I think electronics have brains!!

Or my husband is just crazy...

Last Saturday morning, Nick's alarm clock went off at around 2am!!! It never goes off that early ever. My initial thought was - "Seriously, electronics have brains!!" The funny part about this story is that I heard it go off and then I heard Nick hit the clock. I knew it was 2 am because I had just been up with Eden at around 1:30 so I thought maybe his clock was messed up or somthing. Then about 10 minutes later, the same thing - it goes off again!!! I look over and see Nick hitting it and I'm assuming trying to get it off. Then, yet AGAIN the darn thing goes off. Finally, Nick starts messing with it and then I see him unplug it. The next morning I was asking Nick what the deal was with his alarm clock and he said he didn't know. I asked him "Well, why did it go off so many times?" - and he says "Well I thought it was my alarm and it was time to get up so I was snoozing, until I realized that it was messed up and it was 2am!! Ok that is funny but not as funny as the fact that he NEVER uses that clock for his alarm, he always uses his cell phone as his alarm.

Oh me!!
-Carissa

Look at my daughter!!

Yes, that is her foot!! She is so silly.

This is Eden after we got home from playgroup. We had playgrounp yesterday at the Merritt's home. It was so fun and cute to see all the babies playing together and eating each other's snacks. Little Evelyn has 2 walkers and I let Eden try it out and she loved it and caught on quickly. Eden doesn't have a walker, so when we got home she went to her princess truck and started using it like the walker she used at playgroup. It was so cute. I think a walker may make a great Valentine's day gift!! ;)

An Awesome Weekend!!!

What a GREAT weekend we had! Seriously, it has been a while since we have had an all around great weekend...so obviously we must tell you about it... :)

Friday we got to leave Eden with Carissa's parents while we went to the worship team small group at our church. They all meet once a month to eat dinner, fellowship and have bible study. Its always a great time! We dont get very many times to go out without Eden so when we do they are always very special.

Saturday morning we headed to College Station to see our good friends the Mosiers. They just recently had their precious little boy, Cade Matthew Mosier. We have been anxiously anticipating the visit and were so excited to see dear friends. Its such a joyous occasion to see such an awesome Godly family be blessed with a child. We love them and are so excited for this next chapter in their lives. Check out the pictures of the hansome little guy...




After hanging out with the Mosiers we made another very necessary college station stop at the Bacaks. It was so great to visit with friends and to see how big their kids have gotten. We miss them and their kids so much, especially our God son Treston, check out the little man..


Eden did great on the trip to College station, we were very proud of her!

The BEST part of the weekend came Sunday morning. We woke up Sunday morning and realized that Eden slept all the way through the night without getting up... HALLELUJAH!!! Seriously, this has been a HUGE prayer of ours. She is known to get up a minimum of two times a night (on a good night). Carissa was beginning to think that she would never get a full nights sleep. God is so good! We were so thankful for that full nights rest. Lets hope this has becomes a trend!! Naturally we celebrated that morning with shipleys and a photo shoot... check our beautiful baby girl out... (4 teeth and all)

A long time coming!

Ok, it has been a little crazy around the Vann home this past month! We have been going non-stop and blogging is the last thing I do if I have time and frankly, I just haven't had the time! Life is in the fast lane around here for sure! This blog is for sure in need of some Eden pictures - who by the way is alrealy a little over 9 months!! I can't believe she is that old already. Wow. Pictures of my cutie will be posted soon, I promise! Anywho, here are some pictures of my SWEET and adorable nephew Cayden who was born on January 6th!!
Isn't he PRECIOUS??
I think he looks like a little man!

I will update soon on our lives but I just wanted you to see how cute this boy is!! I miss him so much!

Ps...Congratulations to our good friends Matt and Erin Mosier on their sweet boy born Feb. 1! Can't wait to see you soon sweet Cade :)





I wish I could hold him forever - he's so sweet!!


Cousins!!

Ever have a Route 44 kind of day??

This past week has been extra stressful. Little Eden has been teething big time and not taking it so well. She started last Saturday night waking up in the middle of the night and wanting to play. Now, this is not unusual as every once in a while she does this, but will go back to sleep within 30 minutes. Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday nights she woke up wanting to play - now THAT is unusual. She is a pretty good sleeper normally sleeping from 7pm - 7am and waking 2-3 times to eat (she will nurse for about 20 min. then go back to bed, so not bad). Waking up that many nights in a row is so rare for her. The worst night was Tuesday night. She went to bed as usual at 7 and woke up at 9 wanting to play. I tried to let her just play it out thinking she would wear out soon, but then it was 10, then 11, then 12 - finally 12:30 she goes back to sleep. But, she went to sleep in our bed so Nick moved to the couch. Then she woke up AGAIN at 2:30 played until 4:30 and slept until 7:30. So if you want to add that up - that's 5 hours of intermittent sleep for me and about 7 interrupted hours for Nick. NOT GOOD!!!! She was a BEAR all day yesterday and absolutely did NOT want to take a nap. I finally went to my last resort and put her in the car and drove around. She fell asleep but kept waking up crying, then went back to sleep. I just drove around for an hour just so she would have some time to rest her body even if she wasn't sleeping. While I was out I decided to stop by Sonic because I was dying of thirst. I wasn't really wanting soda so I just opted for water with lime but I got a Route 44 size. When Nick got home he saw my Sonic drink and he thought it was soda and says "Oh Mama got the route 44 - it was a bad day!!!!" I got tickled at his comment and wonder, do you ever have "Route 44" kind of days?? I want to hear your route 44 day stories! :)

and PS... Eden did MUCH better last night and we are praying she will continue to do well. Her front tooth came in a little more today and she was a lot better and also took 2 naps! PTL!!!

