Happy Thanksgiving!

We have so much to be thankful for this year - a beautiful 6 MONTH OLD baby, our health, our wonderful families, a place to live, food to eat... we truly are blessed.

From our family to yours, may today be filled with love, close family and friends, and delicious food. Happy Thanksgiving!

Adelyn in Thanksgiving garb, a gift from Auntie Mikaela. Her shirt says "Thankful for Mommy" :)
She says Happy Thanksgiving!

Too cute for school.

6 months old.

Can you believe it?

Adelyn is 6 months old today. It just shocks us how quickly time has gone by. She is half of a year old. HALF A YEAR! What?!?!

Stayed tuned for a letter to her from us. It will be posted when we get back from visiting Derek's parents and sister in Florida for the holidays. :)

Hope everyone has a happy Thanksgiving, and enjoy your turkey!

Eww.

This morning I put Addy down on a mat in the living room and went into the kitchen to get breakfast. When I looked back over, she had rolled over to the rocking chair (no big surprise there), and had grabbed one of Nova's cat toys and was CHEWING on it. The same part of the toy that Nova chews on. Blagh. Yuck. Ew. Sick. I was grossed out. Addy didn't seem to mind, I guess it was seasoned just right for her.

Adelyn has been getting really good at eating rice cereal now! She loves the apple and rice flavored cereal, and can put away a decent amount. As soon as I raise the spoon from the bowl, she opens her mouth expectantly, like "Would you hurry it up, Mother? I've got things I need to play with, stuff I need to chew on. C'mon, let's speed this up."

Pics from our walk yesterday. We stopped by the pool for a bit and I showed Addy the waterfall. She liked it.

Just chilling by the pool. Typical thing to do in November, right?

I'm like a little doggy, putting socks in my mouth.

Zivney Energy

I'd like to take a moment to brag about my husband :) As I mentioned earlier, Derek started his own oil production company, Zivney Energy. He has wanted to own his own oil wells for ages... since he was a little boy! A couple weeks ago, he bought an oil lease and last week he put up "Zivney Energy" signs so everyone knows who the lease belongs to! :) I'm just so proud of him for reaching his life-long goal! Here are a few pics to show you the signs. They look great! Thanks to my sister Mikaela for making the awesome logo.

Welcome to the entry gate of Zivney Energy's first oil lease.

Sign on the tank battery.

The proud owner of his first oil well!

Yippee hurray!

I defended my Master's thesis today and passed! :) Whew!!!! What a great feeling. Now I just need to make a few final revisions to the thesis before I'm completely finished with it.

Ahhhh, I will sleep well tonight.

And the sleep verdict?

All that sleep on Wednesday night must have been a fluke...
::yawn::

Sleep, glorious sleep!

Adelyn slept from....

7pm until 5:15am!!!!!

Ahhh, it was so nice. Mind you, I didn't go to bed until 10:00pm. And I woke up at 3am with a headache and expecting Addy to be hungry, but I was happily dissapointed. She woke up at 5:15am, I fed her, and then we went back to sleep until 8:30am. :) I'm so proud of her! I can only hope that she will do it again tonight and that it wasn't just a fluke.

Other news: she sits up almost all by herself. She's still a bit wobbly and if she leans over to the side, she wipes out, but she's working on her balance. She's also tucking her little knees under her body more often, practicing for the big lunge into crawling.