Christmas Day (part 1)

Cheyenne wearing her new coat to Gma & Gpa's.

Christmas Day we went out to my parents' for dinner. All the kids were there and Grandma and Grandpa P. and Grandma C. were also there. We ate a delicious lunch including the wonderful dessert of butterscotch and raisin cream pies Gma C. made! After dinner we played some Australian Rummy. We had to quit at 4:00 because the Eagles game was on! While the guys (and Cheyenne) watched the Eagles, Gma P., mom, Brittany, Staci and I played MAD GAB. Cheyenne gave this game to Brittany and Staci for Christmas! For those of you who don't know about MAD GAB, it is a game where the card says something like Eye Mull of Machine and you try to figure out what you hear instead of what it says. In this case it is I'm a love machine. It was fun! The girls were pretty good at figuring them out! Here are a few pictures of our day!

Dad and Gma C. after dinner.

Cheyenne loves pickles!

Matthew helping Gma play Australian Rummy.

The guys watching the game. Oh, and Cheyenne! She was in there for quite awhile with them!

Cheyenne's First Christmas

A tradition at my mom and dad's is to go to church on Christmas Eve and while we are at church Santa comes and then we go home and open gifts. This year church didn't start until 8 pm. We didn't get back to mom and dad's until about 10. It was late but Cheyenne still enjoyed opening her gifts. She didn't do a whole lot of opening. Mommy and Daddy did most of it for her. She was very spoiled. We only opened the ones from Grandma & Grandpa, Great Grandma & Grandpa, Matthew, Brittany and Staci. She still had more at home from Mommy and Daddy! And we haven't had Christmas with Grandma Goalden (Scott's mom) yet! She liked playing with the wrapping paper and her new toys, which included:

• Baby's First Christmas ornament
• Clothes
• Frog Bath toys
• One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish with a stuffed blue fish
• Money
• Plate, spoon and fork set
• Clothes
• CUTE coat
• Baseball swinging toy
• Clothes
• Stocking hat and mittens
• Socks
• Her first Piggy Bank
• And probably something I am forgetting!

This is the cute coat!

We were getting ready to change Cheyenne into her Pj's and she decided she wanted to dance to the Christmas music that was playing.

Christmas with Great Gma and Gpa Goalden

Saturday evening we went to McPherson for Christmas with Cheyenne's Great Grandma and Grandpa Goalden and family. We played games, ate lots of snacks and opened gifts. The adults do a fun gift exchange. We draw numbers and choose a gift in that order. You are allowed to steal someone else's gift when it is your turn. We keep going until a gift has been stolen 3 times! Most people eventually end up getting what they want. We had a good time!

Opening gifts

Daddy got a rocking, singing Santa! Cheyenne loved it!

Cheyenne in antlers!

I have cards!

I called Hutch Wal-Mart this morning and they still hadn't received the part to print my cards. I waited a few hours and called them again. Still no part. I called the customer service for walmart.com and they said they could resubmit my order to another Wal-Mart but they probably wouldn't be done until Friday at 4:00 pm. Scott was going to go shopping again so I checked with him to see what he wanted to do. He didn't really want to go somewhere else to pick them up. I thought maybe my sister would go to Great Bend after school and get them for me but Great Bend 1-hour photo wasn't running either. My only other options were McPherson or Salina. My mom said that her or my sister would go get them for me at McPherson. I transferred the order there and then remembered that my younger sister had a choir concert tonight. Brittany and dad were going to go and get them. Then Brittany ended up having to take yearbook pictures of the concert. So, my dad went and picked them up and just delivered them to me. He had a hard time getting them because he said they were under RaeAnn "Clark"! Hopefully you all receive them soon!

Still no Cards

Scott went back to Hutch this afternoon and they still hadn't received the part so my cards aren't done yet. My mom is there right now but no one is in the photo lab. It looks like I will be going to Hutch tomorrow or not sending out cards (in the meantime we are wasting quite a bit on gas driving back and forth).

Frustrated

Today Scott, Cheyenne and I went to Hutch. The reason we went was to pick up some photo Christmas cards I had done online in the 1-hour photo lab. I had ordered some last week and picked them up Saturday. Well, Scott didn't like them and didn't want me to send them out. So we took another picture and I made new ones. When we got to Walmart to get them today they were waiting on a new drum. My cards wouldn't be ready until 4:00 this afternoon! I have to be to work at 1:00.

Since we were going to Hutch, I needed to go to Goody's. A friend and I had gone Saturday and purchased a few things. They had a sale to take an extra 25% off of most things in the store. As we were leaving we noticed something else and decided to go to JcPenney's and then come back and get it. When I got home that night I noticed that I hadn't received the 25% off of my first purchase. I had received 25% off of everything in the second purchase. I called Adria Sunday and she said she didn't receive it either. She called the store and they said if we bring our stuff in they will give us the sale. So I took all the stuff and our receipts back today. After an hour in Goody's I came out with $6! (I was expecting $20) Evidentally the second cashier wasn't supposed to give us the 25% off of every item. We thought that since we had received it on everything on that purchase the first one should have been the same. She gave me money back on what she could and said that the cashier would be in trouble because she overrode the system to give us the 25%. So maybe in the long run we came out ahead.

