Thanksgiving week

We had a fun Thanksgiving. We didn't know if we were going to be able to go anywhere until pretty much the day of, but we ended up going to Bear Lake and be with family. The food was DELICIOUS... and that was one of the reasons we went, because if we would've stayed home I would've had to cook Thanksgiving dinner for our little family and I wouldn't even know where to begin! Tiffany had a LOT of fun with her cousin Gage, and now that both are walking, they interacted a lot more, it was cute to watch!

They both loved the pillows on the floor and kept falling on them and on each other...we were all just laughing our heads off watching them.

Aunt Shannon hadn't seen them since they were little babies, so she had fun playing with both of them.

Gage is so tall, he is 2 months younger than Tiff but they are pretty much the same height.

They had so much fun that of course someone had to get hurt. Tiff went to hug Gage who was standing right in front of a corner...well, they both feel down, he hit the back of his head and Tiff got the worst of it hitting it right on her forehead. At first I didn't think she got really hurt, but she was crying so much that I picked her up...when I looked at her again she had this HUGE bump on her head and everybody freaked out! It grew so fast it was scary and I didn't know what to do. We tried to put something cold on it so it would go down but she only left it on for a little bit. Luckily the swelling started to go down pretty fast and the next it was pretty much gone. Needless to say that after that Bryan and I were panicking with every move of hers...
Here's how I can get Tiff to eat more and in turn sleep longer at night: I'm trying to let her eat more by herself. I really don't like dirty babies and dirty kitchen floor, but I'm working on it. SHe really does like to feed herself, now I just need to think of more things she can manage to put in her mouth by herself.
It's been way different packing this time with a toddler around the house trying to play with the boxes and everything that is in the boxes!
Just two days ago we had the Relief Society Christmas Dinner. I was invited to participate in the planning committee and I had a lot of fun. Everybody came together to make this activity a success.
After the dinner we had a presentation, but since I was the one in charge of the curtains and of setting the stage for each part, I didn't get to take pictures, but it was about the Women at Christ's Birth. I had never thought about the perspective that these women had, since they are never really mentioned in the scriptures, but we had the mother of Mary, and the mother of Joseph, and the Inn keeper's wife and a few others talk about their feelings during that occasion. It was a very neat program and it gave me a different perspective to Christmas.

Now about the big changes in our lives right now...we still haven't decided on a place to live. We're been looking at a few places and next week Bryan will go look at some of them and then hopefully we'll find the best one. He starts Monday on his new job, and yesterday was his last day at his old job. Needless to say he is super relieved and excited to do something better. He is going to be in Salt Lake and Heber next week for training and I'll be here doing all the packing and cleaning (YAY :( ). It's going to be pretty crazy, specially because it is right before Christmas. We haven't done anything to prepare for it yet, we haven't even bought any gifts or made any plans yet, so we'll see what will happen. I guess moving will be our best gift right now, and whatever comes with it will be a plus!

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.