Help!

I don't know what to do!! Valerie is WAY grown out of her infant car seat and it is WAY past time for us to get her a new one. I decided I for sure want to get one that is convertable so it is the last car seat I will need to buy for her. I try to be a very frugal person and don't want to spend a million dollars on it either. I have been looking and looking online and reading review after review. I think reading reviews makes the decision harder instead of easier! I will read one review and the person LOVES the car seat so much that they are running out tomorrow to buy another one for their other kid...The very next review the person is saying what a huge waste of time and money the car seat is and they wouldn't reccomend it to their worst enemy!! AHHHHH!! What do I do!?!?!

I really like the one pictured above, but it is only available at babiesrus.com so I can't even price shop for a good deal. I want to get a good seat and get a good deal on it. Help me out by letting me know about your car seat expirence...do you like your car seat? Did you get a good deal? Did you pay a lot for it, and love it so much that you don't care? Is there something you know now about car seats that you wish you would have known before purchasing yours? How do I find a car seat that will be both safe and comfortable??

Thanks for your help!!

Family Pictures

I forgot to post these family pictures. I didn't post them when we got them taken because we were sending them out in our Christmas cards. Brandon's little brother is the photographer in the family, he took these and I think he did a Fabulous job (he even photoshoped some of my fat rolls out!) so if anyone needs a good photographer I can get you his number!!

We just barely took our tree down on Saturday because I wanted to get some pictures of Valerie in her pretty red dress next to the tree and it took me forever to get around to doing it. Well she found a candy cane that she would not give up and this is what I got:

*disclaimer: I do not in any way claim to be a great...or even good photographer!

So the one picture that would have turned out good...and without the candy cane was blurry because it focused on the tree!

The next few pictures are just random fun pictures taken the last couple of weeks.

I guess we should have known better than to put the crib right next to the hanging diapers!

Don't bug me...I'm texting!!

So much for that idea!

Well we are no longer buying the house in West Valley that I posted pictures of so I had to delete the post so it didn't make me sad anymore. We are looking at our options at this point and feel we need to focus on selling our house first and then figure out where to go from there. We are looking into maybe building a home, my husband being the fabulous home designer that he is and all. It has always been his dream to live in a house that he designed, we just didn't know it was possible this early in life for it to come true! We know that the Lord has a plan for us and if we follow him everything will work out just fine!

Christmas

I am a big blog slacker! I had my husband home for the last week and a half so I neglected my blog in order to spend time with him. It was fun having him home and now I am kinda going through withdrawals! I don't know what to do with myself.

Christmas Eve we spent with Brandon's family and Christmas day we spent with mine. I have a lot of pictures and I will try not to comment on all of them because this could turn into the biggest post ever if I do.

Olsen Family minus 1

Waking Valerie up on Christmas morning...can you just see the excitement!?!


If you know me at all you know I am a HUGE BYU fan...so of course Brandon's family got a huge kick out of watching me open this gag gift on Christmas Eve!! I say gag gift because I think I literally did gag!

We have a Porter family tradition of eating blueberry muffins and bacon gravy. I look forward to it every year! Don't knock it till ya try it! This is Valerie's first 4 generation picture with Gramps.

Ice skating at the Olympic Oval. We couldn't keep Valerie off the ice, she loved it!