Grandma and Grandpa Chalmers visiting

Paul's parents have been visiting on and off for the last few weeks and we have had a great time with them before they leave on their mission. Soon they will be gone to Columbia so its nice to have some time with them.

 

  Grandma and Grandpa got the girls Jenga to play. Its perfect for Bailey with her broken leg. I think they like using it for building too!

Vinyl

We are pretty much always crazy busy (hence why my blog updates are far and few between). Most people who know us, know that we started a little vinyl lettering business about a year ago. Now when we tell people that, I don't really think they can really picture it... We pretty much spend every evening for hours working on cutting, peeling and transfer taping the stickers. Its a long process but has been quite a blessing for us. Paul's mom took some pictures for me and I thought it would be fun to blog about it. This is all in our basement. It was a long exhausting day. At this point it was about 9 at night, I had worked all day, then spent about 5 hours on vinyls. On the tables, couch, etc are about 45 different vinyls I was working on.

The room is kind of a wreck but everything around is vinyls we are working on.  Notice the chair made of vinyl. Its Paul's masterpiece and is made completely out of scraps of vinyl.
This is how we keep Jaxon occupied. Its his own little play pen. He's always with us while we work and is usually great!

Our workspace... All the vinyl rolls

 

Our little business in nut shell... I think in a few years this will be fun to look back on!

New cousin

About six weeks ago, Paul's brother and his wife adopted a sweet baby girl, Paige. They've been waiting a long time for Paige to be a part of their family and she's perfect! She's the 23rd grandchild on the Chalmer's side. We all waited patiently to see her (we were all super sick when she first got here) and my girls love holding her.

During the winter Kade always has a runny nose and thats why theres no pictures of him... But he has asked us if he could take her in the mystery bag at school (its pretty much show and tell at the preschool). We had a long talk about how you can't put people in bags. Kylie and Bailey think she's a little princess (just like the princess and the frog!). They all love Paige and can't wait until she's big enough to play!

Bailey's broken leg

These past couple weeks have been crazy. My poor little Bailey broke her leg and its been tough. On Friday (the 22nd) Bailey was playing upstairs and came down the stairs. On the last few steps she sliped and fell down twisting her leg. Paul and I heard the screaming but didn't think it was broken since it was just a few steps and it wasn't swelling at all. The poor child was in some pain and couldn't walk at all. about 45 minutes later she still was hurting so we thought we ought to get her checked out at the instacare at 10 at night and it was a good thing we did. She had a spiral break so the doctor gave her a splint and told us we had to wait until Wednesday to cast it. This pic was taken when she came home. She was absolutely exhausted!

 

She had to sit around all day while the splint was on. We had to carry her around, to bed, etc. She was a trooper. If you know Bailey you know she cannot sit still. She's a mover so it was slight torture for her.  I did her hair in the morning in two braids and this is how her hair looked at the end of the day from all her restlessness on the couch. 

 

It looks better in the picture than it really did. I had to use some serious conditioner and a comb to get the "rats nest" out. 

When the day finally came to get her cast, she was so excited. We took her to a specialist and since she still needed to be carried Paul took her. The best part was when he came to pick her up he had his own splint on. He had chipped a bone in his knuckle playing dodgeball! Yes dodgeball. He's playing for a league with some friends. It was quite the sight seeing him carrying around Bailey. She loves her new purple cast. She made sure every doctor, nurse, technician knew she wanted a purple one so she got it! She'll have this one on for two weeks then get her walking cast. She'll get the new cast  almost a week before she goes back on track.

Jaxon is 8 Months (this is a bit late I know! )

Things my darling little Jaxon is doing this month:

-Eating everything and anything. He's started eating finger foods, loves his puffs, waffles and just about anything that fits in his mouth. He LOVES solids and will not sleep well without eating them. He's a huge veggies fan, fruits not so much. He doesn't like sweet stuff I guess, what a silly baby!

-Crawling! The child is finally crawling normal and is everywhere!

-Standing. He can pull himself up and stand.

-Teeth. He's got his bottom two teeth and its adorable (except when he bites ya!).

-Babbling a ton. Nothing sounds like words but hes always squeekin and squawkin.

I love this boy!

Happy 2010!

