Ouchie

So I had Sariah with me at work as usual. She just kind of has free reign on my office floor. I put out a bunch of toys and she just crawls around and plays. Well Monday, I ran up to do just a few things. She was crawling around and went to climb up my desk/push herself up to her knees against the desk. And you guessed it, her hand slipped and she banged her head really badly. At this time I was on hold on the phone with our UT office. So I think she has just hit really hard and I'm trying to grab her binkie to calm her down as she's screaming. Then I look down and realize she has actually hit the corner and hard enough to cut herself and is bleeding everywhere. And of course I'm wearing a cream sweater at the time. So phone against my shoulder, I'm rushing down the hall to the bathroom with my screaming bleeding baby to get some paper towels. Then the UT office person comes back on the phone so I'm trying to finish quickly with her, put pressure on the wound...I get off the phone and a lady from another office comes into the bathroom to see if everything is okay. I explain what happened while Sariah won't let me keep anything on the cut. I go back to my office to get a band aid from my purse, since I normally keep a few in there. But no luck. I go across the hall to ask John if we have any band aids in the office and shortly explain what happened. Trying to keep the paper towel on her head since it is a head wound and won't stop bleeding. But no luck, we have no band aids in the office. Then I remember that my Scion owner's manual came in a nice little zipper case and has a small first aid kit in it. (THANK YOU SCION!!) So I'm putting a blanket around Sariah and going down to the car to finally get a band aid on her head to keep it from bleeding everywhere. Needless to say I packed up at work and headed home after that.

Big sigh! It was such an ordeal. I was like why did I come to work today?

So here are some pictures of her with her lovely band aid:

And here is the day after of the actual cut. And yes this was 2 days before her birthday and birthday party so just in time to be in all the pictures!!

Cutie in black

So I'm trying to catch up from my crazy week last week. The house is almost back in order. This is just a little picture of Sariah modeling the hat and scarf my mom made us as a Christmas gift. James actually got in the gift exchange. But I liked it so much I claimed it for myself. And it looks like a little someone wants it too!

Scrabble

So James and I decided to play Scrabble just the two of us tonight. We usually play with my parents a lot. So it was interested just having it be he and I. Normally, James and my dad are neck and neck and so are me and my mom. With James and my dad being about 30-50 points ahead of us girls. Sooo to my shock and amazement, I totally whipped him tonight! I was so proud of myself I decided I had to blog it!

Sam: 241
James: 195

Yippeee for me!

With the Mayos

So I called in a favor for our family gathering. With everyone in town, we really wanted to get some family photos and especially photos with my dad done. So who better than one of my dad's best friend's Bruce Matthews. I felt so bad calling him last minute, but my sister encouraged me to as least ask. So Saturday, I called and tried to tell him that he could say no if it wasn't convenient. But Bruce is such a wonderful guy and said that it was no trouble and he would love to do it. I was thrilled.

And he of course took the best pictures. I had so much trouble trying to pick my favorite. These are pictures that I will cherish so much. So here are my top picks:

The whole crew:
Dad with his girls:

Dad with his boys:

My wonderful parents. Aren't they the cutest!! I feel incredibly blessed to be a part of a family with parents who are still in love and are the best examples of a happy marriage.

And now from oldest to youngest:

Kristin--

Lisa--

James--

Seth--

Meagan--

Samantha (Me)--

So thank you, thank you, thank you Bruce!! This was the best part of my Christmas!

At the Ransoms

We spent the afternoon and evening at the Ransom Big House- aka James' parents. It was really fun. The whole family was there, even the siblings that live out of town. James is the 3rd of 9 kids.

Here is me with James' sister Jade on the left and sister in law Merilee on the right. We had soup that day. It was so yummy. I tried out a new recipe for brocolli cheddar soup. It turned out so good. I think I'm going to make another batch today!

James and Sariah. You can't quite read it but her shirt did say My First Christmas.

Me and my baby:

Here is James playing with the new doll he got for Christmas. Okay just kidding. That is his niece's doll. She brought it over for him to put her dress on. Then she left James and he didn't know what to do with it.

Here is the whole crew:

Now the three sister in laws. Hmmm One of these things is not like the other. So I never really noticed before but I'm a little the odd man out with them. Dark, short hair, glasses. Oh well! They are both great!

We tried to do a grandkid picture. Not everyone wanted to cooperate. I was actually really surprised that my daughter did so well.

Okay I had to include this. This is our nephew Brick. By the end of the night he was just sooo tired that he found this cozy spot in front of the fridge.

And here's one more of Sariah for good measure! :)

Christmas morning

So Christmas morning, I remember to video the event but didn't really take pictures. Here are a few I snapped afterwards of Sariah with one of her new books.

Need to blog

So I am going through a bit of withdrawal. I haven't posted in a really long time. With the busy of the holidays there has just been no time. And I'm not really ready to post what I want to post.

I have made some resolutions thanks to some others who posted theirs. It helped whip me into shape and get mine written down. This last Sunday the talks were on Goals. So it helped me refine and ponder mine. I decided to scale back a little this year. To really try to set some things that while they would push me would also be doable! So I'll share some:

Take some sort of class to further my education
Go to the temple with my dad
Finish Sariah’s 1rst year scrapbook
Finish reading the Bible all the way through
Run two times a week


I have a few more, but this gives you all something to ask me about later and keep me in check to see how I'm doing. Hopefully I can remember to blog it when I finish one. Some of these will be on going but others I'm hoping to knock out at the beginning.

So I'm also trying to back up my computer and all of my photos for the year. James was harping on me today to do this. And it is good. I know I should do it and that I would be devasted to lose my pictures, so I'm thankful for the push to get it done. Once I have that done I will get some more posts up about our holidays.

But I'm ready to start the new year. To move forward and upward. Staying more organized and finding more time in the day....hey I can dream right!?!

Stay tuned for a big blog barf once I start on posting everything! hehe