk much except for au au (doggy), vovo (grandma and grandpa), mama, dada, tata (bye bye), and lots of babbling that we have no idea what it means, but we love to hear her talk away! She signals a lot more than talks and it's getting easier to understand what she wants. She still loves to be held, specially when I'm cooking. She just got 4 more teeth, and these bothered her the most, poor thing!

Anyways, she is still just so much fun, and I think even more now that she plays with us.

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Trick or Treating!

Wow, another month is gone and I haven't updated this blog yet! The disk C in my computer is so full that I'm having a hard time doing anything on it, specially download and upload pictures!
But we had a really fun Halloween. I bought this costume for her and didn't even know if we would get to do anything, but then I found out that the stake was going to have a Trunk or Treating and dinner, and it ended up being TONS of fun! Tiff really enjoyed trick or treating...half way through she caught on the fact that people would put candy in her bag so she would not let go of it! It started to get heavy though, so she would just drag it across the parking lot! It was the cutest thing, she would just wonder around, and I think she was just excited to be outside and free since she's been kinda sick and we haven't taken her out much.
This was the morning of Halloween when I tried her whole outfit to see if the warm sweat shirt and pants would match and keep her warm enough! She was excited to be wearing it, cuz anything she puts on and you tell her "So cute" she loves and feels all pretty!We first went downtown where they had a pumpkin patch set up and some of the stores were doing trick or treating. Tiff didn't know what to think then so I couldn't get her to smile in any of the pictures.
She was just adorable walking around with that little bag!
This was later at the Church when we went Trunk or Treating.
I don't know why this picture is turned, but anyways, here she had already figured out that she could get candy out of people's bowls.
One of the sisters set up her things in one of the rooms inside the church, which I wish everybody had done cuz it was getting pretty cold outside.
Playing with her candy when we got home. I never really give her candy, so she didn't know she could eat them, she just loved playing with them!Here's a random picture! I set up her little play area in her room, but since we're montly out in the living room she hasn't been playing with her toys much. She doesn't like to play alone, so she'll bring a couple of toys out to the living room so we can play with her.

September has come and gone...

These pictures are totally backwards but last time I tried to change the order it took me forever so I'll just leave it like this!
These are still a recap from September, which we spent mostly in Bear Lake. Bryan went hunting for a whole week and then there were the Birthday preparations, so we stayed there the whole time. It was a lot of fun...Tiff started to adapt really well, probably because of all the room she had to walk around, the dogs she got to play with and all the attention! Since she started walking she turned into quite the outgoing baby. I was really surprised because she's always been soooo attached to me, so it's nice to see her going with other people!

I just love this picture! I bought her this pair of glasses and have been teaching her how to wear them. She loves to put them on and if she's outside doing something she'll even leave them on! She is such a girly girl...I love it!
We stayed at Bryan's uncle Lane and they have a projector where they mostly play XBox but since they were gone, Tiff got to watch her DVD's on it and she just LOVED the huge image on the wall. She would just stand right in front of it hypnotized...it was super cute!
Here's daddy practicing (down) and getting ready to leave (up). He was SO excited to go becaused it had been two years since he went hunting and he could just hardly wait. They didn't get anything because it was still too hot but I think they still enjoyed the whole man vs wild experience!

It's always hard to get all three cousins together, but this day they all just happened to be there so I decided to take some pictures...it was the funniest thing! Tiff just wanted to lay agains Boden, she would not sit up. Boden was extremely bored so this is the best smile I got out of him, and Gage was dying to crawl out of there!

I think we got to make some really good memories...we had some good times, and now we're home again! I can't believe there's snow outside...I'm so not ready for winter just yet, but I guess I don't have an option anymore! We always take family pictures during the fall because it's Bryan's favorite season, but I don't know if we'll have a chance to find fall leaves this year! So sad!