Gingerbread House Building and Decorating

We decided this year was the year to start making gingerbread houses. :) Paisley's really into helping with baking and decorating (and building and fixing), and pretty much everything. She's also very into posing and saying "CHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESE"













She was very good about using the candies as building materials rather than eating them, too. We snacked on leftovers when construction was complete.

YAY!

Ok.. now blogging became easier again. Since we got back from our trip, my iPhoto wasn't syncing properly with my Flickr, which is what my blogging program uses for my photos. Way easier that way. For the last few posts I've had to manually upload the photos, one by one, resizing them as I went. Which is a tedious task.. I'd get one uploading (and it'd take a whlie), so I would walk away and do something else... forgetting... so I was uploading 1 photo every few hours.. hehe. Now it will be swoosh, and I can finish the trip photos.. and tackle the rest of the "since the trip" photos (and a few batches from before we went even).

Ok.. back the trip..... where was I? Right.. we talked about Paisley and the beach. She keeps asking me "we go to the beach?" about every 2nd morning still.

How about some "who was there" shots.. family pics, and lots of awkward family poses...


The anniversary couple.... (Grandma and Grandpa)



We're in Mexico!




A couple night-time family shots





Some out and about photos:

Grandma and Grandpa



Grandpa and Auntie Melissa



Posing on the beach:

Our family



Auntie Melissa and "Uncle" Matt




Grandpa and Grandma


Uncle Matt??? No photo of Uncle Matt Y by himself

(Maybe a good point to say that Paisley has 2 Uncles... and an honorary "Uncle". All are names Matt.... Matt Y, Matt S, and Matt O... she'll be very confused one day..)


Everyone:







OK... it felt VERY cheesy doing the last shot... but so worth it!


Oh.. this is a great one... loitering outside the washrooms...



Uncle Matt and Grandma:




Grandma, Grandpa and Paisley:



That's all I have for posed photos for today... but guess what? I'll do another post tomorrow... that's right!

2 posts in 2 days... Most definitely!
3 posts in 3 days.... probably
4 posts in 4 days... I'll try
5 posts in 5 days.... I'll maybe try.

Slacking

Yes I've been slacking. But really I have nothing to post. We haven't really left the house since Friday, and we haven't come across any new developmental milestones. So thus, you get a boring text post.

Josh has been sick all weekend, with fever/chills, nasty cold. So he's been in bed a lot. He also took Monday off, and worked from home (so I guess technically that wasn't OFF, but he did have a 3 hour nap).

Paisley's just been playing, eating, and sleeping. Not so much of the sleeping. She hasn't been napping really well. But that may be because we haven't been leaving the house. We've switched her over to cow's milk now, and she's doing very well on it. And she eats what we eat for meals, mostly, I just top her off with some more pureed foods (not really pureed, but mushy. Something I can spoon feed her).

As for me, I've been sewing mostly. Made another rag quilt, and 3 mini rag quilts, as well as a baby sling, and some bean bags (well, actually lentil bags). Currently making a doll, but have been procrastinating finishing, because I need to embroider the face, and I've never embroidered before. Have fabric cut for another doll, and another rag quilt, as well as an apron. So those will be my next projects. I think I'm going to take a week, and just sew a bunch of summer clothes for Paisley, but that will have to wait til April.

We've also been making a list of household jobs we want to get done in the next month or so. Lots of little touchup, etc.

Now that I think about it, Paisley and I did go out for most of Saturday, we went looking at a few open houses (about a dozen). Didn't find anything that we liked though. I did see a house a couple weeks ago that is still on the top of my list, and I've also seen listings for a couple more I wouldn't mind going to see.

It's Monday!

Well, despite it being very difficult to get up this morning, we're up. Josh got home at 2 am, his luggage is still in Chicago. So they said they'll send it to Calgary today, then send it Air Canada to Lethbridge and call us when it gets here. You pay $15 to check a piece of luggage, and it doesn't show up. Oh well. They had some major delays traveling home yesterday.

Paisley and I were in Revelstoke for the week, so yesterday we drove home. It was actually a good drive, roads weren't bad at all, and I got even further caught up with the nearly 300 podcasts that are waiting for me. Only about 375 to go after listening to them on the way there and back.

Merry Christmas!!

merry christmas, originally uploaded by tyeoca.

First hockey game!

First hockey game!
Originally uploaded by Joshua Schroeder

Paisley got to see her first live hockey game tonight. She stayed for the first period, but got a little restless after the noise that came with the third Hurricanes goal. Paisley got her very own Lethbridge Hurricanes jersey before we left, but we didn't get any pictures of her wearing it yet.

Flames Fans

Flames Fans
Originally uploaded by Joshua Schroeder

It's been a while since we posted any photos, and I know the grandparents are anxious to see Paisley, so here's a quick one of us in our Flames outfits.

Going around in circles

Going around in circles
Originally uploaded by Joshua Schroeder

I was in Banff at the start of this week for a user experience conference. While there, we paid a visit to the Banff Springs Hotel and had a little fun with our cameras. This is one of the results.

Josh got to come home early today

Oh crap, originally uploaded by Kim Siever.

Well due to "events" on campus, Josh only had to work half a day today.

Halloween Party

Halloween Party, originally uploaded by Joshua Schroeder.

Daddy's Penguin.

Yet even more story time!

Paisley101, originally uploaded by tyeoca.

Even more story time

Paisley104, originally uploaded by tyeoca.

More story time!

Paisley102, originally uploaded by tyeoca.