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She is getting up on all fours and swaying back and forth. She knows what she needs to do, she just can't quite do it yet to crawl. :) Pictures to come soon.

We have a house. :) It is in Antelope. Pretty decent size house. Ok size yard. Sufficient enough for the dogs and child. There are fish tiles in the main bathroom. We have a lot of work that we want to do to the inside... but first is the roof. We just found out that is needs to be replaced BADLY. Joy. So, we will repair it for the Winter then replace it in the Spring. But, it is a house. Our house. Our HOME.

Christmas is coming up and I am not ready. Wedding is coming up and I am not ready for that either. I am not ready for anything. Everything hit so fast this year. Alyssa doesn't need much this year, so thank goodness for that. I am not ready to hit all the toy stores with the crazy shoppers just yet. :)

Finally... She's updating

We took some photos a couple of weeks ago of Alyssa in her Halloween costume. She was the cutest little giraffe ever. :)

Yesterday, we went to the Picture People and got our own photos done. Yay. Now we just need to get Daddy over there and have our family photos taken. We are also planning on taking the dogs with us to include them in the pictures, so that will be both awesome and interesting.

Lance and I agree, that yes, she has my nose. Well, really, she has both of ours. She has the length of his and the bottom of mine. Poor girl. :)

There really is not much going on for us. We are still house hunting and it is hard. Sometimes I just want to give up. But, I want for us to have a home, so I am sticking with it.

I started Alyssa on solids about 2 weeks ago. She is doing great with it. She doesn't like the rice cereal much, but she loves the veggies. We started on green beans and now we are on squash. She LOVES squash. Just like me.

Right now, she is sitting beside me... watching what I am doing and playing with the fabrics around her. And reaching for the keyboard of the laptop. And the mouse. :)

Well, now I am off to bath her and take us to wal-mart to buy tons of cough drops as I have been using them like candy for the past week. What is worse... I am not even sick!!

zoo heads!

6 Month Photo Shoot

Music..

I miss having the time to really listen to music. I love music. I always have. But I haven't had the time or energy to really sit back and listen to any. I use to search the internet and look for new bands that I had never heard before. I don't even remember the last time I did that!

Right now I am listing to music a friend of mine made and it is so beautiful. I love it when you can clearly see how talented someone is. It makes you so happy for them. I wish I had that kind of talent. The kind that you can share with anyone, not just those physically around you.

I have come to the conclusion that Lance works WAY too much. I never get to see him when I want to see him. I should be use to this by now, but I am not.

It is sad. It is only 8:37 and for the past 20-30 minutes my eyes have been rolling... wanting to take me to sleep land... too bad my mind wants me to stay awake to see my husband.

Finally, a post

I always feel as though I have nothing to update about. But, really, I do. There are the small things that happen in day to day life. The things so small you take them for granted each time the day passes. Life is short, and my daughter is showing me this. It seems like it was just yesterday that I was sitting in the hospital amazed at something so small. Now, almost 6 months later, I am calling her monster. Not because she is a monster, but because she is the size of one! She has grown so much in such a small amount of time. I feel my tiny baby floating away and sailing toward me is just a baby. It may not make sense to you, but it makes total sense to me. In some ways, it makes me sad. I want my small baby back. The one that you have to rock to sleep, the one that only smiles for gas and cries for food. Still though, I am excited for what is to come. She is so close to crawling, it is not even funny. She smiles all the time, and at everyone. She almost falls asleep without help at night and doesn't wake up at all during the night. I can not wait for the crawling and chasing and baby proofing and walking and all of those things. I just wish these stages of her childhood lasted a bit longer.

Right about now, I am kicking myself for not keeping the camera close by at all times. I need to find out what kind of camera a friend of mine got, because I love the quality of her photos that she posts on her blog. I love photography enough to finally allow myself to get an awesome camera.

House hunting is still on... I felt so close the other day to closing the deal on a home and now I feel so far away. I hate house hunting. I do not recommend it.

We were suppose to go out tonight and take Alyssa to the "pumpkin patch" and take photos by the pumpkins and smiles and what nots. Too bad the clouds decided it was a nice time to pee on us. I love rain and all, but when it ruins my plans of fun... that is just not cool.

too tired to write - only able to post photos...

Wedding in December?

Yes. Wedding in December. My brother is getting married... but why in December? And why would you want to pick the week that falls between Christmas and New Years? All that snow as well! Plane ticket prices are up the ying yang that time of year and driving during that time is just pure torture. I'm happy for you two... but, as Gob would say (or any of the Bluth family) Come on!

