Tis' the Season for Celebration

Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas everyone. We hope all our friends and family are having a great holiday season. We have been busy getting ready for Christmas, baking lots of treats, wrapping goodies, having parties and trying to get our shopping done. I feel like I'm on that old game show "Supermarket Sweep" every time I go shopping. Mae can only last so long before she has a little meltdown in the store so I plan my list out strategically and make a dash for it once she's situated in the cart. Our experience at Target last week was comical. I was running all around the store, shoving fruit snacks in her mouth as we went and ended up throwing things in my basket that I didn't even want. And in the checkout line, as we were nearing the end of Mae's rope, she grabbed for my shopping list and started to eat it. I figured, a little fiber never hurt anybody so I let her chow down and proceeded to empty my cart to be rung up. The lady in back of me said, "Excuse me, did you know your daughter is eating paper?" I told her I'm sure she thought I was a terrible mom but at that point, I'd do whatever it took to buy me a couple more minutes to get out of the store. She thought for a second and then said, "I understand, I've done it with four of my own kids." Oh boy! Hopefully we're almost done with the Christmas shopping for the holiday.

We also celebrated Mae's first birthday on December 2nd. We had a party with family and were all excited to see Mae go to down on her cake. Much to our surprise, she didn't know what to do with it just sitting there on her tray. She poked at it for a few minutes and licked a little frosting off her fingers. Once I cut it into pieces like I do with all her food, then she went crazy! We had a great time celebrating even though she didn't know what the heck was going on.

Anyhow, we hope life finds you all well and happy. Merry Christmas!

Fall is in the air

Hello everyone,
We have had some fun these past few weeks. For Halloween, Mae was Pebbles Flintstone and we went as Fred and Wilma Flintstone. Mae had fun but she obviously didn't get what was going on. But she sure has loved playing in the leaves with her cousins and all the other days that I have been raking. We have been loving the great weather and are a little sad to see the cold come. But the changing seasons means Mae's birthday is coming up soon!

Dance DanceRevolution

Well tonight was our last night with Grandma and Grandpa Wood before their departure to the Singapore Mission. Mae pulled out all of the stops to show off one last time. Enjoy

The verdict is in !!!

People always ask us who we think Mae looks like more - Rob or Me. Neither of us could really tell because some days she looks like a Kingsford and other days, she looks like a Wood. I guess this is the reason - Mae is almost right in the middle. We would like to think that she has the best of both genes but who knows.

For anybody looking for a fun thing to do to waste time, go to www.myheritage.com and you can do the look-alike meter and see what celebrities you look most like. I know we've had a good waste of time on this rainy, Saturday evening.

The green toilet gets a face lift

We finally finished our bathroom this week! (Okay, Rob really did all the work) It is awesome and I love the green toilet even more now. Its nice to have two bathrooms again as well. I'm not sure that I would suggest having one bathroom in a house - I definitely think that having two bathrooms eliminates some frustrations. Anyway, enough of that. We are getting ready for my parents to leave on their mission. They leave for the MTC one week from today. I can't believe that it's almost here. We are surely going to miss them.

Family Pictures

On Sunday, we had the Wood family gathered for family pictures - I know what you're thinking - how awful! Usually, this is a painful event that takes forever and all you get in the end is a sore face from smiling for so long. However, this time, it was actually not bad. Even Mae wasn't a pill and stayed happy. Now, we'll just have to see if there is even one picture in the few hundred that were taken that have all 22 members of the family looking good and smiling for the camera. I won't get my hopes up yet but...maybe this is our year.

We finally caved in!

Well, for so long, we resisted the temptation to be like everyone else and get a blog. But hence, we have now caved in. I'm using the excuse that my parents are going on a mission for starting one finally. And also, it really is a great way to keep in touch and see fun photos of everyone.

Life for the Kingsford family is pretty routine right now. Mae is out of control and crawling everywhere! She even had her first tumble down the stairs last week - oops! Rob is busy working and remodeling our downstairs bathroom - for those of you who have seen it, don't worry, we've built the whole motif around the olive colored toilet and sink so they still live. We'll post pictures of the final product - if anyone cares to see (which you probably don't.)

Anyway, life is good and we hope all is well with the rest of you!