Remember how I told you that I had to finish that Natural Disasters class in four days? Well, I got the results back today and after all the stress and heartache I got a B!!! I did not even think I was going to pass and I got a B!!! Oh on a side note, I got an A in my Family Finance class.

Grace and I went down to Temple Square last night to see the Christmas lights. It was amazing and INCREDIBLY crowded. I have never seen so many people down there, and I have even been down there for Conference!!! It was fun we parked down at The Gateway, wandered through there a bit, watched the water show at the olympic plaza fountain and then headed up to the Temple. It was beautiful and there were people everywhere, I wished that I had opted for the baby sling instead of the stroller because manuvering around all those people was insane! We quickly walked through and then headed back to the mall because Grace's hands were freezing and she was getting pretty tired!!! I tried to keep her hands wrapped up under the blanket she was wrapped up in but she refused. We had a very good time and really enjoyed seeing the lights. It was the first time in a VERY long time that I had been down to see the lights.

We woke up to snow this morning and I have decided that I really need to invest in a new snow shovel because the one I have is awful and I should probably also buy salt. I hate snow, yes its pretty to look at but its a pain in the neck to have to deal with. Grace is fascinated by it. She sat in the front room and watched it fall while I was out attempting to scrape it off my car and get myself dug out. I'm afraid that winter is here to stay.

Happy Holidays!

Grace and I headed out to my parents house today to take some holiday photos. Grace is wearing my first pair of Ruby Slippers!

10 Months Old

Grace is 10 months old today, and she's wearing 18month size clothes!! I never imagined that my little tiny baby, whose skin was too big for her when she was born just ten short months ago would get to the point where she would be double the size she is "supposed" to be in. She's HUGE! And she's getting another tooth! She's been having a hard time with it, fever and runny nose AGAIN! I feel so bad for her and am doing as much as I can to keep her comfortable. She's a pretty good sport about the whole thing though.

Doesn't she look so CUTE? She's learning so quickly and she's starting to try to pull herself up so she is standing next to the couch and she loves to crawl on top of me when I'm down on the ground playing with her.

Grace and I have been spending a lot of time in the kitchen lately trying to come up with something new and wonderful, unfortunately the only thing I have really seceded in is making a mess and catching my oven on fire, TWICE! I did come out of the disaster today with a pretty decent Orange Chocolate Cake that my neighbors said was pretty good. Grace and I also sat down and watched Wall-e last night. She actually watched it and was fascinated! Now I want to watch Hello Dolly!

Life has a funny way of sneaking up on you.

For instance, I took a look at my Geology class last week and double checked a few things and found out that it was not due at the end of NEXT week it was due YESTERDAY... so the past few days of my life have been spent pouring over a text book on natural disasters and attempting to retain enough information from the nineteen assignments I had to do to take FOUR exams all in three days! Go me!

Grace is getting bigger everyday it seems and she is starting to pull her self up and now when you hold her hands she will take steps!!! That's what I get for letting her socailze with kids her own age that can walk!!!

I can hardly believe its already Decemeber!!! Grace and I have been to the park almost everyday this week taking advantage of the unseasonably warm weather, although it was rather chilly today.

Grace and I are getting ready for the holidays, the wreath is hanging on the front door, the tree is up and decorated beautifully (thanks Mom and Anna!) the nativities are out one for me and one for Grace (her's she can chew on and be completely happy) and of course my menorah is up :) Now its time to start gathering addresses so we can start sending out cards. That should be fun to include the letter about how our year went... Rolling my eyes... this should be interesting.

Tonight its too much work to post any pictures and since I have been lazy ish (if finishing two exams, making four pies, cleaning the apartment and keeping Grace entertained is lazy) I have not been writing much in the blog.

Grace has been teething, she has tooth and its poking through! You can see it when she smiles, well almost. She thinks its the strangest thing in the world and she is always trying to put something in her mouth to use that new tooth. She also discovered how a straw works today! Remarkable really she sucked on it and her eyes got HUGE as if to say that is sooo cool mom! She is really getting into the crawling its the strangest thing to put her down in the front room soi can run to the bathroom then come out and find her under the kitchen table or in her bedroom trying to eat and tear apart her books.

We are excited for Thanksgiving at my parents house. I have even gone out and bought baby food turkey for her! Fun Fun Fun!

Anxious?

This little girl keeps getting bigger and bigger! She is 23 pounds and that meant it was time for a new carseat, Grace decided to try a hat on while we were shopping for the carseat. She left the hat on only long enough for me to snap the picture.She loves that she faces forward in the new seat! She likes being able to watch me drive and see where we are going, she gazes out the window with the funniest looks on her face sometimes, we were heading through the canyon when my friend snapped this one for me. (I do not take pictures while I'm driving that's just not safe!)

Unfortunately I can't figure out how to flip this picture so its upright but I thought you would enjoy seeing Grace helping me decorate the tree nonetheless. She was in charge of helping me untangle the garland, in reality I think she made more of a mess than anything but she had fun, and that' the real point isn't it?
Now, I know what you must be thinking. Emily put up a Christmas tree at ALL let alone in the middle of Novemeber. Well the tree has been riding around in the trunk of my car for the last week or so and I decided to just give in and put it up since I needed to reclaim my trunk! It was fun to pull it out and find some ornaments and whatnot. and NO we did not listen to christmas music while putting it up. (in case you were wondering)