Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Here are some pictures, in no particular order from our holidays. We had a Merry Christmas with Jake's family and a Happy New Year with mine! It was my first Christmas away from home and Jake's family made it very special and we had a great time. Thanks Curt and Colleen for such a fun and memorable Christmas!

(Sorry for the random order of pictures, I couldn't get them to line up!)

Poor Ethan had to get surgery on his arm so he couldn't hold Bridget much, but she occasionally would just lay on him.

When we got to Colorado, they did another "Christmas morning" for the 3 of us..so fun!

Bridge has a great time with her cousin Soren

Here's Jake reading her first note from Santa

The Sorensen Christmas party

The boys matched too...cute? ; )

Happy Late Halloween!

She was trying to attack me



Sorry about the low cut shirt ; )

This is why I had a girl...someone to share my fingernail polish with!

We got to go to Grandma and Grandpa Sorensen's and Davin and Marlie shared their toys!

This is what she does after her nap...eats her crib!

So here's my excuse for being a week late on these pictures...the flu attacked us! Jake and I both got the flu and Bridget had to get shots and her first 2 teeth finally popped up! Needless to say, there was lots of crying, whining, and late nights in the Sorensen household, and not just from Jake! (Was that funny? I was trying to be funny. ; )) But we're all getting better and looking forward to a new week. Anyway...Halloween was lots of fun! We hung out with some friends and ate some yummy food! Thanks Travis and Rachel! Bridget was Tinkerbell and it was my first year to try my hand at a homemade costume. My mom is the best at this...and I am not! She's very good at sewing and very creative, but after being in Interior Design school for these past few years, I have gotten pretty good with a hot glue gun! So here's some pictures from Halloween and the past few weeks!

Just to hold my parents over!

So blogging has gotten much more difficult now that Bridget is very mobile! When she wants to she'll crawl and other times she scoots. Right now she is sitting on my feet eating them and whining. She really doesn't like it when I do anything not involving her..little does she know that right now it's still all about her! Even though life is crazy having a baby, it's more fun than I ever imagined. It's so neat to see her learn and grow. I'm so grateful for my family and the chance I have to be a mom! Well, right now I'm smelling something not too pleasant so I guess it's time to go change a diaper!

This is her favorite animal...Douglas Bubble Trousers...
Ethan and Meredith named him. We call him Doug for short!

I don't know if this video is working, but here's why

she won't laugh for me...I have this as competition!

A Few Fun Days!

We've had a fun week so far despite the fact that Bridget has her first cold. Of course Jake and I are freaking out over a silly stuffy nose and a fever but what can ya do, we're new at this. We thought she might be teething but this is for sure a cold..poor girl. Monday, my friend Michelle came over and brought her daughter Bentley to play with Bridget. (Michelle I'm so sorry if Bentley gets sick!) It was fun to watch the girls because they actually acknowledged each other and seemed to be enjoying themselves. Their clothes even matched! Then Tuesday we got to go to the zoo with our friend Lois. It got pretty stormy but we had a good time.

Here's the baby elephant..Bridget was big when
she was born but at least she wasn't 251 lbs!


I love turtles!

The monkey and Bridget just stared at each

other

Please Smile! Please!

So we decided it was probably time to get Bridgee's pictures taken again! And for any of you who have tried to take a picture of her, you know that she knows exactly when to stop smiling...right as you're taking the picture. So we were lucky to get a few of her showing those gums! She really is a happy baby, just not in front of the camera.

Why does she look afraid of her parents?

The flower didn't quite make it to the front of her

head for these pictures

Daddy's Girl

Here's a little video of Jake and Bridgee playing...clearly he is more fun than me because he can always get her to laugh and I only have gotten a "half laugh" out of her. I was pretty suprised at how happy she was though because she got her 4 month shots today. So sad! She did great though, weighing in at 15.9 lbs! We love our little chunk! So enjoy the movie and ignore me talking on the phone in the background!

Just too busy!

I can't believe how long it's been since I've posted a blog! We've been quite busy! We moved to Orem into a bigger apartment, thank goodness, I went home to Colorado for 2 weeks, got sick, my little brother and sister came for a week while Jake went backpacking, and now finally I have some time to unpack and blog of course! Colorado was a blast..we even had a little tornado while I was there! Our new apartment is so fun, Bridget has her own room even though she doesn't sleep in there. I'm having a hard time letting her be so far away..across the hall! We even have a pool here! We're so grateful for all the space.

Jake just started his student seminary teaching at American Fork High School and he is loving it. He says he has great students and he's learning alot. I'm so proud of him and excited to see what happens with all this!

Here is the "fort" we build for Bridget when we
go swimming and she needs a break. Looks rather
comfortable don't ya think? I wish I looked that
cute in a bikini!

This is her giraffe my parents bought for her...

she loves to cuddle with him and he puts

her right to sleep! I suggest all moms get cute giraffes

for their babies!