New Year, New Beginnings

Happy New Year everyone! We had a wonderful holiday season with Jane's first Christmas (Santa was kind), a rocking New Year's Eve, and are now on to keeping New Year's Resolutions. blah. Dang diet and exrcise. Trent has started his internship at the Hospital in the Surgical ICU and is so far really enjoying it. We were sad that he had to leave the PACU, the unit he has worked at for over 3 years, but change is good and he is learning new things. Jane has decided she no longer wants to sleep. This is truely unfortunate because Trent and I still very much would like to sleep. Turns out that we need to have her on a schedule (I fight schedules myself so I'm not sure how I'm supposed to enforce it for someone else). We have tried getting her to nap and certain times, eat at certain times, and she now has a bedtime. We kind of feel like strick parents, but apparently it is good for her, so that's all that matters. She still is without teeth, but is learning new things every day. We hope to have her crawling before long. She is making some promising efforts. :) And I have decided to take a few community classes: Beginning Italian and Self Defense. I'm super excited, if for nothing else, to just get out of the house a few times a week! Hooray!

Santa! I know him!! I know him!!!!!

We went to the 2nd annual Bassett family Christmas party this past weekend. Jane had fun playing with all of her cousins and got to meet the big man himself. . . SANTA!!!! He even brought her an early Christmas present--a baby cell phone (yeah, we're in trouble). She didn't cry the first time, but the second time seh sat on his lap she started to get uneasy and by the time we set her there for a third time, she had had enough. We are so excited for Christmas and for Santa to come. Holidays are so much more fun now that Jane is in our family!

Sledding

Here is Jane's first time sledding. . . .It was a bit chilly and windy but she seemed to like going down the hill.

Jane and her BFF

Jane and her cousin Addy are the best of friends! Jane just thinks that anything Addy does is the greatest thing ever. Here's a clip of them playing the other day. . .

Laughing All the Way. . .

Here's a clip of Trent getting Jane to laugh.

A Very Festive Weekend

This past weekend we had some very festive activities. On Friday night we went with some families in our ward down to Temple Square to see the lights. We rode TRAX from the U downtown. It was Jane's very first time on the trains. She was such a good passenger! The lights were beautiful and there was definity the feeling of Christmas.

The next morning we woke up to snow!!!! A Christmas miracle for sure! It started slow and then picked up and by the time the sun had come up, we had a few inches!!! My parents came down and had breakfast and then we headed up to Heber to find a Christmas tree. We had fun looking at all the trees and the beautiful new snow. Jane was all bundled up and loved looking all around. When we got the tree bakc to the apartment, it was a bit too tall so Trent and my dad had to cut a little off the top and bottom to get it to fit.

Sunday night we were able to decorate our tree. Our house has a total of 800 little twinkle lights up so far. . .with maybe 200 more to come. We love the holiday season and have had a wonderful weekend wallowing in it!

Jane is 6 months old now! She can roll and sit up and loves to eat her rice cereal. We tried feeding her pears and squash. . .she didn't like that so much. :) We'll work on it. She got a "big girl" chair so she sits at the table with us now, which is nice.