Bragging

*WARNING* This post is full of bragging and all about "my family is awesome", if you don't want to read it, don't. But you're missing out ;)
So, I feel a little bit of a need to brag about my son, and so this is a great outlet for me :) 
Today Thomas fed himself breakfast, totally.  I gave him a bowl of trix (I actually held it so the milk didn't end up everywhere) and he took the spoon from me and fed himself.  He managed to only get a little milk on his onesie, and no cereal casualties at all :)  I did feed him the last few straggalers from the bowl, because he couldn't corral them, but he did it all by himself!
His new favorite thing to do is kick balls around, we have a lot of them cause he loves to watch them roll, and now he's figured out if he goes up to it, he can kick it and it goes all over.  He loves it, he gets so proud of himself.
He has his first taste of steak today. We went to Texas Roadhouse and my dad got prime rib, well Thomas has a few molars now, so I told my dad it was okay to feed him some meat. He wouldn't eat ANYTHING but my dad's prime rib.  It was great, he spit out the potatoes, the roll, the corn, my mom's pulled pork, nothing would make him happy but they prime rib.  He's starting off right :)
When we got home from the restaurant he was playing and I said to him "Thomas, do you want me to take off your coat?" and he turned to James and I and said "Yeah" and started to take off his coat.  We were so proud!
He will also now pick up toys and bring them to me if I ask.  So if he drops a toy, and I say to him "Thomas, can you pick it up and bring it to Mommy?" he'll pick it up, and bring it to me. He usually then wants it back, I mean it is only fair, he gave it to me, I should give it to him, right?  Of course our living room still isn't clean... ever, but we are working on it!
In other news, I passed my finance class. It was basically a miracle, because my teacher was nuts, but I did it!  I was so excited, I called my whole family :)
James finished math, which is also basically a miracle because he did his entire class in one week.  His dad and sister in law were instrumental in helping.  Without them it wouldn't have happened, and we love them and owe them a LOT!  We are currently coming up with a fun way to say thank you to them, thoughts?
Christmas is almost here, and we actually got snow today, of course it lasted about 2 hours, but hey, Thomas loved it, and we went and played while it was still on the ground :)

Great great week!

So Nuskin has been very very good to us this week!  We went to the Christmas party, it was really fun.  Good food, nice music, and tons of fun! Every year they give out a ton of prizes, every employees name gets put into a raffle type thing and they pull out names and give away TV's, vaccuums, Kitchenaids, and other fun stuff.  Well, James won!  He won a wood chip grill/meat smoker.  It was really nice!  He was so excited, he got to go on stage and he was so fun to watch.  As he was leaving the stage the President of the company said "Who is that guy? Where does he work? He should be in sales, he's funny!"  Then as we were leaving the party he came up to James and said "You were the best! Thanks" Then this morning at Costco (I'll explain in a second) we had like 30 people come up to us and tell James how awesome he was and how much fun it was to watch him, that he was their favorite.  The whole time I kept thinking "Well duh! I knew he was awesome! But it is nice for you people to realize it!" So after James won at the party, they then started giving the gifts that all of the employees got.  $100 gift card to Costco, two week pay bonus, $500 american express gift card, and a Kindle Fire!!!  It was so much fun!  And the morning after the party they always have a Costco morning for everyone to go and spend their gift card and play games and stuff.  We went, it was fun.  Then this afternoon James's boss called a meeting for everyone, and they let him know... HE DOESN'T WORK SATURDAYS!! I'm so excited!  I HATED when he had to work on Saturday, I'm so stoked! They want to cut back on overtime hours, so no more Saturdays.  YAY!  Anyway, it's been a right good week for us 'round these parts. Then tonight, we are going with my family to look at Christmas lights, I can't wait for Thomas to see them.  We also got him a new forward facing carseat to try, I think he'll love it!!  All in all, great week!!!

Gender ultrasound Scheduled!

I did it! I convinced James to go do an ultrasound at 16 weeks!  We will only pay $45 for it, of course it'll be like 10 min long... But who cares!  I'm so excited.  It's on December 15th at 3, I'll keep you updated :)  I'm thinking girl, and so is everyone else... So we shall see :)  Also, thinking I may have changed my mind about the girls name I have told EVERYONE we plan on naming our first daughter.  Which is bad, because it's my grandmother's name, and everyone is really excited about it.  So we shall see, but I am seriously thinking of how bad it would be if I changed it.... I don't think anyone will be too upset.... Maybe.  We had originally planned on Lorelie Elizabeth, however now I'm thinking I really like Charlotte.... I dont know!