CHRISTMAS IN NEW MEXICO

This year we spent Christmas in Farmington New Mexico with C.J.'s parents and Grandparents. The decision to go was not easy. My doctor strongly discouraged us from going because of my preterm labor. If I did happen to have the baby in Farmington she would have to go straight to the NICU and would have to stay in the NICU in Farmington for at least 6 weeks. For us this would mean that I would have to live in New Mexico until the baby was out of the NICU while C.J. continued to work in St. George and Jaysa would have to spend most of her time at Grandmas house in Vegas. So the entire family would be seperated for the 6 weeks till the baby was healthy enough to leave. Our insurance would also not cover the baby if we had her down here so we took a big risk coming down. I know that a lot of people think we are crazy for coming down when I am on bed rest and so close to labor but C.J. and I prayed about it and felt really comforted that I would not have any problems while down here. After decideding to go we loaded up the couch cushions in the Durango so that I could lay down the whole drive and took off. I am happy to say that my contractions have been minimal and we have really enjoyed being with family for the holidays.

PACKING UP TO GO

Dad packed for everyone. We had to make sure we had enough warm clothes cause it was supposed to be pretty cold!

I love this cute beanie. I bought it at a garage sale!

"RUBOLF"

This is Jaysa and C.J. singing Rudolf the red nose reindeer. (Jaysa calls him Rubolf)

CHRISTMAS EVE

The Ferguson's have a tradition of opening one Christmas present on Christmas Eve and its always a new pair of P.J.'s. Jaysa got Dora P.J.'s!

Aunt Kindra and Jaysa

We put out some cookies for Santa but Jaysa is still a little young and didn't understand that they were for Santa. She thought they were for her and starting eating them!

She drank all Santa's milk.

She really enjoyed eating Santa's milk and cookies

CHRISTMAS MORNING

Jaysa opened up the bedroom door to find Jaysa's stocking that Santa filled

She brought it right in the room and started pulling everything out.

She loved eating all the candy.

Here is a video of her playing with some of the toys that were in her stocking.

More stocking fun.

OPENING PRESENTS

Jaysa had the most presents under the tree! She loved opening all of them and kept getting distracted every time she opened a new one.

Jaysa loves the Fur Real animals. My mom got her two Fur Reals for Christmas this year. One was a monkey and one was a dalmation that she has already named Pongo.

We also gave her two of those little zoo zoo hamsters that roll around on the floor. I guess they are really popular right now and all the kids love them right now. We found them at a garage sale still in the box and everything! We got four of them for 10 dollars! At the store one of them is 10 dollars.

She calls the hamster a mouse

She doesnt like it much when it starts to roll away from her. She thinks its going to get away from her.

We got her a little makeup set since she loves to put make up on so much.

and Nanna and Pappa got her a bee pillow pet

and a dressup outfit with some pretty jewlery

After giving the Jaysa her jewlery Nana said "you wouldnt believe what I had to do to get all those beads" Ha Ha she would.

Here is Pongo! This has been her favorite toy so far.

I wish I wouldn't have cut her off in this picture but she moved at the last second. Look at that cute face! You can see how much she loves her doggie. Jaysa also got some coloring books, a paint set, about 20 new dvds that were bought from a garage sale, (the lady only wanted .25 cents a piece for them so we bought them all) some chalk, some magnetic letter and numbers that go on the fridge and some glow in the dark stars that we will put on her ceiling. She got a few other things but I can't think of them off the top of my head.

Here is C.J. with a few things I got him. I got him that goofy hat he loved so much when we went to Bass Pro along with a beanie he tried on and really like. He also got a Bass Pro gift card and some of his favorite cologne

Jaysa playing with Daddy's hat.

Ms. Kindra in her cute grandma sweatshirt she got out of Sandy's closet

PLAYING IN THE SNOW

Pappa, Kade, Kindra, C.J. and Jaysa took off to find some snow to play in.

This was Jaysa's first time seeing real snow and being able to play in it. C.J. said she HATED it cause it was too cold.

Dad and Jaysa

Look at that cute girl!

Jaysa and her Shrek baby. She loves the movie Shrek. We were at a garage sale and let her get out cause there were a lot of toys. She found the three Shrek babies and would not let go of them. It was love at first sight for her so of course we bought them. She has been carrying them around ever since.

Kindra and Pappa

C.J., Jaysa, Kade and Pappa. Jaysa looks so much like C.J. when he was a baby. I have never had anyone tell me that she looks like me except for in this picture. She looks just like me when I was little.

Jaysa looks so cute in her outfit. I should also point out C.J's outfit because he is so proud of it and thinks he looks really good in it. He found this jacket at Savers and I hated it. I didnt want him to buy it but he was in love with it. Later when we were shopping at the mall he found this awesome hat that matched perfectly. He loves it!

Jaysa's first taste of snow

It looks like she likes it.

C.J. said Jaysa would not even move when he put her down in the snow. She just stood there and whined.

Even though she didn't like it C.J. said it was still fun to take her and watch her reaction.

Our tired little girl and Aunt Kindra.

SITTING ON THE BIG GIRL POTTY!

Its really obvious when Jaysa has to go potty. She starts walking hunched over and says poopy, poopy.

Nana has been taking her to the potty when she says she has to go and even though most of the time she has already gone in her diaper Nana empties her diaper into the big potty and sits Jaysa on it and lets her look at her poop in the big potty. Jaysa really hated sitting on the big potty before we came cause she was scared she would fall in but she is getting used to it now and doesnt mind it. I am hoping we can continue this when we get home because she is really making progress but I am afraid it might have to wait till the baby comes.

CHRISTMAS EVENING

I dont know what most families do Christmas evening, they probably read the Christmas story and do some more spiritual things but this year we... played Dare Uno! I will explain it a little bit. First you have everyone write a dare or two and put it in a bowl. Then you play a round of Uno but you dont stop when the first person goes out. You play till everyone goes out but one person and that person has to draw a dare out of the bowl. I didn't play but it was so fun to watch. I haven't laughed like that in a really long time.

WARNING! SOME OF THESE VIDEOS ARE GROSS!

EATING A CONCAUTION

Sandy lost so she had to pick a dare out of the bowl. Her dare was to let Kinda and Kade put together a concacution of whatever they wanted and she had to take a bite of it.

TASTY ARMPIT

Sandy lost again and had to lick C.J.'s hairy armpit!

WHERE HAVE ALL THE GOOD BOOGERS GONE?

I thought this was the worst. Kade lost and had to eat one of my boogers! I didn't have any really good ones you can't even see it on the camera so he got lucky.

C.J. really got lucky and picked easy dares. He had to kiss my belly and say "I love Paisley" ten times (Paisley is what we are thinking about naming the baby... Paisley Lyn Ferguson) and kiss Papa Big, his Granddad's cheek and tell him he was the best Papa in the world. I was hoping he would get a really gross dare.