Christmas 2002

Tuesday - December 24, 2002

We had a really nice relaxing and enjoyable night.  We opened our Christmas pajamas.  I made matching pajamas for each of us.  We took a short video of us on Christmas eve, we took a family picture in front of the tree, I gave Alissa a bath, we put her to bed, then relaxed for a little bit before going to bed ourselves.  Here is our Christmas Eve video.

 Roger was a stinker and couldn't wait until tomorrow morning to open his gift from me and Alissa, so he opened it tonight.  I stayed up late many many nights working on this quilt for Roger.  I worked on it while he was at work.  He almost found it once, before Christmas.  I had it hidden in Alissa's closet because he never looks in there, but for some reason he looked in there.  He didn't even notice it.  I had it covered up with something else, but I was quite relieved that he didn't find it.  He loved it!

I took video of Christmas day, but for some reason I can't find it or part of it got erased.  I can't quit figure out what went wrong.  

 We had a fun morning at home, then headed to Salt Lake in the evening to go to the Moser Family Christmas party.  They always have their party on Christmas day.  It was fun to see everybody.

Bone Family Christmas Party - December 21, 2002

Saturday - December 21, 2002

We went to the Bone Family Christmas party today.  Today is also Kristin's birthday, so we got to celebrate that too.  Santa Claus came and the kids got to have their picture taken with him.  I didn't have my camera or my camcorder, so I didn't get any pictures, but Kari did.  She sent me these pictures.  There is Alissa with Santa and a picture with Me and Kristy and our cute little girls, Alissa and Kaylie.

Posing in Front of The Tree - December 16, 2002

Monday - December 16, 2002

Me and my 'lissa posing in front of the Christmas Tree.

 

The Cutest Little Girl Ever! - December 11, 2002

Wednesday - December 11, 2002

I keep trying to get Alissa to say "mama" or laugh for the camera.  She's never said "mama" before, but it's fun to try.  I just think Alissa is way too cute.  I can't get enough of her.  We got her to do a little tiny laugh for the camera, so that was exciting.  Before we turned on the camera she was laughing.  Every time we try to record it, she calms down and we can't get her to laugh.  Here is the video from today.

Alissa's First Laugh - December 10, 2002

Tuesday - December 10, 2002

Alissa laughed for the first time today!  We were so excited.  Her daddy was playing with her and it made her laugh.  I pulled out the camera, hoping that I could get her to laugh again, but... no luck.  It didn't happen.

Alissa is 3 months old.  She loves to go out and about and see things.  She likes it when I hold her facing outward so she can see everything.  It makes her coo, that's how I know she likes it.  

Alissa doesn't like binkies.  I keep trying to get her to take one, but she refuses.  She likes to suck on things, especially her hand.  She doesn't suck her thumb.  She just sucks on her whole hand.  Her thumb is always tucked into her fist.

She loves to kick her feet and splash when she takes a bath.  She doesn't like to get out of the bath.  That makes her cry.  I'm guessing it is because it is cold when you first get out of the warm water.  Here is the video I took today.

Alissa's First Vacation - December 5 - 6, 2002

Thursday - December 5th

We went to the Jelly Belly Factory.  They have a tour so you can see how they make Jelly Bellies.  Since it's Christmas time, Santa Claus was there.  So Alissa got to sit on Santa's lap for the first time.  My favorite thing about the Jelly Belly Factory is the belly flops.  You can buy big bags of Jelly Bellies for a good price, but they are called Belly Flops because they are the Jelly Bellies that got messed up while being made.  They are either oddly shaped or a couple of Jelly Bellies stuck together. I love Jelly Bellies!

Friday - December 6th

I didn't take very many pictures or video of our trip.  I remembered right before it was time to leave.  As we were packing up our stuff, I had Roger pull out the camcorder and take some video so we could remember our fun little vacation.  We had a lot of fun.  My favorite part of the vacation was the time we spent playing games with Kelly.  She had a large collection of fun games to play.  There were sooo many!  A lot of games that I had never heard of.  The one that made me laugh the most was a game called Fluxx.  I loved it so much, we went and bought it so we could play it at home.  Roger doesn't normally like to play those kind of games, but he said that he had a lot of fun.

We woke up, packed our things and headed home today.  These two pictures were taken right before we left.  Kelly got a puppy.  She named him Archie.  Archie and Alissa didn't really get a long.  Every time I laid Alissa down in her play pen, Archie would run at her and park, which would of course make her cry and make Archie bark even more.  Archie is a cute fun puppy.  We had a lot of fun on our visit.  We took this video before we left.

Alissa's Baby Blessing - December 1, 2002

Sunday - December 1, 2002

We blessed our little 'lissa today!  Aunt Kristy let her wear the same dress that cousin Kaylie was blessed in.  She looked so cute!  Alissa cried through the whole blessing.  I knew she would because I thought that she wouldn't like all of the people crowding around her.
After the blessing we invited everybody to come to our little home for food and to visit.  Our home isn't very big, but it is bigger than the last place we lived.  It is nice to be able to invite people over.
Here is a video of the get together after the blessing.

We went to Walmart to have family pictures taken.  I just can't remember what day we went and has this done, so I am going to share this picture here.  I know it was sometime near this date that we had the picture taken.