Dreyton Leland Stanford

I went into the hospital on December 27th for a repeat c-section and had him at 1:29pm, he was 8 lbs 13 ounches and 20 1/2 inches long. I got home earlier today and recovering alot quicker then the first time.

Shorty's Christmas Concert

My granny had a Christmas concert at her complex that we went too, granny planned the program and played the piano for it all.

Update of the Family

Lee has been stressing out this whole week getting up at 4am everyday to study as he had two big accounting finals right after one another yesterday, thankfully they are all done and he was able to feel good with how he did. I have been having to get up early as well this week with Zoë so we both went to bed at 9:30pm last night. I have no pictures right now as I am packing to move on Thursday and I would not allow anyone to see the disaster. We got the back window fixed on our van, we were able to get it under warranty as it may have been a defect in the window, which was a great relief to us. Tonight Lee and I made sugar cookies and chocolate chip cookies after Zoë went to bed,

My hectic life!

Do people have nothing better to do with there time then to give others headaches? We are also getting ready to move into a low income townhouse that just came up on the 13th of December right after Lee's last final exam, not to mention having a baby in less then 25 days! Luckily I have gotten all my Christmas presents bought and wrapped already.

Zoë dressed up for the Ward Christmas Party

Daddy and Zoë

Lee enjoys going up when they ask for people to join the choir for that song.

Zoë

One nice thing about it being cold out.

It finally got cold enough in my apartment to do a fire (well my idea of a fire is putting a firelog into the fireplace and it lasts for hours). Zoë was so excited to have a fire too, she kept saying fire over and over again around the house and would blow on it like she does her dinner because I said it was hot.
Zoë's at a very fun age right now, learning lots of words and able to communicate alot more now. I have been trying to get her to say hi on the camera but it has been impossible so far, she has such a high pitched voice when she says it, its so cute. I will keep trying.

BrightNights

I got to say I am very impressed with myself today, I walked for an hour at this brightnights christmas scenery! When I was 8 mos. pregnant with Zoë my legs would become swollen and pretty much paralyzed after about 10 feet.

Random pictures of this week

Zoë is in such a cute stage right now, she points at everything and says sah sah (which I think means what is this), she loves hearing about what everything is. She's going to be such a good big sister as she always kisses and hugs her doll, pushes it around in the stroller and grocery cart and gives her baby her bottle to drink from. She has a very nurturing side, Lee and Zoë got there flu shots the other day and she made sure to give daddy a kiss and hug after he was done to make him feel better without him asking for it.

Zoë always says amen (her version of amen is meh)after her prayer doll.

Zoë all bundled up for the Edmonton winter

Zoë was so happy to get her nutella sandwich from daddy for breakfast

Whenever I am trying to take a picture of Zoë she has to come up as close as she can to the camera and smile because she loves to look at herself after the picture has been taken.

Zoë giving kisses

Zoë loves to give hugs and kisses, even to all her toys, as well as the camera.


Some benefits of being a poor broke student is you get free access to alot of places, here's a play area that I like to wear Zoë out at.

Chocolate day

Uncle Ry playing with his nieces

A surprise

My mother and I were chillin' at home for the evening as all the boys went to a movie, so I decided to go relax for a bit in the hot tub alone. As I was outside I heard some leaves crunching and I automatically pushed aside stalker thoughts and other such things and decided it was the wind making them crunch. As I was looking around I noticed in my dads crab apple tree a large black spot. When I got closer I noticed it was a large porcupine, and then noticed a second one starting to go in the tree as well. I always thought porcupines were little small things fitting in your palm, but these are between the height of my knees to my waist. Here are some pictures my brother Ryan took of them, there's actually 3 of them that come in the evenings.

Trick or Treating with my little monkey

Zoë sure caught on quick on the whole trick or treating. She would stand at the door till they gave her twice as many candy as everybody else and then go to the next. She would not let anyone try to take her pumpkin that held the candy in away from her. She went out for 2 1/2 hours!


Zoë's cousins Tighe and Dominique, also known as Harry Potter and Tigger with my monkey.



1/5th of Zoë's candy

cousin Jayden showing off her candy she got as well.

Getting kissed by Benny

Corn Maze and other activities

We didn't go through the actual corn maze as it takes average 1-2 hours to complete but there were numerous other activities to do.


Zoë was not scared at all going through the haunted house, such a brave girl!


Zoë loved running through the minimaze


Zoë and I on the wagon ride

Zoë loved going through the petting zoo and petting the goats and sheep.

I am going to need to buy a raincoat

Zoë loves her baths and enjoys getting me all wet.

Spook Alley

We went to the spook alley, Zoë got a yellow butterfly airbrushed on her cheek.

Fall pictures