Ce Ce's Birthday

Last Sunday we celebrated Courtney's birthday. Courtney was nice enough to let Emma help her open her gifts to help Emma practice for Christmas. Emma didn't really get into unwrapping too much but she sure did like one of Courtney's presents. Too bad she is not getting one anytime soon-at least till her mom gets one!

She actually cried when we had to pry this purse out of her little hands! Can't say that I blame her.

My Chassie

I just had to post these pictures of Emma and her "Chassie" which is what she is calling Cassidy these days. I thought it was so funny to catch her like this. Just about a week ago I saw similar pictures over on the Ray's blog. Good thing these Golden Retrievers have great attitudes!

Emma loves her Lilah also...we just can't be sitting on her!

Visiting Santa

We having been asking Emma if she wanted to go see Santa for about two weeks. She always shakes her head "no". Well last week she went to hang out with Tay Tay for a little bit and she thought Emma what Santa says "Ho Ho Ho". We finally decided that we would take her to see Santa and see what she did. On Tuesday I had Bradley take me to the office for a little bit and then Granddaddy went to the mall with us for our Santa trip and to ride the horses (The Carousel).

I was very hopeful when we got to see Santa. Emma was very interested in him and was even waving at Santa while we waited in line. She couldn't even look at the camera-she was too consumed with the jolly ole man!
As soon as Bradley put her on Santa's lap she lost it! She was no longer impressed with Santa and screamed until we took her off.
After the traumatic Santa experience we went to ride the Carousel. She liked the horses that were stationary compared to the ones that moved up and down. Overall, we had a great afternoon, made some fun memories and it was a great way to get my mind off of my upcoming surgery.


We came home for the hospital yesterday morning-I ended up staying over Wednesday night. I really don't see how people could go home the same day from that! I am feeling pretty good but still have some soreness (nothing some medicine can't fix!). Bradley has been a really troobper through this-he is really having to take care of two people-I can't pick up Emma so he has to do everything for her and right now is still pretty much waiting on me also.

Copy Cat

Emma has been in a real copy cat stage lately. The other day she came to me and wanted to her phone in her pocket. She walked around like this for quite a while. I can only assume she is copying granddaddy since he wears his phone on his side.

And don't ask me where she got this love of vacuuming?

Craziness

Well everyone knows that this time of year is so crazy. I have been busy with sewing and getting ready for Christmas. For some unknown reason I have done really well with preparing for Christmas early this year. Well, I guess this preparedness is going to pay off because I am now having surgery on Wednesday-crazy I know. I woke up around midnight with what I thought was horrible indigestion. I mean my stomach felt like it was in knots. Finally at around 5:30 am I decided that I couldn't take it any more and I needed to go to the ER-this was after failed Pepcid and pain medicine-I don't like go to the doctor, much less spending a lot of money at the ER!
Well after a few hours at the ER, pain meds and ultrasounds to look at my liver and gallbladder it was determined that my gallbladder is coming out! So 8am on Wednesday I will be having my first surgery-unless you count wisdom teeth, which I don't really count. I got to come home until Wednesday so I am spending time resting (sleeping b/c of the pain meds)and I figured I would update the blog. I have some pictures of Emma that I need to upload so I will probably do that tomorrow.
So when I got home this afternoon I figured I should try to finish as much Christmas stuff as possible. Let me just tell you-I think I am almost down with my Christmas shopping because of the internet. I ordered items from esty, Kodak Gallery and other various sites. I also tried to run most of my purchases through ebates.com. Does anyone else use ebates? I love it! All you have to do is start your shopping on www.ebates.com and search your stores from there. The sites will keep track of your purchases and give you money back from online shopping. Every quarter they deposit my cash back into my paypal account(they can mail you a check also)and it is yours to spend. So you are getting paid to shop! I already have over $50 built up in my account for this quarter.
Another one of my favorite websites is not for Christmas gifts but for my ease! Diapers.com is seriously the easiest website every! I don't think I have bought diapers at the store in months. I order a jumbo box of diapers once a month. You get free shipping if your order is over $49.00 and it shows up at your door in 2 days-that is so fast. If you haven't ever ordered from www.diapers.com before you can use the code EISONFAM on your first order and get $10.00 off. Oh, and an added bonus-go to ebates first and then go to diapers.com-right now ebates is offering up to 6% cash back on the diapers.com site.
Well there you have it-a surgery announcement with some rambling about my Internet sites. Can you tell the pain meds are kicking in?

Honesty...in 5 minutes, ok maybe 10 minutes

So a few days ago Mary K gave me an award. An honesty award...here is what I have to do:

1. Must thank the person who gave you the award and list their blog and link it.

2. Share "10 Honest things" about yourself.

3. Present this award to 7 others whose blogs you find brilliant in content and/or design, or those who have encouraged you.

4. Tell those 7 people they've been awarded HONEST SCRAP and inform them of these guidelines in receiving the award.

I started this long post last Friday about honest things in my life. I think I got too much into the post and it turned into a paper...with no pictures-no one likes that. So, I have decided to try and write what will pop in my head in the next 5 minutes:

1. Why five minutes? Well, it is lunch time and that is all I have time for!

2. I just had fried chicken for lunch. It was oh so good-but really fattening! But probably not as fattening since I didn't eat the biscuit, right?

3. Just as I took my first bite of lunch, Emma woke up from her nap. Will someone inform her of eating times? I left her playing in her pack n play-she was making happy sounds so it is alright.

4. She is still in there as I am typing. In fact she might have went back to sleep because I don't hear her.

5. The other day we think-Bradley is sure-that he heard Emma say "shut up". She is really in a copy stage. He told the dogs to shut up when they were barking at the door and she repeated. Oh, fun!

6. I can't remember what time it was when I started this post so now I don't know when my 5 minutes is up.

7. We still don't have New Year's Plans yet. Last year we played Monopoly...sounding better and better as the day goes by!

8. Looks like Emma didn't go back to sleep-now I hear her on the monitor asking for dada. Guess it is time to go get her and feed her that Lunchable-wow, what a healthy meal!

Ok, so those weren't 10 things but some thoughts that popped into my head. I wanted to at least try to fulfill Mary K's award qualifications. I am going to skip on the nominations. Mary K stole mine!

Oh yeah, it is 1:30 and my child is still in her pajamas...wonderful!

Camera Problems

I have been having some technical difficulties lately. Every time I plugged my camera up, the computer did not recognize it. I worked on it this weekend but couldn't figure it out. Finally, I had to download some service pack update and now it just magically works!
Needless to say, I had a lot of pictures built up on my camera.
I did a lot of sewing this weekend. Luckily I had a "helper"
She helped me by modeling
Oh and I always needed some organization tips from an 18 month old

and just what you always wanted...one of those ball popper things in your work room

Finally I think she got tired of helping and decided to just sit and talk for a while.

I really don't have anything to say about these next pictures, except I thought they were funny.

One of our new favorites at work. Emma loves to use The Shark Vacuum! I think she probably played with this for about 10 minutes. I hope this means that she is going to love the play vacuum that I got her for Christmas. I think my goal is to teach her how to really vacuum early!

Told you she loved it!!!

I am about to go to bed but I will work on getting better about blogging.

Mary K, I got your award message and I am working on it. I haven't fogotten.