-Carissa

December Reflections

Phew...finally a chance to sit down and blog about our crazy, fun-filled December.

Our December:

- I hit and killed a deer and caused a lot of damage to our car (see post below).
Great start to December right?? LOL.

- It snowed!!!
I couldn't believe that it snowed here. A few Christmas's ago it snowed here and it was the one year my family went out of town. When it started snowing I think I acted like a kid in a candy store. I ran around getting everyone's jackets and bundling Eden up so we wouldn't miss the snow. Very exciting.

Daddy and Eden in the snow (yes I know you can't see it in the picture but I promise it was snowing!)

Me and baby!


My neighbor, Heather, and I catching snow!


- My best friend, Hayley had her baby 3 weeks early on December 15th. Hayley was a trooper and did a fantastic job delivering a beautiful, healthy baby boy! They are doing great and Alex and Hayley are wonderful parents!!

Meet Weston Williams Adarmes...

At the hospital!


A beautiful mommy and beautiful baby!


Pictures I took a few days ago...





- Nick and I celebrated our 2 year anniversary on December 16th!
Amidst all the eventfulness of having Eden, being the middle of the week and Hayley just having her baby, we didn't have a whole lot of time to celebrate. But, we did and had a great time. After Eden went down for bed my wonderful mom came over to watch her and Nick and I went to Benihana's. It was a blast and so nice to get away with JUST Nick. I can't believe it has already been 2 years since we got married, but I am so blessed to have such and amazing husband and wonderul father to our sweet baby girl! I love you babe!

(Images by Lynsey Kramer)






- We celebrated Christmas!
This year Christmas felt a little different. For one, we had Eden with us which was so fun and exciting. She was so cute opening her gifts although I'm pretty sure she enjoyed the wrapping paper more than the actual gifts themselves. I think Christmas felt different because my family decided not to give gifts to each other this year and just let it be about the babies (my brother's baby being the other baby but more to come on that - keep reading). We realized that with the economic issues etc and lots of our family saving for houses, moving, saving money etc we thought we would just use this Christmas to refocus on the TRUE meaning and forego gifts to each other. We watched the movie "The Nativity" on Christmas Eve and it was so neat to see the story portrayed in that way - it really made it special and a little different from just reading the Christmas story together like we usually do. Happy Birthday Jesus!!!

Eden ready to open her gifts!

Little reindeer!

Is that for me??

Whatcha got Mom?

Kissing her new babydoll.

Finally my own cell phone I can chew on all I want!!!

These are cool!



- We went to Utah!!That was the view from our room at sunset!

The day after Christmas we headed to Park City, Utah with Nick's family. It was a blast and so much fun to see snow at Christmas time! Nick's parents treated us to an amazing trip full of skiing, snow tubing, hot rock massages at Sundance, and relaxation at an AMAZING house! Our bedroom had it's own flat screen tv and a fireplace with a gorgeous view! It was so nice to get away and do something fun like this. We definitely needed it :) Here is a slide show from the trip.

- My brother's wife delivered their baby!!
I have a nephew!!! Cayden Glenn is here!
This actually happened on January 6th but I just thought I would mention it. We are going to visit them this weekend so I will post pictures of sweet Cayden when we get back!

We hope you all had a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!!

-Carissa

I Killed Rudolph

I'm sorry to say that this year Santa will not be coming as his red-nosed guide was killed on Friday night. That's right I (Carissa) killed Rudolph on Friday night.
Well, not really Rudolph but I did kill an 8 point buck with our Camry!! Nick and I were coming home from a Christmas party and I was driving in a wooded, secluded neighborhood. All of the sudden I hear Nick scream "WATCH OUT!!!!!!" I slammed on my breaks and screamed, then....BAM!!! It was all over in a matter of seconds. I sat there in disbelief with my hands gripping the wheel. "Nick, did I just hit a deer?" "Yeah, I think you just killed a big buck!" "I just hit a deer...oh my word, I just hit a deer"(Me screaming in terror) We had to pull up a little ways to get out of the way of other cars. I was glad for this reason because I did NOT want to see it!! Nick got out and checked out the car. It was for sure damaged but we didn't realize how much until we got home. We didn't go back to see the deer because it was dark and I just wanted to be home at this point. We could tell it was not in the road so we weren't worried about it being a danger to other drivers. The deer just ran out in front of the car and I'm not sure what I would have done if Nick would not have seen it coming or if I was alone! When we got home we saw that the front grill was pretty much ripped off and the front of the car on the passenger side was dented in pretty badly. The next day Nick went to get it checked out to see how much it would cost to fix it and the estimate was $2600!!! Ooops!

God was definitely watching out for us that night. I have heard so many stories of deer coming through the windshield, totaling cars etc. I made myself sick that night thinking about all the things that could have happened to us. We are so blessed and thankful God had his angels protecting us!

The next day Nick's parents took a picture of the poor deer as they live in the area. That's when we realized that I hit an 8 point buck! Nick was joking that he drove 3 1/2 hours on Thanksgiving weekend to go hunting and didn't kill anything and I drive our Camry at night and get a huge deer!!! HAHA.

For those of you worried about Eden in the car, no worries! She was sound asleep at home with her GG watching her! :)

Poor Rudolph!!


Poor Car!