Hope everyone had a Happy New Year. This year we were all too sick to do anything but sit at home and watch movies. I was sad at first but it turned out to be really fun. We made nachos for dinner, ate some junk, drank soda and watched our movies.  The kids made it til midnight for the first time... Kade made it with a little help. We banged our pots and pans, sprayed silly string and rang in the new year as a family. Hope everyone's New Years was good and safe. We love you all!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

 November and December were a busier months than usual. Paul and I have been doing a vinyl business (we sell vinyl lettering for the home) and it has been insane. Our sales tripled in November and more than doubled in December.  It was good for us but made it so we had no time to do anything but the stickers! Since I use my blog as sort of a journal and I haven't updated since October, this is going to be a long one. Sorry!

In the end of October, Jaxon and I flew to California unexpectedly for a funeral. Most people that know me, know that one of my best friends in the world, Allison, and I have been friends since we were three. Her father passed away and I had to go, he was like a second father to me. It was nice to see old friends, though I wish it was under better circumstances.  Since I was gone the last week of October, my kids missed out on carving pumpkins. They had to settle for vinyl on pumpkins in November. They turned out pretty good and I think we may do it again next year. Kade's is a traditional pumpkin, Bailey's is a baby, and Kylie's is a dog. The whole thing only took us about 20 minutes and no mess!

I just got a new camera and couldn't figure it out, hence the blurriness.

Jaxon this month has become mobile! He scoots all over the place very quickly! He also has started pulling himself up onto everything. We used the Christmas tree box to block him in the front room. This was supposed to keep him from attacking the Christmas Tree. He would use it to stand up and kept falling in it. It was hilarious. He never cried once just grinned and thought he was so funny.

 These pics were going to be on my Christmas Card that I never had time to make.  I love them and still wanted to share so Merry Christmas! From the Chalmers

School Christmas programs are so much fun. This year Kade had one too! They were all on Friday so it made for a busy but fun day. I took the day off and in between the programs did my Christmas shopping! It was great!

Kade did a great job! You could tell when he got bored but it was adorable to watch.

The girls sang with their choir and did great too!!

My mom, dad, sister, aunt Carol and cousin Jackie all came down for Christmas and we had lots of fun!

We visited Santa and told him just what we wanted. My sister, Amanda, takes the best pictures! She took these of the kids visiting Santa.

It snowed and snowed so Aunt Amanda took the kids outside to build a snowman and this is what they got (obviously it didn't snow a ton (: )

Jaxon is such a cutie! This being his first Christmas, we took lots of pictures! Here are a few in a Santa Hat.

On Christmas Eve, Paul's sister and her family (the Myers) came over and we had an awesome time eating and playing. We even sang Christmas Carols thanks to Jason's guitar playing! After everyone left, we did our own traditions: the kids opened 2 gifts, one from their sibling (we picked names this year) and their new jammies.  Then they put their reindeer food on the lawn (so the reindeer will see our house), set out cookies they make with Nana and some milk for Santa and read our stories. We had a great Christmas Eve!

Christmas morning was even better. The kids slept until 8! We opened gifts and all the normal Christmas stuff. It was a great day!

My fantastic sister informed us all while we were bowling on the Wii that she had never been bowling before in all her 24 years. She'd been to bowling alleys but never threw the ball. Can you believe that?? I sure couldn't. So of course the day after Christmas while everyone in the world was shopping, we went bowling and it was a blast. We took a family pic to record this momentous day for her but unfortunatley its super blurry. Oh well, I'm posting it anyways!

And some random pictures...

And this ends this super long post and the end of 2009.  

Happy New Year!

Jaxon is 7 months

Jaxon is now 7 months (almost 8 by the time I post this!). He is still the happiest baby and is so active. He scoots all over the house doing his "Army Crawl" He's been doing this for a while. We keep thinking, he's going to finally crawl but not so much! He loves to eat and is our big eater. His brother and sisters were not such fans of the solid foods but Jaxon just can't get enough. He actually prefers it to his bottle. He loves the rice cereal, I'm guessing because it fills his belly so well! He laughs, smiles, says mama and dada, and is not a cuddler. He loves his brother and sisters and always lights up when they come to see him. He has his two bottom teeth and shows them off frequently. We love our little Jaxon and can't wait to see how he grows!