Kaitlyn's Christmas Favorites

I just wanted to share a few pictures of some of the favorites that Kaitlyn received for Christmas.

She just loved the Dora ball tent that she got from Santa. She likes it that she can push the colored balls through the side of the tent.



Another favorite is the Dora car that we gave her. She has a obsession to telephones lately and this comes with a cell phone that makes noise. She gets so excited when it does. When she hits the button to make it ring she will run over to us and give it to us. We say Hello and then give it back to her. She will then walk around with it to her ear talking.

Hope everyone had a great Christmas!!

PineRidge Ford Christmas Party

On Saturday Dec 15th we attended a Christmas Party for my work. We always have a lot of fun at my staff parties and this year was just as fun.

The party is always held at my boss' house and is totally family orientated. We have a big Christmas dinner with turkey, potatoes, stuffing, veggies and gravy. Along with that we also have perogies, ham, salad & cabbage rolls. For dessert there was cut up fruit and marshmellows with a chocolate fountain for dipping. We always eat too much.

After we eat there is always a special visit from Santa. The kids really enjoy that. Then once Santa leaves, my boss gives us all gifts (staff and spouses) which are always great. Then we do a gift exchange between all of us. This can get really interesting because we do it one at a time and after someone picks a gift from under the tree the next person can steal that one or pick a new one.

I was really worried that Kaitlyn was going to be really shy and stuck to mine or Todd's side but she really surprised me. She only came to us when she needed a drink or a hug. She was a social butterfly and visited with everyone.

Kaitlyn with Lori Goodwin. She will be looking after her full time starting in January.

Santa arrived.

My colleagues little girl Darlyssa singing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star for Santa. She's almost 5 years old.

Kaitlyn did great with Santa. There was 4 kids there under the age of 2 and she was the only one that didn't cry. He asked her at one point if she wanted to touch his beard and she shook her head no. She got a bathtime toy from him.

Kaitlyn with Ashton...he is almost 2 years old.

Kirt (my boss) starting to give out the gifts. Every year they do something new and this year his wife thought it would be funny if he was given all the gifts unwrapped and had to guess who they belonged to. So we all (staff and spouses) had to pick out 3 things from the Sears catalogue that we would want and then his wife picked one for us. He guessed a few of them right but for the most part he got them wrong. If he got it wrong then we had the chance to trade with whoever received the gift that we wanted. I think at the end we all had the gift that was bought for us. It was quite funny.

Kaitlyn with Addison...she is 15 months old.

She was having fun playing with the bows off the gifts.

Nana goes home :(

We took a trip to Saskatoon today to bring Nana to the airport to get her flight home. It was very sad to see her go but we know that we will see her again in 4 months.

No matter how tired she was, Kaitlyn was not going to sleep.

She sure loved sharing Daddy's chocolate milk.

We also shared a bagel with her and Nana gave her some of her donut.

Kaitlyn is very good with cleaning up and she was waiting here for me so that we could go and put the bag in the garbage.

Getting ready to walk Nana to the security gate. Kaitlyn did OK but me and Nana cried. It is always sad to see someone leave.

This was on the way home after she got a little sleep. So much happier.

Kaitlyn and Her Nana

I have finally gone back to work after having a whole year off to send with my precious little princess. Going back was hard to do but it is the best thing for all of us. My mom came out to watch Kaitlyn for the first 5 weeks that I was back and these are just a few of the pictures that were taken of her and Kaitlyn. I think they really enjoyed their time together. I know I enjoyed her being here.

Putting perfume on.

Cuddling before bed.

Doritos....YUMMM!!

One night Tod was having a few Doritos and Kaitlyn wanted to try them. At first she wasn't too sure about them but when she finally tasted the chip she was hooked. She even wanted to get them out by herself too. It was so funny to watch her with them because if we put them away she would walk around the whole room looking for them and when she found them she would take the bag back to Daddy to give her one.