7 Months

Claire turned 7 months on 12/12/12

She started cutting her 1st tooth and pulled herself up on her own in the laundry basket... All on this day! Crazy.

December

I have been away from the blogging world for far too long. Life just seems to get busier and busier each month. So I'm going to do a picture dump of December and call it good. December consisted of

• Photo shoot of Claire done by my good friend Dano.
• Our 1st trip to Salina. We will be moving there in May for Aaron's internship so we thought we would go check it out and see what places might be available to rent. It's a SMALL SMALL town!
• Our 1st time visiting Tina, Colby, and Kinley in Price. Claire played in the snow for the 1st time on this trip and built her 1st snowman.
• CHRISTMAS!! I had to work 5 nights in a row including Christmas Eve and Christmas night but we did our best to celebrate. 
• Aaron got his tonsils out. WORST surgery ever! He couldn't eat for like a whole week. Poor guy. I have never seen him so miserable. I felt like I was taking care of 2 babies haha. Because I would have to get up in the night for him to eat something and take his pills and then get up with Claire too. 
• Elli's baby shower in Logandale. We did a winter/snowflake theme. We had a big brunch and hot chocolate bar. 

Logandale Thanksgiving

 We went home for Thanksgiving and had such a great time. We were super busy though. Thanksgiving day started off eating at the Johnson's, then pie at the Waite's, then eating again at the Mulcock's and then visiting and I think pie again at the Dalley's. CRAZY! That's what happens I guess when half the town is your in-laws. It was great to be able to see everyone though, we really enjoyed it. The rest of the weekend we played, cut down our Christmas tree, helped my family move out of their house, and went to the movies. It was a go go go kind of weekend. Wished we could have stayed longer.

 We found the perfect little tree!!! Brought it from the top of NV mountains back to Salt Lake.

 

 

Poor girl face planted in the dirt....

Nielsen, Bergesen and Dalley Thanksgiving / Locks of Love

We started a little tradition with some of our best friends here in Salt Lake. About a week before Thanksgiving we get together and have a Pre-Thanksgiving. The boys deep fry the Turkey outside in the freezing cold while us girls visit inside and munch on cranberry cream cheese and crackers till the Turkey finishes. Have you ever had deep fried turkey?... Seriously SOOOO good! The Nielsen's just moved to Texas and we sure do miss them! Hopefully we can keep up the tradition even though they are so far away. Maybe next year we will do it there ;-)

 Claire and her Boyfriend James. They are only a few weeks apart.



I got my hair chopped this same day for Locks of Love. I had been wanting to cut my hair for a while and finally got the guts to do it. They cut 13.5 inches off.

6 Months

Taking these pictures is starting to become a very difficult task. Claire is such a busy body!!! She can not sit still for 2 seconds. It is such a fun stage though, she learns something new everyday. I feel bad that I can't remember the milestones she made because it has been so long since I have blogged. At her 6 month checkup she was 15.06 lbs (25%) and 26.25 inches (75%)