Claire's Baby Blessing

We flew into Utah for Christmas break on Sunday, December, 22, 2013 in the afternoon and had Claire's baby blessing that same night.  We had to wake up at about 4:30am that day, so needless to say we were tired and I didn't feel very put together.  I also didn't think about this until I was getting Claire in her dress, but it was size 0-3 months, and she was a 2.5 month old in size 6 month clothi. So the dress was a little short, but oh well.  The blessing Ryan gave her was beautiful with many promises for the future.  She was happy during it and it was so fun to see all of our family right away.  After the blessing, we had dinner and dessert together and sat around visiting for a little while.  It all turned out just great!

 The blessing circle: Craig, JR (Ryan's cousin), Mark, Kevin, Ryan, my dad, & Jonathan.

 Claire's grandparents and family.

 The Smith girls.

Blue M&M

Working for Mars gets us quite a bit of free company gear around here.  One random thing that Ryan brought home one day was a blue M&M golf club cover.  Lucy found it and immediately became attached to it.  She thought it was a puppet for her arm to go in, which totally works too.  Blue came everywhere with us for a few days and still makes a cameo appearance here and there.

 He gets lots of kisses.

 And two mysterious selfies that appeared on my phone after the whole photo session with Blue. 

Typical Lucy

I usually (keyword: usually) love when Lucy disappears for a few minutes because she comes back doing something like wearing someone else's shoes or something crazy.  This time, she felt like the tree was a little too bright and came out sporting my sunglasses and diaper bag.  So stylish.

 Oh just putting on every headband in the house the wrong way.  She didn't know I was watching.

 Lucy got a fun playdough kit from her friend Mason for her birthday and she loves it.  Kept her busy a lot the first few days especially.  

Santa round #2

So seeing Santa didn't go super well the first time for Lucy, so a few days later Ryan read a book to Lucy about Santa which made them decide to write/draw Santa a letter so he would know what Lucy wanted for Christmas.  Lucy got really into it and had a good time.  A few days later when Marci asked if we wanted to go see Santa with them at the mall, we decided to go and have Lucy deliver the letter in person.  It really took a lot of courage but she was brave and went and handed her letter to Santa and you could tell she was proud of herself afterwards.  I'm so glad we went back because it was just as much fun for me to see her do this.

The letter didn't last long in the actual envelope.  Who needs envelopes anyway?

 She gave me one good, quick smile that didn't last long enough to catch on camera and then this look the rest of the time.  Still a little unsure.

Christmas playdate

One of my awesome neighbors, Bobbie, hosted a little Christmas playdate for some neighbor kids (Lucy, Mason, Capri, & Garrett).  We got together, had lunch, let the kids play while the adults chatted, and made little Christmas trees out of ice cream cones.  Needless to say, most of the frosting and sprinkles made it to Lucy's mouth before the cone, but what else would I expect from her. :)

Gingerbread men

Lucy and I were really needing something to keep us busy during the afternoons so I bought this little gingerbread man kit.  Lucy had so much fun doing it, which made it really fun for me too!  Anything with candy can make this girl happy.  Like mother, like daughter.

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