December Week 1

December Week One

November 28-December 4

2010

Emily helped us finish decorating the tree by hanging the candy canes.

Mommy helped a little.

Emily hung a lot of them near her ornament of Sasha.

The loves of my life. :)

We tried to take family photos...

Emily was fascinated with the camera's self timer ability, so she continually readjusted the camera for us... which meant this was the best one we could get today.

out of focus, but I don't care...

silly photos with mom after dad left for work

Em stuffed the candy canes into each stocking

Emily and her friend Jocelyn had a last minute play-date on Friday afternoon, complete with Princess dresses, pizza and ice cream!

November Week Four

November 21-27

2010

Happy Thanksgiving Break!

Monday:

The morning was spent at inservice.

The afternoon had back-to-back doctor appointments for myself and baby.

Tuesday morning brought more meetings, but we were done early to start break.

Em's turkey from "Turkey at the Tiersma's" last Saturday.

Wednesday was spent relaxing...

Wednesday night Emily helped me make an apple pie.

Thursday morning we got up and started our food prep for the day, and then went to church.

I love our church's Thanksgiving service.

After church, we celebrated Thanksgiving as a family of three and though we would have loved to be with our extended family, it was perfect.

...perfectly simple...

...and sweet.

After naptime (we all took naps... every day... all week... and it was WONDERFUL.)

Em played while we took out the Christmas decorations Thursday night.

Pete set up the tree and I took care of the rest.

Thursday night Emily went over to Uncle Mike and Aunt Jill's and had a great time.

Mom and Dad woke up at 3 for some black friday shopping.

It's always an adventure, but this year I'm not sure it was worth it! :/

The Starbucks afterwards was nice though!

Thanks Michael & Jill :)

November Week Three

November Week 3

November 14-20th

It's tech week for my middle school musical and it started well...

I thought I was handling the stress well...

...but I was tired...

...and not eating well...

...and not feeling well...

Wednesday, when I was supposed to be at our dress rehearsal, we had to call the ambulance, I ended up in the hospital, and we had quite the scare, but it ended up okay.

...Let's just say though... it was a long week.

I stayed home from school on Thursday and Friday, had several doctor appointments, but still directed the musical (Thursday and Friday) and it went well.

More importantly though, we found out that our baby is fine, and I'm going to be fine too.

The emergent ambulance part of Wednesday was a stress and vasovagal induced panic attack combined with gall stones, but we have had several follow up appointments and though I'm on an almost only chicken noodle soup diet, I'm feeling much better. :)

Anyway... the pictures are not all from this week... I was a bit busy to take photos... but they're within a week or so.

Someone landed behind bars ;)

Saturday at Disneyland with Mommy & Daddy

On Thursday and Friday I enjoyed a bunch of couch time and my favorite fall candles.

Roses from the cast of our musical.

November Week Two

November Week 2

November 7-13, 2010

Life has been a little crazy lately.

"Sarah Covington Connell is busy busy busy, but at least my hubby is back home!"

I forgot to post that last week was my first concert of the year.

It went well. The kids played well... but nothing too exciting either. :)

This week is full of rehearsals for our musical, which opens next week, so every moment at home with this little girl is precious.

I also tried to take some photos of Emily, for a possible Christmas card, but Em was more interested in taking pictures of us!

November Week One

November 2010

Week One

October 31st-November 6th

Happy Halloween!

Emily was a ballerina this year and she was absolutely adorable!!

She has been sick, and although the doctor said she's probably not contagious anymore, we decided we shouldn't go to the Halloween party as planned.

Pete and I were bummed because we knew she would have loved to see her friends (and we would have loved to get some cute pictures of the little ones), but she didn't know the difference, so she was happy at home.

At each door she did a pirouette and then said 'trick or treat!'

After we finished trick-or-treating Emily enjoyed sitting by the window, watching to see the bigger kids come trick-0r-treating at our house.

Monday night I was coughing up a storm when Em said, "Mommy, you need tea and honey and jammies and to take a nap. It's ok, you'll feel better." Oh sweetie, I feel better already. :)

Wednesday was our anatomical ultrasound, and I have the ultrasound photos... just not online...

The doctors know the gender... but we decided not to find out :)

We do know that the baby looks healthy!

Friday morning Pete came to the middle school to talk to the 8th graders

about his career & calling.

That afternoon the guys left for their boys' weekend in MEXICO.

Emily and I had a relatively difficult weekend at home, but we survived,

and were just thankful they had fun and came home safely Monday night!!