Happy Thanksgiving!

I hope everyone has a wonderful day today with friends and family.

We are headed up to Reno, to spend a few days with family and also to celebrate my birthday a little early.

I'm excited to spend the time with them, to be surrounded by the people I love and to share this with Roweyn. I get so excited about sharing the holidays with her and she's still a little young to really understand it but I can tell she's understanding it more this year and to see how excited she gets about it just melts my heart!

Roweyn's Ramblings Wk. 42

Did everyone have a great Thanksgiving? We sure did! If you missed out on the photos and what we did, you can check them all out right here. :)


The day after Thanksgiving I came down with yet another cold, only bummer was that this one turned into a sinus infection. :( But it was straight back to work on Monday while trying to battle it out. Roweyn also turned 23 months over the weekend! Can't believe in a month she will be TWO!

Tuesday the 29th was a special day though; I turned 23! Since I was not feeling good at all, we spent the day relaxing and just enjoying the nice weather. And of course giving kisses! If you missed my 23rd birthday post be sure to check it out. The next day Roweyn let me put a pig tail in for a bit and then made it hard to get any photos! hehe

We spent some more time outside in the nice weather playing in the leaves! Then it was off to babysit baby Henry. Roweyn loves helping me watch him. On Dec. 1st we surprised my sister Tayelor with an early Christmas present. Tickets to the Jingle Ball concert to go see a few different bands along with her favorite singer Selena Gomez. We made a sister date out of it and had a great time! Friday it was back to preschool for Roweyn. I am not too sure what she is doing here! haha

Hope it was a good week for everyone! Can you believe it's December now?!

Thanksgiving 2011!

For the first time in 5 years, we headed up North for Thanksgiving with all our relatives. We don't make it up there often for Holidays because it can be quite stressful having to visit two sides of the family especially in the same day. And driving 6+ hours in the car during the Holidays is not very fun either!


We had a wonderful time though and I'm really glad we were able to share this great family experience with Roweyn.

Normally it can be pretty rainy and foggy there, but Thanksgiving Day was beautiful, so we made the most of it and headed over to the zoo to see all the animals!

 

After the zoo, we headed back to the house for a little rest. Then we were  up and getting ready for two different family dinners that were taking place at the same time. So we headed over to the first house early so we could visit with our 20+ family for a bit, we sat down to an amazing dinner and as soon as we were done eating, we were up and off to the next house. This next dinner was much quieter but still just as good. It was a bit of a hectic night but the important thing was we were able to see all our family, even if it was for a short while.

All in all, we had a great Thanksgiving with family and yummy food. I'm looking forward to next years. I think Roweyn will understand more what is going on and hopefully will be able to really enjoy it!

Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving with family and good food too!

Roweyn's Ramblings Wk. 41

Here we are in the middle of November! Already? Can't believe how quickly the holidays are approaching! Too fast in my opinion.

Nov. 20th Rowe playing "Mommy" with her baby and stroller that is almost as big as her. Napping. Wearing her glasses so she can draw. More awesome bubbles in the tub!

Catching the bubbles! And after bath time a little piano time with Papa. Such a sweet moment of the two of them. Rowe really loves her Papa. 
Nov. 21st - Me ready for work to be over. Home from work and snuggling my sweet girl at bed time.

Nov. 22nd - Getting a little energy out before our 6+ hour drive to Eureka for Thanksgiving. Eating breakfast at Great Grandma Nona's house. Naptime! Coloring over at our Aunt's house.

Mean Muggin it! 
Nov. 24th - Wearing her clean diaper on her head Thanksgiving morning. Checking out the Flamingos and the Red Pandas at the Zoo on Thanksgiving.

Happy Thanksgiving from the Red Pandas, Rowe and me! Riding a tractor and a horse. Spider Roweyn!

Checking out some more animals at the zoo on Thanksgiving.
Nov. 25th. Just a girl and her dog hangin out.

Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving! Ours was crazy to say the least. Just very busy seeing all of our family and having Two Thanksgiving Dinners on the same night and right after Thanksgiving, I came down with another cold, so I was quite worn out afterwards.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Just wanted to wish everyone a very Happy Thanksgiving! We are out of town visiting all our family for the holiday which I don't think we have done in about 6 years, so it was much needed! I'm excited for Roweyn to be able to experience our giant family during the holiday and really hope she has fun! I'm so thankful to have such a big, loving family and even though we're in the same state, about 6 hours away, we don't get to see them hardly enough, so I'm very thankful for the times we do get together!


Last year we went over to our family friends house and had a wonderful time there. Here we are before heading over.

Love this photo of her just cracking up!

I hope you all are able to enjoy this time with family and friends!

Give Thanks

Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving! We had two Thanksgivings, one at our friends house on Thursday and another one at my Mom's Uncles Ranch on Friday. This was Roweyn's First Thanksgiving! It wasn't like our usual Thanksgiving, this year neither of my brothers were here but Kadin hasn't had a Thanksgiving with us for a while. I can't remember the last time I had a Thanksgiving without Trevor though, so I was bummed that Roweyn didn't have her Uncles here to celebrate with.


We usually spend the day in the kitchen cooking, okay well my parents and Trevor do and I help when needed. Ha! I'm not much of a cook, but with direction, I can help out. :) This year we only spent a little bit of time cooking whatever we took over to our friends house, so for me it wasn't that exciting of a day. But since Roweyn won't remember it anyway, I don't really mind.


With how crazy of a year it's been I'm so thankful for my family, for everything they've done for me. They supported me through my pregnancy, got me through school and stateboard and through the first year of Roweyn's life. I couldn't have done it with out their help, it would have been impossible. And for that, I am eternally thankful. I'm thankful for getting through school and stateboard and having a career that I'm always learning from. I'm thankful for my beautiful, amazing baby girl, for everything about her. And for the new friends I've met from becoming a mommy and all the new opportunities I have. 


Here are some photos from the past couple days. :)