kambria's first snow

I have posted the story behind all the pictures a few posts down, so be sure to read them all.

Kambria and mom


The whole fam!!
Kambria and Dad

gingerbread houses

The before pictures....

And the after pictures...

The red one is mine the brick one is Bryan's.

the snow

So the pics are here

Well, today Bryan went back to work and his family are doing their own things so I figured I would come and post the pictures I have been promising for a while now...No one hurt my feeling by saying I need to post. I am glad people remind me! ;o)

So the gingerbread houses were a LOT more work than I EVER anticipated. It took us 3 days to complete them and when it came down to it, we became very bored of decorating after about an hour. So this is the finfished product. I would recommend just buying a kit for 10 dollars! Muh easier and just as fun.

We have had a major blizzard storm the last week. These pictures are from the first storm that gave us about 3 feet of snow. Bryan's work was cancelled along with the rest of the city shutting down too! A lot of people were stuck at the airport for christmas. Glad I was not flying anywhere! It was fun to be snowed in, but now there is another storm that has hit. It has given us about another 6 inches, but it is supposed to continue to snow through Sunday. Denver has shut down since they got about another foot to foot and a half last night. My mother is tired of being snowed in. But at least it is good for family ties and fun huh? I sometimes just wish I was at my families house instead of Bryan's. I just get lonesome for them. But that will come in about a month!!!! YEAH!!! I think my mother is REALLY excited to have us move in with them and have her granddaughter closer. She gets lonesome for adult girl conversations sometimes...and I love getting to oblige her and have them with her!

The next pictures are of Kambria's first sledding experience. Bryan's family went up to beaver ridge meadows and we all went sledding. Kambria stayed indoors most of the time with Bryan's sister Lisa since she is 6 months pregnant and did not want to go sledding. So that was nice to have some time to go with Bryan. Then she came outside for a while and took some pictures! It was a good old time!!!

So that has been what I have done the last couple of days...
And now I am looking forward to setting some new goal for myself and Bryan for the new year. I usually sit down and write myself a letter and seal it up until the next year. I forgot to do that last year and now I am regretting it. So that is what we're going to do for FHE come Monday night. That is my goal anyway. We will have to see if it happens.

thanks for all your support and being patient with me while I have been a slacker on posting. Love you all. Until next time.

Short but sweet!

So I have not posted anything in a while and I have a lot to catch up on...Some people have told me that Christmas has come and gone and I have not posted anything...Well, family from Bryan's side is still in town until Monday the 1st and so things have been quite hectic trying to keep them entertained....So I will post this...Gingerbread houses were fun to do, but really TOO much work for me...I would rather buy the kit than make them from scratch. And we got about 3 feet of snow a week ago and now tonight we are supposed to get another foot before we have even really recovered from the first storm. And Kambria had her first snow experience. I will be explaining more about them come next Tuesday when the schedules go back to normal. And pictures should come along with them too. I am sorry for all my faithful readers who have been waiting for something from me. Hopefully this will last for a while!
Until next time...

Christmas here we come!

So the past 4 days have been nothing but getting ready for x-mas. Monday, Bryan and I decided we wanted to make gingerbread houses for family home evening. Little did we realize that it is truly a 3 day activity; one day to make the gingerbread and bake it, then let it sit overnight to harden, day 2 to put it together and sit overnight to harden again, and day 3 to decorate. So the first gingerbread house we made was not very good. So we tried again. Tonight is the night that we get to decorate the houses...So tomorrow you should see a picture of them all completed...Bryan even says he wants to post them so Brady can be jealous!...Sorry Brady...Bryan just gets jealous of all the wonderful cooking you do! We think it is great!

And last night we went Christmas shopping for Lisa and Eric since they are coming by plane and have limited room for presents...It was fun. I have wrapped all my gifts and they are under Bryan and I's fake tree...Since Don and MaryEllen could not find a real one they liked, for a price they like they used our fake one this year. I am glad that we could help in the festivities. MaryEllen commented that she thought it would be fun to have gifts under the tree before Christmas eve, like she always has. I guess that is when she gets around to wrapping the presents. It should be fun to watch the cats and hopefully not have them tear the presents open before Christmas. Bryan and I are ready for Christmas this year...Since it is Kambria's first Christmas. She does not really understand what is going on, but it is fun for us to watch her experience it.
Well until the gingerbread houses are complete....

crazy times

I have not written in a while, and for all my faithful readers I am sorry. I do not have a lot to say other than holiday times are BUSY! And I am not even THAT busy. I just think it is all in my brain. I do not know if any one else feels this way, but I think that I feel busy because there is a lot of hussle and bussle about. I am trying to remember the the TRUE meaning of christmas and keeping my thoughts in check. I am more in the mood of gift giving than gift reciving, but it still does not seem like Christ is quite in the center of it all...I am working on it!

Well like I said not much happening. Just everyday doing the same old same old...eat sleep and take care of Kambria...that takes all my time.

Until next time

more photos...

