1st Thanksgiving (picture overload)

This year I have SO much to be thankful for. 2.5 months ago I could not have imagined my life being any better than it already was. I always knew I wanted to be a mom, but I had NO idea just how rewarding it would be.

I am so incredibly thankful for my wonderful husband, my beautiful baby girl and all of our extended family. My parents, brother and all of the Warrens. They're not my blood family, but I really get homesick for them all the same.

I am so thankful to be the heck out of Elko :-) I love the Salt Lake City area and our new home. I'm really enjoying all the new people I've met!


Moving On...

This year I changed up our menu just a tad bit. I followed a couple of recipes from the same source.

Green Beans:
I normally hate green beans, but found a recipe I wanted to try instead of green bean casserole. It turned out GOOD. Like I actually had two helpings. I normally never finish the first! I made the dish with fresh green beans and shallots.

Cranberry Sauce:
Then I wanted to try making cranberry sauce from scratch instead of buying jellied in a can. It turned out omg yummy!

I always make the gravy and this year it turned out the best, imo.


Dinner Rolls:
I made the absolute easiest dinner rolls ever, which was a bad idea since I seem to be addicted to them.







I took a million pictures since it's Jocelyn's first Thanksgiving! They're totally in random order. I had to include all of the last 3 because they were so cute :) She's such a happy girl!

Etsy

I will be opening an etsy shop soon! As soon as I can come up with a cute catchy name for it. :-)

I have a few things ready to go and will also take special orders.

This will be mostly baby/toddler items, mostly girly :).

Some of the items I will have listed: (NO knitting, it takes way too long)
Flower and Ribbon headbands
-silk
-satin
-crochet

Baby Bracelets

Binky Clips

Tutus

I'm thinking maybe burp cloths and nursing covers if I have time.
Maybe a knitted kids hat if I like you and have time. :-)


Name possibilities: (I'll probably go with none of them)
BabEssentials
Sunshine Baby Treasures
Butterfly Kisses Boutique
Maya's Memories

I'm not very good at coming up with creative catchy names. I'd love input.

SLC Mommies

I found a playgroup in my area and today Jocelyn and I went to our 2nd playgroup date! I meant to blog after the 1st one and forgot :) If you can imagine that!

Jocelyn LOVES babies and little kids. She just stares at them with this look of adoration and then gets this HUGE grin on her face and starts cooing. SO. SO. CUTE!! AND. Both times we attended playgroup, I actually liked every single mom there. I know. That sounds pretty snotty. But come on. How often do YOU attend, well, anything and actually like everybody there? See. It's not just me ;)

So, I'm pretty excited!! Jocelyn and I have made some new friends and really having fun. I took my camera with me today but didn't take any pictures. So I stole these pictures from the host. This little girl was the host's oldest daughter, she and Jocelyn adored each other. Ohmygosh, it was SO cute to watch them. And isn't that little girl just beautiful?








She also LOVES her bumbo and LOVES LOVES LOVES the fish tank. It's really pretty awesome. If she gets fussy, we can go stand in front of the fishtank and she calms down and just watches them. So I did a little rearranging and put a table next to the fishtank so that I could put her bumbo next to it.


She also loves being cuddled up in the moby wrap. Which is GREAT when I need to get stuff done around the house. I let her face out like this when we're at home. This is also SUPER for when we go out, I turn her the other way so we're tummy to tummy and she can people watch until she falls asleep. This works WAY better than putting her in a carseat, which she hates, plus I'd just much prefer to hold and cuddle her :)



The Sophie and one other dolly are really the only toys she sort of plays with right now. I think this is cute, looks like she's hugging her Sophie :)


Oh daddy! Why is it everytime I turn around he's holding her like this? LOL Apparently it's more comfy than it looks lol. And daddy has actually changed a few diapers this week! Even a dirty one! YAY DADDY!! I told him that changing a diaper may very well be the sexiest thing he's ever done :)


Just being cute :-)

Mmmmmmm MMmmmmmmmmmmmmm Good!!

I made roasted butternut squash soup again. OH MY GOSH, It's so yummy!!!! I think I could probably eat a little everyday until it's no longer in season. Seriously. I made a HUGE pot of it and plan to devour it ALL. I made it a couple weeks ago and put a little too much pepper.

I'm starting to get super excited about Thanksgiving!! I love cooking on the holidays (definitely not the cleanup). This will be my 5th year making everything myself. My first year I thought every meal had to be made from scratch. haha :) We almost didn't eat because it took sooooooo long!! Like I even set out bread to dry for stuffing/dressing and I don't even like it! However, buying a few items in a box or can totally feels like cheating. Doesn't mean I won't do it :)

Our Weekend Adventure

We took Jocelyn to get her ears pierced!! Ahh I felt SOOO guilty and selfish making her sit through that, but oh my gosh it's so cute! She cried the second this stranger got in her face trying to mark her ears. It took forever to get it right b/c she was so wiggly and crying her little eyes out :-( When I finally approved and he pierced those cute little ears, I turned my head and closed my eyes!! I couldn't bear to actually watch. lol She screamed when they punched through, but was perfectly fine the second I got up from the chair and walked away.

She sorta did the same thing at her dr. appt. She was all smiley and chatty until the second the doc walked in. She's not a huge fan of perfect strangers. Which is good (mostly). It's probably good I'm now a stay at home mom (for a million reasons), I don't think she'd do so well at daycare/babysitters.





Blowing spit bubbles is her newest thing.


Her expression totally cracks me up :) She makes the funniest faces!

2 Month Appointment

Jocelyn had her 2 month appointment today, poor baby :-( She got 3 shots, a combination of a million things so she's been sleeping the better part of the afternoon/evening. However; only in my arms. The second I try to put her down she starts whimpering :(

Anyhow, the dr told us she was measuring 6 weeks ahead and even acting like a 4 month old with her rolling over and attempts to sit on her own and stand! Yay! So we're doing good! She's not the biggest baby ever (12.6 lbs, 23 inches) or smartest/most advanced but she's higher than average so far in all of the above. We think she's a little smarty :)

2 months

My baby is 2 months old today!! Man time flies!