A rough day...

See the huge blue-ish green bruise on her left eyebr0w? We went to our ward christmas party Saturday morning and while Camryn was out in the hall playing with some other kids, one little girl turned around and ran off, slamming her right into the corner of a doorway. She hit her eyebrow so hard...that was definitely the hardest I've ever heard her scream :( She recovered fairly quickly then went to play in the nursery with some other little kids. Someone opened up the cupboard right into her face again.

Then we were ready to leave so I put her in her carseat, gave her my car keys (which I USED to do all the time!) and shut her door. I went around to open my door...and she'd locked it with her teeth!! I ran over to Matt, who had driven separately to tell him Camryn just locked herself in the car. He calmly asked if I wanted him to drive home and get the spare set of keys. I told him he couldn't because the other set of keys was also in the car, in the center console. Camryn was happy for a few minutes playing with her keys, and we were trying to get her to push the unlock button but it's the smaller one and she wouldn't. She finally got bored with the keys and chucked them on the ground, so we decided we better call a locksmith. Thanks to Danny we called the police because he informed us if there's a child in the car they'll come for free! So a cute blonde police lady (who had hot pink handcuff's in her back pocket!) came and opened the car for us, at which point Camryn was screaming! She was fine but ready to go home and have a bottle and go to sleep. It was a rough day....

thanksgiving

We had a busy, fun and eventful Thanksgiving this year! Our plan was to fly out to California to spend the holiday with all of Matt's family but Camryn woke up with a 103.5 fever Thursday morning so we decided not to get on the plane if she was getting sick. Parker was driving down to Cali Thursday afternoon, so after eating Thanksgiving dinner (Matt with his family, Camryn and I with mine) we headed out!

We got there at 3 am, but thanks to Parker who drove the whole way....I got to sleep a little on the way! Friday all the girls headed to the American Girl doll store. WOW! That place was amazing...a little girls dream! Each doll had it's own little room with her story and clothes and accessories...which are ridiculously priced but you get sucked in while you're there! We had lunch at the cafe there, where the little girls got to bring their dolls and they give you high chairs so they get to sit right next to you :) They only serve pink lemonade and hot chocolate to drink, ( so fitting) and we had a delicious lunch. It was so fun to see my cute nieces light up at all their favorite dolls and pick out their one outfit to take home!

Saturday we drove to the beach so the boys could surf, but the waves weren't great so we just ended up having a fun picnic on the beach and letting all the kids run around in the sand!

Sunday we drove down to see Amber and Bryan's cute house! Then we hit up Disneyland on Monday! It was so fun to take Camryn even though she doesn't really get the whole magic of it all. But she liked going on the rides and seeing all the people and lights and trying to escape from mom and dad :) We had to leave early to catch our flight home so we didn't get to be there as long as we would have liked, but it was so nice to spend time with our family and be in the nice 80 degree weather! Why don't we live in Califnornia?

I'm so grateful for my wonderful little family, for my sweet husband who is my rock and takes such good care of us, for Camryn who brings so much joy and love into our lives and teaches us how to be more selfless. I feel so blessed for everything I have and love this time of year that we get to show our gratitude for all we have!