Out of Commission

So I haven't been able to post lately because I've kind of been out of commission. A little over a week ago, I had surgery to remove a ganglion cyst from my left wrist. I've been really sore and was on some major pain killers for a while, but things are much better now.
This picture is right after I was able to take my splint and bandaging off. I get the stitches out this week. It's been kind of annoying not being able to really play with Lucy like I want to and be able to hold her and pick her up but it'll be so much better in the long run! The cyst was really painful and now it shouldn't come back! Yeah!
As you can see, Lucy's hair is pretty much OUT OF CONTROL!!! It's like this all of the time. She moves so much while she's sleeping and when she wakes up, this is what her hair looks like. It's hilarious! Lucy is getting so big and funny. She is so much more vocal now and will certainly let us know when she wants something or wants to let her opinion be known. She still isn't crawling, she's a stubborn little thing. But she loves to stand! She wants to stand all the time. I really think she's going to walk before she ever crawls. She tries to walk and will let go of our fingers but she doesn't have very good balance so she just falls over. Oh the joys of a child finding their independence! It's just so much fun watching her discover all sorts of new things. My baby girl is turning into not so much of a baby girl!

Soon To Be Elder Wing

So my little brother Reagan will be headed to the MTC on Feb. 25th. He's going to the Seoul South Korea West Mission. Craziness! Anyways, he has asked me to be in charge of keeping a blog for him while he's gone. (Probably cause I'm the only one in my family that has one of my own haha) Here is the address :http://elderwing.blogspot.com/ in case any of you want to keep updated on him until he leaves and while he is out. I love you Bud and I'm so excited and proud of you!

It's About Time!

So I finally finished painting my house! Well, for now anyways haha. I love it! I needed color so badly. When we moved in, the whole house was all the same color. It wasn't bad, but after a while it just got old. So with lots of help from my mom, brother, sis-in-law, and John, we finally got it finished!

This is the front room...and Lucy
Another view of the front room, the front entry wayThis is the accent wall in the front wall with our family pictures on it.
I got this gorgeous picture of Christ and a wall quote to go with it. I love it! It's probably one of my favorite things in this room.Now for the kitchen, Another view of the kitchen. I love this wall! I love how bright this color makes this room.Love it!
Lucy's room. We actually painted her room when we moved in, but I don't think I've put any pictures up since then.I just love how bright and playful her room is!
I'm glad that I have this much done! Next project, my bedroom...

Hello 2009!

I can't believe that we are already in 2009! This year has gone by so fast and so much has happened! We started out this year with me being 5 months pregnant with Lucy and living in our tiny little 3rd floor apartment. At the end of April, we closed on our house and 3 days later Lucy was born. We have loved our home and our neighborhood and ward. We have felt so welcomed and we know that this is where we were supposed to end up. In August we celebrated our 1st wedding anniversary. I am so thankful for John and all that he has done for me this year. He is simply amazing and I love him so much.

Watching Lucy grow this last 8 months has been the most rewarding experience in my life. She truly is the glue that keeps our little family together. She is so big now and becoming so much more independent. I love it! I am so excited to continue to watch her grow this coming year.

It has been a whirlwind year but we are so grateful for everything that has happened to us. It has been amazing and we are so excited to see what this year holds for us.

Cindy-Lou-Who

I know this might sound silly, but I'm so excited! Why you ask? Because my daughter's hair is long enough to put in a tiny little pony right on the top of her head! I've been wanting to try it for a while because her hair is getting out of control but I just haven't. Until yesterday! It's so cute! She's growing up so fast and this just makes her look so much older to me! She's like a little girl now:(

Sitting so big and being so happyShe loves to stand nowDaddy giving some love

Best Christmas Ever!

Here it is. The Christmas blog. Christmas was amazing this year. I was so surprised at how different it was having a child. I have always loved Christmas, but now I think I love it even more because we have Lucy. It just made it so much more fun. We started Christmas Eve out by spending most of the day at my parents house. Well, Lucy and I did while John went out and finished his shopping. I was so much fun to spend the day with my family wrapping presents, eating food, and watching movies. That night, we went over to John's parents house for dinner and to exchange presents with his side of the family. It's always so nice to get his family together because it doesn't happen very often. His sister Shelley and her husband Jake and their baby Ava live in Clearfield, so we don't get to see them as often as we'd like. After dinner, we did presents. Lucy was the youngest so she got to go first. I'm so excited for next year when she'll understand a little better and open the presents herself.

