Why did Eamon cross the road?

BECAUSE HE WAS WALKING!

Today, was such a fun day. As I glanced outside I noticed Brandon sitting in the middle of the golf course with sweet little Eamon, teaching him how to walk. He has been cruising in his walker and pushing his walker for quite sometime now, but it wasn't until today that he actually began walking all around.

He waddles like a little penguin and has to hold his stomach for balance, but it is quite the sight. Move out of the way, here comes trouble!

Welcome to the 80's

The other month I realized I was running out of contacts and needed to find the best deal for an eye exam to renew my contact prescription.

The best deal I found in the Sentinel Times was for a free eye exam, free pair of glasses and two boxes of contacts.

I thought wow this is a fantastic deal. Not only will I get contacts, I will also get a fancy pair of eye glasses. I was so thrilled, I headed down to the store and waited for quite some time to get my exam. It was run by Vietnamese, so I knew there were going to be some cunning situations coming my way.

I first off, had the choice of selecting from two rows of the same exact glasses, except for the fact that the frames were different colors, but don't worry I could get an upgrade for fifty dollars more and get any frame I wanted in the store. (That would defeat the whole purpose of getting a good deal so I said no thank you.) I then proceeded to try on my new lovely glasses and to my astonishment I thought hey, these aren't that bad. Until all of the vietnamese ladies began saying those glasses are too big for your head. Your head so small, glasses so big. (please say these in an accent, it helps bring it to life. Then for fifteen dollar more, I could get UV Ray lenses.

To make it even more of a story, I couldn't pick up my lovely selection for two weeks. In my neices words, she said "Those are big. Those aren't fancy; they're big. Let's say to Sienna, 'Crazy glasses. Those are too big. Return them to the store.' Kaia Leigh Christensen doesn't like those big glasses on Sienna Christensen."

Anyways, long story short, presenting my new glasses.

Here a quack, there a quack.

Saturday turned out to be a beautiful day. We thought about going to the beach in our 80 degree weather, by the time I got home from my fun craft day, we thought why not drive around to the many lakes here and feed the ducks.

This was our first experience taking Eamon and it was so fun. He was so cute, as we would hand him the bread and he would hurry and eat it, instead of throw it in for the ducks.

I also couldn't pass up mentioning that Brandon will be starting his job with Charles Schwab on Nov. 30, I am so happy for him and his hard work. Yea for Jobs!

Christmas Card Giveaway

I normally don't put giveaways on my blog, but I thought that these Christmas Card designs were so cute.

Go ahead and enter and win free christmas cards
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What a BOO-tiful Week.

This week was the celebration of Eamon turning one. The week was filled with lots of fun. We first started off on Monday, his birthday, at the Animal Kingdom. We spent time at Dino-land where we rode on dinosaurs, saw the Finding Nemo show, and then we were off to the petting zoo to see some animals.

Then on Friday, we had a little Halloween Birthday Bash and invited children and moms from the ward. It was so fun seeing all of the kids dressed up and making cute halloween treats. Eamon loved having friends over, even if he didn't know what was going on. I am excited that there are so many fun moms and children in the ward to get to know.

The weather was a scorching 90 degrees on Saturday so Brandon and I couldn't pass that up. We packed our little car up with his surf board and headed to the beach to soak up the sun. (Eamon soaked up the sand). It was a fun little outing and so fun to see how happy Eamon was rolling in the sand and in the water.

Wekiva Weekend!

Last week the weather was spectacular and we decided to soak it up and go to the state park close to our house, called Wekiva.

Wekiva has fun hiking and biking trails that you can enjoy, but we decided to go on the awesome yet scary alligator infested river and rent canoes.

I was pretty freaked out as most can imagine, I think I even told Brandon one time that we needed to make a will just in case the gators were out to get me. I kept thinking of Peter Pan and Captain Hook, the tick tock repeating in my head often.

Well to make the story short, alligators we did see. I think I ducked in the canoe for the most part. But I can say, I did see their beady little eyes staring at me, thinking I might be quite a delicious meal.

Not only did we see gators, but turtles, fish and sea otters. It was quite the adventure and just might be up for it again.

Happy Birthday to Eamon!

I can't believe that a year has already gone by since Eamon Jai joined us in this world. He is one of a kind and we love him so.

I still need to download the pictures from today, but wanted to post a picture when he first made his entry into this scary, beautiful, crazy, exciting, fast paced world!

Nap time, oh nap time!

The differences of grandpa and grandma nap time. My mom thought I will just lay down with Eamon and help him get to sleep, little did she know that he would help her get to sleep!

My two favorite foods!

