...thanksgiving & babies!

we had the best time in susanville for thanksgiving. good food & fun was had by all! everyone was able to make it (including gigi marlene all the way from texas & shannon & kevin from idaho)! paige had fun playing in the leaves and in boxes- who needs toys? paige is smitten with uncle kevin (watch out daddy- you have some competition). nana paula & paige had fun sweeping the leaves in the back yard (nana swept - paige trampled through her pile - nana swept & it went on like that). we also had our christmas celebration and got to open presents! one of the highlights for me was getting to cut down our own christmas tree. if you know me well you know that i LOVE christmas and apart from my love of santa it is hard to compete with my love of christmas trees. i used to drive my family crazy at the lot trying to pick out the perfect tree. the tree we picked out is beautiful and HUGE...it was fun to see aaron chop it down! i have used every last strand of lights i can find in my stash of decorations to cover it. so fun. thank you papa randy for taking us up in the hills of susanville for my beloved tree!

in other news baby #2 is doing well- i am almost half way through the pregnancy!

if you want to see some pictures of paige from a few weeks ago check out the zakaryan blog. kim took them during our trip to southern california for katie's shower (we anticipate baby smith coming arrival this month- hopefully sooner than later for katie's sake)!

and finally- here are a few goofy pictures that the sherfields took/manipulated on their computer while babysitting paige. i guess it was really funny seeing her reaction to each new image as she of course said "baby" a million times (that is her favorite word and favorite thing for the moment...we hear "babies" a billion times a day).

baby

block head baby

alien cat baby

dumb jock baby

...elections & babies!

there is one thing elections and pregnancies have in common...

you cannot wait for them to be over!

we were excited to take paige to vote (although we were just dropping off our absentee ballots) and even more excited when she got her own "i voted" sticker! it is never to early to teach kids to vote! even though the elections did not turn out in our favor on all accounts- we were glad to see so many people vote this year, glad to see such a historical event take place & honestly...glad to see the whole thing end. has this campaign lasted forever or is it just me? also, i got to see our little baby moving around the yesterday. it is still such a miracle to me when you see that little tiny life moving around inside of you. i know it is there- but since i have not felt it yet i almost forget. everything seems to be going well with baby...here are a few of the pictures! enjoy!