Lucy got some great toys from everyone!

Her cousin Deacon wanted to play with everyone else's toys. He 's used to being the youngest so he didn't get his presents first.
She loved the bows too...Mom and Lucy on Christmas Eve

Haha! I love this picture! John's parents gave us all a Home Food Storage Starter Kit. We were way excited to get it because we are really wanting to get ours started. This was just an extra push and incentive to get us started.Later that night, we went back over to my parents house to do presents with them and to spend the night. It was so nice to have all of us kids there because this was my little brother Reagan's last Christmas at home for two years. He got his mission call a couple of weeks ago to the Seoul Korea West mission and leaves on Feb. 25th. It's going to be so weird to not have him around for those 2 yeas. He is honestly one of the funniest kids I know! It's gonna be so quiet without him around, but we're so excited for him to go.

Anyways, back to Christmas. These are Lucy's cute Christmas Jammies. I love them. She looked so cute!

I just love this picture! It just shows how happy she is. And she's like this ALL the time. She is one of the happiest little babies ever. I have been so blessed in that regard!This is how we found Lucy on Christmas morning. It was so cute. I love watching or seeing little babies sleep. Anyways, I felt bad because we woke her up so early (5AM), but it was Christmas!

Still trying to wake up, but loving the books Grandma Wing got her.
Lucy's equivalent to ripping wrapping paper, suck on it until it comes off. It worked wonders!
She loves all her new toys. I'm actually happy she got so many. She's been getting so bored of all her little baby toys,so it's nice for her to have some "bigger" baby toys. haha
Later that morning we went and had breakfast with John's parents and then later that night we went with my parents and family to see "Bedtime Stories" (which was VERY good, I would highly recomend it). It was just a great day. I love spending time with our families laughing, playing games, eating and just enjoying each others company. Next year will be so different because not only will my brother not be here, but we'll probably stay home with Lucy and do our own Christmas. So it was nice to have this year to just be all together, sleeping all in the same room, opening presents together, and just spending the whole day together. I'm sure we'll still see everyone next year, it will just be different. Anyways, this has been an extra long post so I'll cut it short. I hope everyone had an amazing Christmas and that you all have an excellent New Year!

PS I thought I'd throw this last picture in here because I was so proud of myself! I made our stockings this year so we would all have matching ones. I got more material so I can make more whenever I have more kids, but I just love them and it makes me feel good and crafty knowing that I made them!

All Better

So Monday Lucy had her surgery to remove a cyst (hopefully benign) that she was born with on her tongue. We had to be at Primary Children's at 6 AM so we were up really early. (I don't think John has yet recovered.) I was so happy cause Lucy was in a good mood while we were waiting so that made things a little easier. We were able to walk with her to the door of the operating room then the anesthesiologist took her from there. The whole procedure only took about 30 minutes. After the doctor came and talked to us to ell us everything went good, we were able to go to recovery and see her. When we got there, John went to the bed and just said "Hi Lucy" and she lost it. Absolutely screaming! The nurse had me pick her up to calm her and try to give her a bottle cause she hadn't eaten since about 9 PM the night before. As she was eating, I noticed some blood coming from her mouth. I asked the nurse if it was normal and apparently it wasn't. The bleeding got worse and she was crying so hard so while I held Lucy, the nurse had to hold a towel on her tongue to try to stop the bleeding. After about 10 minutes, we finally got it to stop. It was so sad. I was crying right along with Lucy. Once we got everything under control and got her to eat something we were finally able to go home. She has been a little loopy with the pain medicine but she's getting so much better and getting back to her normal, happy little self. I'm so glad that we were able to do this before she was old enough to remember it. We'll find out in a couple of weeks if the cyst was benign or not. We're pretty sure it's not, but we're keeping our fingers crossed nonetheless. Thanks to everyone for the prayers. We definitely felt them all!