I really love feeding myself. Pears are one of my favorites, except for recently my mom has introduced me to licorice and I sure do love it.

I love getting so messy and dirty that every feeding I have to take a bath.

bytheway friends I sure do miss you, please come and visit

Love, Eamon

Yee-Haw!

I had to post Eamon's Halloween Costume because I have been debating in my mind (very seriously) if this should be Eamons costume. I know it shouldn't be that big of a deal, but it is. So please anyone reading my blog, comment to reassure me that it is cute and I shouldn't fret anymore.

By the way, I am thinking Cowboys and Indians for the family theme. So hopefully that will help picture in your head what our cute family will look like. Giddy-up!

A little bit of us!

I must admit that I find it a little hard to keep up with my blog, due to the fact that I am writing articles and transcribing for work when I sit down at the computer, but I do not want the blogging world missing us too much so here is what we have been up to.

1) Putting together Eamons room. We didn't bring any of his room stuff so we had to start from scratch. Thanks to Craigslist we found his $20 crib, and for $5 more Brandon spray painted parts to make it look brand new.

We also found a beautiful striped chair for $10, such a bargain. And it fits his room perfectly. It was purchased from a hotel that was changing to different chairs so it was an excellent condition.

Last but not least, his bedding from Pottery Barn, that I picked up from the local consignment store. I couldn't be more happy in the money we saved and the way things turned out. We are still working to put it together, but at least we have the essentials of the crib!

Now the hardest part to say the least. Trying to get him to sleep in his crib and stay in it.

2) We were able to go the beach the other day and we loved it. The beaches are so kid friendly here so Eamon loved it. Despite the fact that I am really sunburned we loved it and will be going back in no time.

3) Eamon loves bugs. When we went to the beach Brandon caught a sand crab and handed it to Eamon, Eamon then held it and put it directly in his mouth. (Gross!) I thought that was bad, then when he was crawling around the house he noticed something crawling and went after it. He picked it up and played with it for a while and then placed it back down. Thinking he was done, he then grabbed it up again and shoved it in his mouth and started chewing. He didn't even flinch. His face stayed the same like he was eating a cheerio. I feed him applesauce and he spits it back out, but then he eats bugs, no problem. Brandon wasn't able to get the bug out of his mouth, but we could see the bug guts as they were hanging on his tongue. He just sucked his tongue back in and ate the bug like a piece of candy.

4) Lastly, I have been called into the YW as the Beehive Advisor. I am so excited to work with the youth, I have 12 Beehives and I can't wait for all of the fun that we will have.

More from our drive

Coast to Coast

We have made it! Our long drive cross country ended Thursday night as we pulled into Longwood, Florida.

It is like a tropical forest here. I went walking the other day and two feet infront of me were six deer just staring back at me. Brandon has already been fishing and caught plenty of lizards.

Our drive was great. We saw some beautiful places. New Orleans was probably our favorite. I especially Loved all the Old Mansions that we toured and someday could live in.

Eamon did great. He probably cried 20 minutes of the entire 38 hour drive. And when he got fussy we handed him red licorice and that kept him occupied for at least 2o minutes.

We made our way through eight states starting with California then Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. The pictures of us along the Mississippi River in New Orleans and the Museum district in Houston, TX.

There were plenty of small towns and I think the next time we make the drive Brandon and I are wanting to do a documentary of people that live in small towns. (Small meaning they are the only house around for miles and miles and miles.)

We loved the journey and how beautiful it was across the United States, we definitely don't need to be making a trip like that though for quite a while. Once is enough for now.

Can't wait to find out what new adventure is in front of us.

We are Moving!

Well this is a much needed post and I must say that I have been really bad at keeping up the blog. Not for long though, now that we are heading to Orlando I will make sure to keep it updated weekly.

So ta da, we are driving cross country to Orlando, Florida. We are excited for this new adventure and my parents are even more excited.

Fourth Festivities

We embarked on a camping trip much to my surprise this weekend. I told Brandon we could go, shocking for anyone who knows my love for the great outdoors, dirt and sleeping on the ground. But with positive attitude in hand we set out to mountain lion country to rekindle the love flame of camping. (although there was never a flame to begin with).

I enjoyed most of the trip, except for the non-sleeping part, which seems to be part of the whole camping experience. We went biking which was spectacular for the 10 minutes we rode. Thanks to Eamon crying because he didn't like the helmet. I loved eating my soy hotdogs and delicious campfire smores. Needless to say, I think I will be up for another camping adventure in three years time!

We then went to go see fireworks which didn't go so well. Eamon was pretty scared of them and we ended up leaving early. Although he was scared, he loves making funny faces. Picture above explains it.