I am now at work so Scott is going to have to go back to Hutch this afternoon to get my cards. Hopefully you all will be receiving them by the end of this week!

If not...

MERRY CHRISTMAS

AND

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Curl

My mom watched Cheyenne a couple days last week and she always gives her a bath before I get there to pick her up. We always try to put a curl in her hair before it dries. Usually it doesn't stay until morning but the curl that grandma did stayed! It was still there when we went to work the next day.

Here is Cheyenne at work with me with the curl still in her hair

Cheyenne is very curious these days. I think she eventually pulled everything out of the diaper bag!

Hands & Feet

Hands and feet are an interesting thing to babies. Cheyenne found them both awhile back but has recently enjoyed sticking her feet in her mouth.

It is quite interesting to watch her. I wish that I was that flexible! Although I don't think I would want to put my feet in my mouth!

The things babies do amaze me! I just sat there watching her and taking pictures for several minutes!

Questions

Ok...I couldn't think of anything inparticular to talk about today so I will answer the questions Staci tagged me.


A - Available or single: neither
B - Best Friend: Scott, my brother and sisters; besides family, my roomies from Colby - Lana, Martina and Mandy
C - Cake or Pie: pie or DQ ice cream cake
D - Drink of choice: water, apple juice, orange juice, peach or raspberry tea, or sprite
E - Essential Item you use everyday: toothbrush
F - Favorite color: yellow or blue
G - Gummy Bears or worms: both
H - Hometown: Bushton, Kansas (address was Lyons, Kansas but claimed Bushton as home because I went to school there)
I - Indulgence: chocolate, ice cream
J - January or February: February - it's closer to spring
K - Kids & Names: Cheyenne
L - Life is Incomplete Without? God, family
M - Marriage Date: September 25, 2004
N - Number of Siblings: 1 brother & 2 sisters
O - Oranges or Apples: apples
P - Phobias or Fears: losing a close family member
Q - Fave Quote: "I Do" - Scott Hayes, 9/25/04
R - Reason to Smile: Cheyenne
S - Season: Spring
T - Tag 3 or 4 people: Martina, Sonya, Jennifer, Kaley (I don't have very many friends blogging) U - Unknown Fact about Me: I was born with an extra finger and extra toe. They removed them at the hospital when I was born and I don't have any pictures to prove it but I do have scars and you can feel a little bit of the bone.
V- Vegetable You Don't Like: honestly, I can't think of one
W - Worst Habit: it's not a real bad one but it's one I can't break - playing with my hair...I have always played with my curls
X - Xrays: scope of my knee
Y - Your Fave Food: I like all kinds, Chinese, Mexican, Italian and of course a good homecooked meal...most things as long as I don't have to cook them!
Z - Zodiac Sign: aries

Santa

Sunday afternoon we took Cheyenne uptown in Lyons to go see Santa. "Santa" was actually my Uncle Marlin. This made it extra special. She wasn't scared at all. She sat on his lap and just looked at him.

She turned her head as I took the picture and I was a little disappointed she did but after looking at the picture this is my favorite!

QH basketball

For those of you who saw all the pictures and posts about QH Volleyball...get ready for QH Basketball!!! My dad is the head coach and both of my sisters play. Although there aren't as many games that I will be able to go to but I will go to the weekend tournaments when I can. Hopefully they go to Sub-state and state in basketball too! They went to sub-state last year so they have a good chance this year too since they didn't lose any players.

Saturday QH played in the Tescott tournament. They played Tescott and won 73-11!!! Brittany had 12 points and was 100% (6 for 6). I think Staci had 4 points. The both did well. They also played some in the JV game and won it 63-30.

QH girls and boys both won the Tescott Tournament! It was an exciting night!

Friends and Shopping

Sunday we went to Wichita to hopefully start and finish Christmas shopping. Well, we got a good start but didn't quite finish. We're close though. While at the mall we stopped to get a Julius. Cheyenne loved it and learned to suck it out of a straw!

After the mall we went to see some friends from college that we hadn't seen for awhile. It was so good to see them. Martina and I were in the same sweet at Colby and then lived together in an apartment our sophomore year. We had a blast together! I miss her. It is nice that we live close now. Although we still don't see each other all that often. Since we all moved away and have careers and families it is more difficult to find a time that works for everyone to get together. We are hoping to all get together with some other roommates over Christmas.

Rafael and Martina Ruiz and Cheyenne

Grandma's Birthday

Saturday was my mom's birthday. They had their work Christmas party that night so Cheyenne and I went to see her that morning. I had Cheyenne "write" in a special Grandma card to give to my mom. She thought it was weird receiving a card that said "To Grandma" when she is usually buying those types of cards! Cheyenne helped my mom read her birthday cards!

My mom was happy that she got to see us on her birthday...her first birthday as a grandma! Cheyenne made it special. Here's to many more special happy birthdays!