Lights

Last week we went to the cul-de-sac in the Rancho Del Mar subdivision with all the lights. Keaton loved it. Lots of wow's and look!


Keaton wore these little gloves which he liked, but it was funny because his hands were always held out like this.

Ho Ho...Humbug

Keaton with Santa at our ward party....not a happy camper. He recognizes Santa and gets excited but doesn't want to be anywhere near him...unless Santa has candy...then he gets tough enough to get the candy, but he isn't real happy about it.

IRON GIRL

So lately I've been walking at 5 AM with some girls from my ward. Some of them who are very ambitious would like to do a 1/2 marathon soon. So to start us off we registered for a 5K. It was the AFLAC Iron Girl. It was fun to get up early in the morning on a Saturday and exercise with a bunch of other people...but I didn't love it. I mean I figure we already walk 2.5 miles each morning so walking 3.2 was not that big of a deal. Plus it was way crowded so if we tried to jog it was like morning rush hour stop and go traffic. Anyway, here's some pics of our day. We did get a nice goodie bag and a continental breakfast...and of course we all got a silver medal! Whoo Hoo.


Kelly, Amy, Deanna, Erin, Beth


The 5 AM Walkers!
When they called me the night before they said there are blue shirt and purple shirts one has 3/4 legnth sleeves and the other is long sleeved. I said it shouldn't be too cold I'll take the 3/4 sleeves...well they aren't really 3/4 and they failed to tell me I would be the only one in another color....but that's ok, we all coordinated anyway.



Dona, Kelly, Deanna, Amy, Erin, Beth, Betsy & girls

Cousins

Melissa was in town for Thanksgiving. We didn't get any pictures of Keaton and Braden together because both of our cameras are dying on us, but she did have these pictures from when she visited in early October. I stole them from her blog to show the two cousing together. This was a fun visit. I taught Braden how to sit up (just kidding but they had told me he couldn't stay up for very long and the first time I sat him up he stayed for about 10 minutes!) Braden also started scooting around by pushing with his toes. He's just so cute and they are very cute together as well.


Going for a big ride.


Keaton wishes Braden could play a little more with him.

SHOPPING NIGHTMARE

Ok well it wasn't really a nightmare but I don't know why people do it. I guess if there was a super great thing that you could save a ton on it would be worth it but yesterday was definately not worth it.

I went to KB toys about 12:30 already lines like crazy. It was so packed it was hard to walk down the aisle and even see what was there. The only reason I went was to use a 40% off coupon, that was for a regular price item and only good from midnight to 5 am.

When I got out of there about 2:30 I just decided to hang around the mall, some other stores were open so I browsed then headed to JC Penney. However once again I was late...at 4:15 I couldn't find a parking spot...but finally I parked. I went there to get a pair of shoes, they were 24 dollars instead of 60...but I wonder if they'll be on sale again like that some other time before Christmas. I bought a few other things then checked out...and got to my 3rd store late too.

I pulled up to Walmart at 5:30...they had a man in the parking lot directing traffic it was so bad. All I really wanted to buy was this little $10 set of blocks. I walked into the store and almost turned around a walked out but made my way to the back. Found my blocks and got in line...after 15 minutes of not moving and realized I was at least 50 people back and other lines were even longer, I put those blocks down and left.

I was thinking the whole time...what about the recession...are people spending every sent they have, going into massive debt or are the just grabbing everything they can on sale and maybe having to return later once they evaluate their situations more.

Last year I went to Kohls at about 9:00 and had to stand in line for over 2 hours so that's why I tried the early thing this year. But I still stood in two lines for more than 45 minutes.

I would say...not worth it for me. Keaton didn't need any particular toy so much I couldn't wait til today or next week. I wasn't planning on purchasing any major electronic or appliance for the great deal so not worth my lack of sleep.

One thing I will say..I wanted this swingset from toyrus...they were out by 10....and mom called all the store in the valley, they all ran out yesterday and when she called again this morning, they didn't have any on their overnight shipments either. I guess I should have been at toysrus at 5, instead of walmart

Happy Birthday

These are just a few pictures of Keaton at a recent birthday party. Camryn is the daughter of my friend Yvette who I worked with last year. It was her 2nd birthday.


Always being silly.


Such a big boy!

Tonsils.. who needs 'em!

So it's been a little while cuz we've been a little sick. Last week, well a week and a half ago, Keaton had a little fever in the evening..like 99.9. He acted lethargic so we headed to bed right at 8:00. Well about 8:30 he starts gagging and throws up all over his bed. I carry him into the bathroom while he continues to spew into the bath tub. We get cleaned up and then about 9:00 I guess he had just a little more. By 10 he had passed out on the couch and slept through the night. No fever in the morning. Took him to daycare, warned her that the first sign of fever or vomitting definately call....fine all day. About 8 at night, slight fever again. Saturday morning, Sunday and Monday..same thing fine all day, playing, eating, sleeping, happy...by 5 or 6 pm, feeling lethargic not eating slight fever, never over 100.1. Well Sunday I started feeling it too! Monday I decided to try to stick it out at work even though my throat was killing me and I didn't feel very good. I had the day off last Tuesday for Veteran's Day so I thought I'd make it through. By 10:00 I had a fever 102.2 in my nurses office and I was dizzy etc. Got a sub in by 11:30 and went to my doc. I had strep and my fever in his office was 102.6. I guess I was really. This is my 2nd round of Strep this school year and my 3rd this calendar year but the doc says it's not a good surgery at this age....now that I'm so old.

Anyway, Tuesday Keaton was fine, I was off, but sent him to daycare because of my strep...picked him up around 12:30. I started to notice a little fever around 3:30 so I called the doctor she got me in at 4:15 and sure enough Keaton had a fever of 100.0 and strep too. Poor little guy, probably really sick all weekend, but it's so hard to know.

So that's our story, we both finished up the meds and we're good to go :) Keaton gets a flu shot on Thursday now that he's better, I've already had mine so hopefully we'll make it through the winter.