Merry Christmas!

I was able to upload some pics (read the blog for explanation). Here are some from this month- I included this picture because of the other baby in this picture. He was born with this much hair. No joke. It KILLS me!! He is so cute!
Don and me at a Christmas party. Our white elephant gifts on display.
This was at a YW party. Chloe was exhausted as she refuses to take naps unless she is at home in a completely quiet house. She fell asleep in my arms. She is actually asleep in this picture.
Just another high chair picture. She likes to eat.
So we took our neice and nephew and my little sister to this place called "Amazing Jakes." It truly is amazing. It is a little indoor amusement park for kids. This is my favorite ride there. I am really wimpy, this ride sort of scared me. Notice my 3 year old nephew also on the ride. Ya, I am really, really wimpy.

My Kone.

Well Christmas has come and gone...so sad...but we had a terrific holiday! I'll have to add pictures later, although I don't really have any pictures since we lost our camera just in time for Christmas! But we found it again...Christmas night. So we missed taking pictures of the real stuff. I LOVE how that kind of stuff always seems to happen! Don has already headed back to work...and Chloe and I have resumed our daily schedule of eating and roating rooms in the house. It is a welcome change however. I got pretty pooped out from running around and doing all the Christmas preparations. So the best gift I got this year was my fabulous Kone Hand Vacuum. It might sound strange, but I was very excited to get it! And Don gave me a homemade coupon for a professional carpet cleaning. I am a little obsessed with dust bunnies and clean carpet. Maybe for my birthday I can get my grout cleaned. Also a little obsession of mine.

Anyway, I just wanted to say that I would not recommend two movies that I just rented. The first one Is the 3rd Installment of Pirates. I am porbably the last one in North America to see it, but I just wanted to say, what the heck? Did ANYONE understand what was going on? That movie had so many "twists" that the only way I knew it was supposed to be a "twist" was the dramatic music that would play in the background. I just kept going "huh?" and Don fell asleep. So I just skipped the last half and forwarded it to the end to find out the only thing that I really cared about finding out- If Will and Elizabeth got together. To which I still say "huh?" So I looked it up on Wickepedia (sp?) and now I sort of understand what was going on. I should have read that BEFORE I watched the movie. So either I am not that smart or that movie was really impossible to understand.

And the second bomber was "The Holiday." Really boring and annoying. The whole love story between Camera Diaz and the other guy was really, really stupid. I'm sorry, when did they fall in love with each other, or get to know each other?? Because it seemed like the only thing they did was kiss and talk about how complicated everything was.

Anyway I just wanted to share. And that is all. Hope everyone had a delightful Christmas!

Thank Goodness

News Flash worthy of a blog in and of itself:
After 12 hours of being awake, yes I said 12...Chloe has FINALLY decided to go to sleep. She better be getting a tooth tomorrow because it took a lot of restraint not to scream today.

And secondly...Don is officially out of school for almost a month.

And so I am very, very, very...relieved. And tired.
Good Night.

It's Beginning to Look a lot like Christmas

It's beginning to FEEL a lot like Christmas too. Too much to do, and not enough time. Well here are the latest happenings in the Mortensen Household.


Dad and Chloe take some time out for a little R&R. Football is the order of the day.




Chloe has decided she likes this toy. Thank goodness. It is the only contraption she will stay put in, otherwise she is rolling around the whole house. Oh and she got a front tooth this week.




Mrs. Clause is coming to town with her husband. Doesn't she look so cute! Thanks Aunt Jeanie for the super cute Christmas outfit!


Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night! Or afternoon or morning...you know, whenever you are reading this.

Christmas Family Pictures

So we tried to take our first ever official Family Pictures...However we might have to do a re-do because we neglected to get outside before the sun starting going down. Man the sun goes down fast these days! Check out the Chloe's thighs in this picture!
And this picture cracks me up too-Chloe has a grandma face in it! She is making funny faces these days and saying "Mama." She is so smart. She can already say my name. Okay just kidding, I am pretty sure she doesn't know she is saying me name!
Don has been gone so much lately that I was beginning to feel oeverwhelmed. So I contacted a Genetic Specialist and had him cloned. It's been really great. The Don on the left does dishes, washes clothes, and runs errands. The Don on the right takes me to nice restaurants and buys me jewelry. It is a very nice arrangement.
Did I mention Chloe has two very nice (and sharp) teeth? Well, she does.
P.S. these pictures were taken at The AZ temple.

This Week in Pictures

This week was slightly uneventful but nice. This was really funny in person because she was snoring and drooling. I think Chloe is outgrowing her swing and her other toys. And I am scrambling with ideas of what to do with her now! In other Chloe news, she tried (and liked) peas for the first time this week. Which surprised me because I was disgusted by the pureed peas color and stench. She just doesn't know what GOOD FOOD is yet!
And I put up my Christmas decorations. Our friend Debbie GAVE US this beautiful artificial tree. Thank you Debbie! I have always been opposed to fake trees, except my mind starting changing last year when I put up the dead tree a week before Christmas and then took it down a week later. It was so much work and all I did until we took it down was lie awake at night planning my escape route out of our house when the tree decided to go up in flames. So anyway, I am enjoying my tree which I put up right away and can be enjoyed for a whole month without worrying that it is a huge fire hazard. AND it will be just as pretty when I take it down as when I put it up. AND I don't have to vacuum up pine needles all over my house. But for the record, if the above reasons were not factored in, I would still favor a real live Christmas tree. Oh and a miscellaneous question? Why are tree toppers impossible to stick on top of the tree? They have like this weird spiral thingee that is supposed to hold it up. What? I just don't get it. It doesn't work. I had to use string.
And lastly, it rained all day yesterday. Glory, glory Hallelujah! And lots of snails came out to play. That was kind of gross, especially watching them slither up the window. I just imagined having to eat those on Fear Factor and almost threw up thinking about it.
Oh and one last thing, saw Enchantment last night...pretty cute and very clean movie. A little cheesy...but still enjoyable. Don told me not to tell anyone he went to see it with me. Oops. He loved it. : )