Here are some more photos...enjoy

Kambria's 3 month photos

Bryan had the day off yesterday from work since he is working Saturday, so we took Kambria to get her 3 month photos. My brother and sister-in-law did pictures every 3 months for my nephew Hayden and when he turned 1 year old it was really cute to see his 3, 6, 9 and 12 month photos together. So we decided to get on the ball and do it too...But we were not expecting everything that they did. It was a fun experience and from it all we ended up getting a CD that contained ALL 83 photos that they took. The guy said that they normally do not take that many pictures, but he said he goes crazy with babies, since he has a 2 month old son too. So I am sure next time we do pictures, it wont be quite the same, but it was fun for first timers like us! So here are some of the cute pictures so everyone can see...
Until next time...

A good holiday

So I wont say much due to limited time, but Thanksgiving was fun. My family was all together again. We spent 5 days with my family just hanging out, going to our traditional thanksgiving day movie, playing games and setting Brady up on a date with a friend of mine named Esther. It was fun. A very thankful time and I reflected a lot about how much a truly do have. Here is the family photo we took before Colins goes on his mission on January 31, 2007. He is going to Mendoza Argentina!!!! I am only worried about when he gets home and Brady and him talk in Spanish and the rest of us wont be able to understand them...But until next time, enjoy your day!

Thankful

So this time of year really makes one think about all the things one should be thankful for. First thing that comes to mind is my family...Immediate and extended. My little girl makes me so thankful for prayers being answered. I think of all the worries I originally had when I was pregnant and all the family and friends that said prayers in my behalf. I know that they were answered ten fold, because Kambria is healthy, well and growing like a weed. Our friends baby Hannah who is only 3 weeks younger than Kambria is not near as alert or as physically strong. Kambria loves to be on her tummy and holds her head up. She will be crawling soon by the way she is acting on her tummy. She also loves to stand. It is ust amazing how strong she really is. This I am thankful for.

I am also thankful for a husband who loves me beyond measure...Even if I wake up on the grumpy side of the bed and am not a happy camper. He still loves me!! I am grateful for my brothers and sister and the friendship we have with each other. I just wish that I could spend more time with them all. I guess that makes the time I do spend with them that more worth it. I am grateful for a set of parents who love us all and teaches us so much with their actions and words. They have remained faithful to each other and have taught me so many things with their words of love and advice. If I could only begin to have their knowledge I would be set. But I am learning ... Slowly learning.

These are just a few things that I am thankful/grateful for. Did I even mention the gospel of Jesus Christ?...That makes everything just make sense and have purpose. Like my brother Brady said, "there is a lot to think about, but nothingto worry about." I love it!!!

Well until next time, remember that Eliza Fairbanks has a thankful heart this day!

Photo opportunity

Cute!


Kambria has been so cute lately, not that she isn't cute all the time, but tonight she was sitting up all by herself. Some of the credit has to go to the fact that she was calm and not too anxious about moving around. So MaryEllen set up a little "studio" on her living room chair and we took pictures of Kambria sitting up with the help of the crevice of the chair too, but Kambria tried to keep sitting up all by her self. We were VERY impressed, being that she is only 2 1/2 months. I do not think she will officially really sit up for a while, but it was fun to do. We got some cute pictures of her smiling that are absolutely wonderful and I thought I would share. One shows how she likes to play with her tongue, one is of her trying to really sit up and one is of her making her talking cooing noises. Enjoy.

It has been a while

Well, it has been a while since I posted last. It seems like I do not have much to say, but I know that when other people say that in there posts, I think that they have a lot to say. It is interesting to me, so I guess I will just start typing and it should turn into something good...I hope.

My brother Brady said on his blog that people need to be needed. That is so true. The other thing I think is important is that people need to feel like they have a purpose. And I think that finding that purpose is what life is consisted of. I think this is the constant battle; finding purpose. We can choose to be happy, or choose to be unhappy, but always improving. If that makes any sense.

I am excited for thanksgiving to get here. My whole family will be together, and for several days. Then Colin is supposed to go through the temple the day after thanksgiving, and all of us should be there, except for Tess who will be watching Kambria for me! How great that will be!

The other day I made bread for the first time, but I was given a roll recipe instead of a bread recipe, so the bread really tasted like rolls. It is good, but not my favorite. I made the bread in my Bosch mixing machine instead of kneading it by hand! It was a lot better to do it in the machine. Bryan and I did it together, since he had Wednesday off from work. It is fun that we can do these type of things together, yet still have him working every day.

Well those are the boring things of my life.
Until next time...

Same old same old

Just a quick thought...Life happens whether we realize it or not. I have now spent 2 months in my in-laws basement. Sometimes it feels like we have been here forever, and other times it feels like we just got here. But I have come to realize that time goes by whether I am unhappy or whether I am happy. I have decided to enjoy time and life, while we are in our current situation. I have been working out, which has made me a happier person. I also have tried to teach myself several new things. All of this time waiting around for something to happen; a decline or acceptance to Northwestern. We still have not heard a yes or no, but did have an email from the college stating there has been some hold up due to some red tape the college has had to get through. They said they will let us know when they know . But I have now I have realized accepted or not I need to make everyday count. Whether or not I have anything to show for it is something different, but everyday will count in my book...Until next time.