All in all though, I am happy for him. He deserves this after all of the crazy, crazy girlfriends he has had. And he has had a few. So for him to find a non-crazy girl and a keeper is just great.

Anyways, we are going to be hearing back soon about one of the top homes that we put an offer in on. I hope we get it. It seems promising but you know how that goes.

I bought Alyssa the cutest thermals from Wal-mart and had her wear them last night to bed. SO CUTE. I will post a picture later... I am at work right now. But pink + DOGS = cutest thing ever.

Support

I am doing this: http://www.downsyndromeinfo.org/buddywalk

You need to do this. It is for a great cause. I have never done anything like this, but I want to support an old friend of mine, her daughter and family. Also, my next door neighbor.

If anyone wants to join in, let me know. We can car-pool!

Quickie

Not much to update on at the moment. Right now, Lance is asleep on the loveseat... Alyssa is in her crib and I am here on the sofa waiting for SNL to start.

We put 5 more offers out there on some homes we have seen. That makes a total of 6 homes with our offers on them. This is such a long and crazy process...

SNL is on... and it is hillarious... with Tina Fey as Palin... loves it... gotta go!

Birthdays, Homes and other things

Well - that house was a no go. But it got our feet wet in the pool of house buying, so that is a good thing to come out of it. We put in another offer on Monday on another... and so it goes. I just wonder how long this whole thing will take.

I would post more pictures, but I am at my parents house and don't have my camera here. Alyssa is getting so big though. So many big changes occur while I am at work. Now I know how Lance felt when I was at home with Alyssa for those first 3 months. And even still, sometimes he will get home and she will already have gone down for the night. But those nights make it even more perfect and ideal for him to wake up with her in the middle of the night if she wakes up. Too bad about 98% of the time, she sleeps all the way through. But really, it is a VERY good thing that she does that.

Right now, Alyssa and I both have the sniffles, so I hope Lance doesn't catch it. That would just be bad.

The 1st was my birthday! My lovely hubby got me a wii! It is so much fun. It makes me feel like we do so much more together now that we have it. Now it's not just "oh lets watch more tv together and not connect." I love playing games with him. And last night I was gifted a wii fit! So perfect. I love it. Love it love it love it!

That is all because my head is too cloudy to think of anything else to update about. :(

A New Home??

Last night, Lance and I put an offer in on a house. I do not have high hopes that this will go through seeing as how there are 7 other offers... but this is a good step for us to see what is out there. If the offer goes through, crap, we'll have a house... with a basically brand new spa. Now THAT would be nice to come home to on rough days. ;) Well, to anyone who reads this, send us good home buying vibes from today to Friday when we find out.

That is all.

This morning I went in to check on Alyssa, and found her like this:

She had completely turned around! She is starting to go all over that crib of hers. Also, she did have pants on but sometime between 3 and this morning at 7, they came off. They were too big to begin with, but I wasn't expecting them to come off completely. Made for a cute picture though, so whatever.

She is starting to really kick things with her feet. She LOVES to kick this bird on her play mat. It moves back and forth, so she always aims for it. Soon enough she will be rolling over... you can see it in her movements. She is really growing up too fast. But it is so amazing to be able to see it happen right before your eyes.

And as a side note, this blog will mainly have postings about Alyssa. Lance and I never have the time or chance to really get away or do things. We rarely get time to spend it as a family. But if we ever do something, I will try to update with that. But mainly, things will be all about Alyssa. But, here is a photo of Alyssa and her daddy. Just hanging out. What we do best.

I need to remember to do this more

wow. i really need to learn how to update this more often.

nothing much has changed around here for us. alyssa did get blessed today in the church that both lance and i grew up in. it was nice to have some family there for that. afterwards, we went back to my parents house for some ice cream cake and catching up.



oh, also, we are thinking of buying a house. somewhat of a major step for us, but if it is meant to happen, everything should work out.



she found her hand the other day... lance kinda helped a bit, but ever since then, we can not keep it out of her mouth. it is way cute... but so messy! :)

First Posting

I have been putting off creating a blog for a while, but decided it was about time I did it. This will mainly be a place for family to keep track of what might be going on when they can not be around to experience things with us. Regardless of the fact that we really do not do much, it should be fun for others to read.

Alyssa Lynn McNicol was born on May 9th, 2008 and was 8 pounds, 20 inches. She has since grown to be 10 pounds and 23 inches long. We are out of the newborn clothes and into the 3 months. It is sad to me, being that she is not even 3 months!

Well, I need to go as she is starting to stir in the pack n play. But, first, here are a few pictures.