Zach loves to jump in his Jolly Jumper while I do my thing on the treadmill. This time, however, it was just too exhausting! He fell asleep on the tray as I ran. It was so cute! He has started to spin himself around alot in his jolly jumper. Maybe that contributed to his fatigue. He just got too dizzy. I will have to post a video of that soon. Head bobbing, eyes rolling . . . it is hilarious!
Yeah for selling used stuff on the internet! I got two great deals this week from websites where people sell their old stuff. Luckily up here in Edmonton, people only have a few kids and buy really nice stuff for them, so I can benefit from their hand-me-downs! :) We finally got Zach a crib this week and I absolutely love it! He has just been in the pack and play Graco crib thing. Anyway, it is a solid crib. I love buying used luxury!
I also found this nice glider rocker on the same website. It still looks brand new! It is really nice to rock in, since Zach STILL doesn't sleep through the night. This was the first day I put Zach in a button up shirt and tie for church. He looked so manly! :) Also, I chopped my hair...again! It seems there comes a length where I feel it is just starting to look blah, and then I chop it. I miss my little ponytail, especially when I run, but it is pretty easy to do this way, and kinda fun. While it was getting cut I commented that I felt older. Afterward, the lady told me she thought it made me look younger. I asked her how old she thought I was when I came in and she said 28-32!!!! What! I told her it was a good thing I got this haircut then, because I am only 23! AHHHH!
Here is a straight on view. I just couldn't decide which to post so I though, well, just post 'em both!
This is a weird post I know, I knew that when I took this picture! Something crazy happened though. We only cracked 5 eggs! I think we may have a dozen eggs of twins! It was so weird after the first one, then we saw the second and were amazed. By the third we expected it to be twins, and by the fifth it was just plain spooky! We will report on the other seven eggs. We assume we just got a great deal!
Zach was so good on the airplane. Luckily both flights were pretty empty so we had our own row! (I did kind of miss nursing Zach while smashed between an overweight smelly man and a cranky woman though! There will be other flights.)
Zach's first adventure in CA was a nice dip in the "warm tub." He was so relaxed he fell asleep right on me! That doesn't happen very often.
Later Justin joined us down there and we all went to Balboa Island. That is where my parents met. Justin got an honorary Balboa Ferry t shirt to commemorate this special day. We went on a little harbor cruise (up here in canada it is a harbour) where they showed us all the multi-million dollar houses and yachts and who owned them. We also went out to the ocean and saw some sea lions on a bouy. It was fun.
Here is a classic ocean picture. That is a boat, a pelican, and the buoy with all of the lazy sea lions basking in the sun on it. 
Here was our beatiful tree. I loved it because we put it up on a table making it harder for Zach to reach!
Here is us at Magic Mountain. Justin had never been on these Big Kid rides before. He's been to Disneyland and all, but this isn't Disneyland! I am just happy he didn't throw up on me and I didn't wet my pants! Wow! They were a lot more intense than I remember, but we had a blast. We went with friends from Edmonton that were down visiting. We did baby swap. Both Zach's loved watching the rollercoasters ZOOOOM by. I am pretty sure they were the only babies there all day.
Zachary the Red-nosed baby!
Okay, so he's not a newborn anymore. Maybe I will have a Christmas baby someday.
After opening his stocking. Give me more! 
Zach got to be baby Jesus in the cousin Navity program. He was great! Just relaxing there with his cookie! I am sure one of the wisemen brought teething biscuits!
That night we loaded up a decorated trailer and went caroling through a nearby neighborhood. It was great!
Here are Grammy and Papa with all 18 grandkids! There is one on the way too. (No, I am not pregnant, my sister-in-law is with their 7th child!)
And here is Mom and Dad with ALL of their posterity. This is as fancy of a family picture we can get with all of these kids! I love it.
Here we are saying goodbye to Nanny, my dad's mom. Zach loves her wheelchair.
Here we are bright and early on New Year's day. We stayed up until 12:30 to ring in the New Year, slept until 3:45 AM and then went to the airport to catch our plane that left at 6:50. I promise I am not hung over and there is no alcohol in that orange juice. I was just extremely exhausted. Apparently so was Zach.
And here is the lovely view out of my window as we were landing in Edmonton. Yuck. -13 C with a windchill factor of -110 I am sure. It was awful. With that said, I really am happy to be home. I just wish it wasn't so cold. Only 4 months until spring...hopefully! 
To finish off the day we walked around the island and went to the Boat Parade. There were very creatively decorated houses and boats. It was fun.