Cutest costume...

Halloween went well yesterday. Bryan dressed up as a pirate for work, which he made all by himself, of course with some coaching from me, and I put Kambria in her monkey outfit, that I made and took her to visit him at work and show her off there. Everyone, including the customers at the bank thought she was the cutest little monkey ever. It is always fun to hear complete strangers tell you that you have a cute kid! I certainly agree. Then we had Nate and Sarah Pettitt and Dave and Morgan Gardner over for a fondue night. We sat around and ate fondue and talked from 6:30 till 10:30. It was so much fun to hear everyone's perspectives on life and their thoughts bout what to do in life for a career. I think it was good for both Bryan and I to hear that one decision is not the "all" in your decisions about what to do for a career. Dave and Morgan are some friends that I think Bryan and I could have a lot of fun with. They are like a Shelby and Travis relationship that e miss. (Shelby and Travis were our good friends that we spent most nights with until they moved back to Utah.)

Well...It is now November 1st! Cold and turning more like winter every day! It just means less time until thanksgiving and Christmas!!! That is what I have to look forward to since we STILL do not know whether Bryan has been declined or accepted into Northwestern. Bryan sent them an email today asking if they had any more info for us.

Well until next time...

a preview to Halloween...

Well on Saturday night we had a ward Halloween party night and Kambria won the cutest costume award! It was the most fun hearing the oo's and awe's from people once they found out that I made her costume...And mine and Bryan's...Well Bryan really made his own costume...Along with my help. It was a lot of fun. Now we can hardly wait for tomorrow to dress up again. We are having our friends Nate and Sarah and another couple from the parkwood ward, the Gardners, over to our house for a fondue night! It should be a lot of fun!

That is what is going on for now...Until next time

just fun pictures

I thought I would also post just some fun pictures. Th first picture is Kambria's first piano lesson fomr her dad. She LOVES piano music and whenever it is played is VERY content to listen to it. For this I am grateful. The pictures with two babies in it is Kambria in the purple and our friends Nata and Sarah Pettitt's baby Hannah, who is only 3 weeks younger than Kambria...they are the same size basically. Enjoy

Ready for Halloween?

So I am almost done with all 3 Halloween costumes for us this year...Kambria's monkey outfit, my monkey outfit ( I couldn't think of what else to be) and Bryan's pirate outfit, since he has to be one for work. But I put Kambria in here Halloween clothes today and she is most cute...Although truthfully you would not know if she was a girl or a boy. Usually I put a colored bow in her hair if I dress her "neutral" meaning no pink... This you can tell from the red outfit...But it says, "grandma loves (to spoil) me and I thought it most cute! I am just having so much fun dressing her and then taking pictures. Hopefully I will still have this much energy when the next kids come along...Who knows.

So Don and MaryEllen, Bryan's parents, left this morning for their adult reunion. So Bryan and Amanda and I have the house to ourselves. It definitely is weird having to figure out how to cook again ;o) not really but different being the only ones here. Bryan is going to a bank work party tonight so Amanda and I are going to go to Chick-fil-a for dinner since Bryan gets to go out...He can not have ALL the fun!...
Until next time

Nothing new yet

Well I have not posted in a whole, because nothing new has really happened yet. Bryan and I have been working on his Halloween costume...yep that is right Bryan has been MAKING his costume. He loves to use the sewing machine, probably because it is a machine that he gets to use. He is going to be a pirate so I have been showing him how to read a pattern and he has done quite well. We made his shirt and now are in the process of using that shirt pattern to make his vest. Then we will move on to make his head dress bandana like thing. Then once his outfit is done I will fix Kambria's and then start on mine. Hopefully they all turn out good. I will post them once they are all finished!

That is the comings and goings for now.

What fun it is...

Being a mom has been so much fun lately. Kambria is finally starting to smile and me and Bryan on demand. When we start to talk to her she smiles up a storm. So that is how we FINALLY captured it on film.

I also have figured out that onions have an effect on Kambria's tummy. On Monday night we went to Texas road house for dinner and got on awesome blossom and since then Kambria has had a LOT more gas and liked her tummy positions a lot more too. So I am paying for the wonderful treat I had. I am not quite sure if it was worth it and whether or not I would do it again. I have decided that at least I know onions are not the choice food to eat.

So we have had our first snow storm of the season last night. So I will have to go take pictures and post them. I am not quite ready for snow, but then again I do not know when I would be ready. I like the fact that it has snowed and stayed on the ground, but not on the streets. That is the best kind of snow, and here in Colorado it NEVER says for long.

So tonight Bryan surprised me with another b-day present. He got me a Willow figurine with a mother holding a brand new baby on her shoulder. It is called 'Angel of Mine' and it is perfect! We have a little collection of these figurines and so I was really excited to receive another one. And the fact that it is a new mother was even better!

Well until next time...