A visit to see Santa

So we took Hannah to the mall on Sat. to visit Santa Claus. She was so excited, that's all she could talk about was seeing Santa. Even while we waited in line she kept saying "SANTA, SANTA!" and would clap her hands. Then when they opened the ropes and let us in and we got closer to santa, something clicked and she started crying saying " NO, NO HELP PLEASE" as she clings onto Daddy's jacket. I told Ross to just sit her on Santa's lap or next to him and that it didn't matter if she was crying or not, because let's face it we've all got that picture of us screaming because our parents abused us and made us sit on Santa's lap right? Well this was Hannah's year! She was not having any part of it and wouldn't let go of Daddy, so Ross had to sit next to Santa too while I took a perfect picture, or not so perfect but pretty cute!

Then as soon as Ross let her down she ran to me and said "help please" and wanted me to pick her up. So I did and as we walked out she turned around to Santa with a big smile on her face, waved and said "Thank You! Bye Bye" Then outside of Santa's workshop they had a reindeer and she LOVED him! We got a few pictures of them together.

Finally a full set!

I love my nativity scene! I love setting it out every year and I love looking at it. We started the collection the first year we were married and have been adding to it ever year, since it's willow tree the sets are a little expensive. When Ross and I were at the mall a couple weeks ago he surprised me with the very last piece, the creche. I wasn't expecting him to do that this year but I'm glad he did. Finally after four years a full set! Thanks honey I love you!

Mall Fun

When we have nothing else to do (or no money) we take Hannah to the mall, on those days when she is just DYING to go somewhere. She LOVES it there. We take her to the pet shop first where she always has the MOST fun. Normally she just gets to look at the puppies through a window but I had them take out a small, very hyper puppy so that she could play with her. We got to play with her for about 15 minutes and then they came and got her, and of course Hannah cried, but it's nothing a GIGANTIC M&M cookie won't fix!

After our cookie we head down to the water fountain to throw pennies into the pond. Now in this pond they have several ceramic animals in and around the water. I turned around to talk to Ross for a second and then I hear "bye bye bunny!" I was thinking "bye bye bunny what the heck?" so I turned around to see this:

She set the bunny free. I said "Hannah why did you do that?" and she said "bunny swimming mommy" with a big smile on her face. I couldn't argue with that, it was just so cute.

Surprise it's a girl!

Yes we are having another girl. I thought for sure it was a boy in fact during the ultrasound I thought I kept seeing testicles :) haha but it must have been something else. Her heartbeat has always been in the 140s and today it was 138 so that was another indicator to me that it was for sure a boy. She was sleeping and didn't move a whole lot, even though she was being pushed on, I wonder if that's a good indicator that she will be a heavy sleeper(fingers crossed). She had her legs crossed the whole time so it was really hard for us to get a good look. The tech was pushing on her and wiggling my belly to try and get her to move and she wouldn't budge. So the tech had me turn to my side to see if we could get her to change her position, after a good 5 min. or so she finally uncrossed her legs for a second so we could take a peak. I was completly shocked when the tech announced that it was in fact a little girl. Ross actually saw it first and was so excited he says "it's a girl see the three lines" he's a proud daddy what can I say. It's funny how I never thought I would get a girl and now I will have 2. We are very excited! We have thought about names a little bit but we haven't decided on any yet. Here's a little sneak peak at our baby girl due March 29

kindof a front profile view

hand with her thumb sticking out

profile-it looks like this one has my nose. Hannah's was round and this one looks a little more pointy

A 3D shot that they did for us. They are more clear when they get more fat on them so it's hard to see. Her head is on the right if you look closely you can see her eyes, nose, mouth and her little hand curled up.

Halloween

Hannah was a duck this year. I bought this costume at a big consignment sale here that happens twice a year here. I fell in love with it as soon as I saw it and what was even better was that it was only 8 bucks. My favorite thing about it was the tail. It actually moved side to side when she walked, it was so freakin' cute! Anyways we started the night off with going to Nana and Papa Redfearn's big Halloween bash. They go all out every year. They transform their garage into an eating/party area, they have blow up decorations that all the kids love and they always have lots of food to enjoy. Which is a huge plus for the pregnant people :) We also have some pinata fun

and donut eating contest without using your hands, for the kids of course. Then we ended the night with trick or treating door to door. Hannah isn't smiling in alot of these because I couldn't get her attention long enough to take a very good picture, just too much going on for her to stop and take a picture.

The Chicken and the duck (aka Joshua Redfearn)

Just Hannah being cute

I gave Hannah some chips the other day and this is what I saw when I came back in the room.

She carries these animals (little people) everywhere in her bucket. She loves them. I guess they have to eat too right?

This one cracks me up. Not only are most of them eating around the bowl but the ones who aren't are in a line. I just had to share!

Wicked and Zombie Crawl

Last weekend we had the opportunity to go see Wicked here in Denver. A big, big thank you to Trent and Courtney (brother and sister in law for those who don't know them) for giving us the tickets to go. We had amazing seats, three rows from the stage! I wish I could have taken pictures, but of course they don't let you. I had heard of people not liking Wicked and they said it was a waste of money so I was never that interested in seeing it. Now that I have seen I don't know how you couldn't love it unless you don't like musicals and I love musicals! It was awesome and amazing! If you ever have the opportunity to go I highly recommend this play. Afterwards we were walking around downtown and we noticed people everywhere we dressed as Zombies. I tried to capture some of these people on my phone camera but I couldn't get a clear shot. So I found some of these pictures online a couple days later. Apparently here they gather every year to do a Zombie Crawl. They were trying to get 4000 Zombies to walk the long 16th street mall, I don't know what their actually number was but it was impressive to see how many people showed up for this. People actually dressed up their small kids and babies as Zombies. They also got together at one point and did Michael Jackson's Thriller dance. Then we decided to eat at the Hard Rock Cafe and the waiters were dressed as Zombies. Oh the things you see living in the big city! Warning: if you have small eyes around you may want to divert their attention to something else before you look at these pictures!