Saturday, December 29, 2007

Christmas cuteness/ new sweater




With Christmas over I figured that it was time to post some Christmas pictures. Anya really enjoyed opening presents and playing with new toys. She has mastered sitting straight by her self which she is really proud of.




This is by younger brother Parker and his girlfriend Christy, cute eh?


I have recently taken up knitting, and I have just completed my second project this cute little coat for Anya. It is the exact color of her eyes, and looks super cute on her, I am very pleased with it, so much so that I am now working on a little dress for her.



Thursday, December 27, 2007

Pre-Christmas

This post is late I know- but when visiting family it is hard to find time to post. We flew to Detroit last monday, the 17th on the way Anya got to take a picture with Santa in the Phily airport. It was really hot in the airport so we had to strip her down to her onesie, hence the no clothing in the photo.

Upon arriving in Vegas at my parents house, Anya immediatly underwent a haircut. She did not enjoy the restraint that was required so the section we needed to cut does not look great. She had a couple of sections on the back of her head that grew really long and looked funny.

Anya had lots of fun hanging out with my brothers that came up for a couple of days. Here she is with Parker, cute huh?

Saturday, December 15, 2007

Going Home for Christmas


We are leaving on monday morning to spend a month in north America. We will be splitting our time between my family in Vegas and Adam's family in Windsor. There will be lots of plane rides and people for Anya to smile at but it should be fun. We are really excited about Mexican food, Windsor pizza, shwarma, and a steak from Carabbas just to name a few. As we are leaving soon, I have spent the last few days preparing baked goods for christmas presents. I made my carmels for the relief society in our Branch and sent some with Adam to school and I made a whole bunch of no kneed bread for various friends at school and in the Branch. They look pretty cute with bows around them, I am including a container of honey butter with each one. Hopefully everyone loves them.


These pictures are just a few of Anya having fun in her jumper. She loves, loves, loves to jump. We will be bringing it with us to north America so those of you who see us will actually get to watch the fun.


Flight of the Conchords



Hey Folks,

If you enjoy dead-pan humor akin to the Office and to a certain extent Arrested Development, then check this show out on HBO. It is the only thing that I YOUTUBE or watch regularly in this hot-bed of ridiculous bureaucracy.

Adam

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Wiggles

Anya is a super wiggly girl at night. Her arms flare all over the place and her little legs are always kicking while she is sleeping. Pajamas are becoming problematic because she will often pull her legs up out of the pj legs and the they will get stuck in the middle, so she looks like a little ball of Anya. She fixed this problem last night. This is how we found her this morning.

Her legs were pushed through the holes between the snaps, but the snaps were not undone. it looked uncomfortable to me but she didn't seem to mind.

Thursday, December 6, 2007

Denmark



The three of us traveled to Odense Denmark last thursday. Adam had a conference that he wanted to attend, and the conference paid for his trip so we decided to make a family trip of it. It was actually fun, apart for the immense amount of travel time we put in just to get there. As you all know, we live way out in the middle of no where in Wales, to get to London we have to take a five hour train ride. To get to Denmark we then flew from London and then we had to take a bus and another train to actually get to the city we were traveling to. Needless to say, it was way too much travel time for a three day trip. Denmark is nice though, I was really suprised by the amount of people riding bikes. There were bikes everywhere, tons and tons of them, and nice bike lanes on every road. Also, oddly enough, nobody seemed to lock their bikes. There were entire parking lots full of bikes with only a few locked up. It was amazing. I really wish we could ride bikes here in Aber but there are way way too many hills and the streets are sooooo small and people drive way to fast, it would be super dangerous. I didn't take any picture while there. I did have my camera but as Adam was in meetings almost the entire time I didn't really have anyone to take pictures of, unless I attempted to sit Anya in random locations by herself and snap a shot of her. I decided that this would not be the safest option, so no pictures were taken. However, my mom has requested some updated shots of our little ham so here are a few.

This is how Anya watches me make dinner most nights. She really wants to be a part of the cooking process but is not very helpfull she she tries to put her hands in what ever I am making. Also, you should notice that she has become a thumb sucker. It is really cute and quite helpfull. I can now put her down for a nap by herself and she will fall asleep on her own. Yea!






Anyanka is such a ham. She love to have tons of attention from everyone around her, and she will totally entertain them all. We had a whole bunch of Adams fellow masters students over last night. For three hours she was passed from person to person playing with everyone. She was in heaven, smiling and laughing and playing with everyone. It's really funny to watch her