Christmas in Ohio!

Since we decided to spend the holidays at home, we wanted to visit with Chris' family before he deploys, so we flew up to Columbus the second weekend in December to celebrate Christmas. Elijah did pretty good on his first plane ride! He had a fit on the plane leaving Atlanta, but he was just tired. We got to Ohio early afternoon on Thursday and left on Sunday morning. We had a great time spending time with Dianne, John, Hope, Aubrey, Beth and Sean. We hated having to leave! Well, I have to admit, I was glad to get back to warmer weather! It snowed while we were there and it was 70 degrees in North Carolina!!!!

Everyone is doing great! Hope is due with baby number 2 within the next few weeks, so we look forward to that! And Sean and Beth are getting married in April! It's coming up so fast!

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Ok, so it's been another long while since I've updated this blog! But it's been pretty busy around here, so I'll start with Thanksgiving! We have decided that this year we were spending our holidays at our home in Jacksonville, NC. We have friends here that decided they were going to do the same thing, so we all decided to celebrate together! So off to the Parrish's we went, along with the Ryans, the Burgess's and the Ulmer's. There was a good crowd and no shortage of food! Everything was great and we left stuffed. Chris had his traditional turkey leg (no shortage of those either, we had three turkey's!!) and of course, tons of deserts!!

The next day (yes, Black Friday!!!) Brittney and I got up at 3:30 in the morning to hit the after Thanksgiving deals. Destiny joined us around 5. We went everywhere and were back home by noon. We had such a good time and I can't wait for next year!!!

Happy Birthday United States Marine Corps!!!

This past Monday (November 10), the Marine Corps celebrated their 233rd birthday. As usual, this day is met with lots of celebration for the Marines. It's also filled with lots of tradition. Chris and I attended our first Ball at Camp Lejeune and I was pleasantly surprised! We had it at the gym on base and it was decorated very nicely. The food was very good, we even had a carving station!!! I lucked out on my dress, since I got in online and it was made in China, so I can't complain too much. I think I looked pretty good! And of course, Chris look fabulous in his dress blues! With the exception of Elijah getting cranky and a diaper rash from hell at our friend's house, the day was perfect!!

Halloween 2008!

The week of Halloween was a busy one for us. We had a little get together the week before Halloween to celebrate with some friends. It was a costume party, and we had a lot of great costumes! Chris was a whoopie cushion and I was a doctor. We decided that Elijah would be a pumpkin. And what a cute pumpkin he was!!! He even went trick-or-treating for the first time. He refused to walk, so Chris had to carry him, but he seemed to enjoy it. He racked up on the candy! Of course, me and Chris got to eat most of it :) Always a good thing.

We have a walker!!! Sort of...

It's official!! Elijah FINALLY took a few steps on his own today!!!!! Yeah!!!!! But of course, he'd rather crawl and I don't think he can figure it out on his own yet, but he did it!!! He took one step to me and four steps to Chris. Please. I'm the one that was working with him and he takes more steps to daddy?!?!?!? What's up with that!! Oh well. Begger's can't be choosers I guess!

Finally getting settled!

Well, it's been a while, but things are finally starting to settle down. A lot has happened since I posted last, so I'll try to give a little synopsis! The weekend of July 12, we had our much anticipated LeMieux/Hay family reunion. It was a long time coming and we had a blast! Elijah decided that he could pull himself up on furniture. He had only recently started crawling, so he was getting that hang of that fast!

On August 1 we celebrated Elijah's first birthday. I still can't believe he's one already! We actually celebrated with a few parties. We had one in Virginia with my family and some of our friends, then we drove up to Ohio to celebrate with Chris' family and to hit his family reunion up there.

Once we got back from Ohio, I had to pack everything up and head down to North Carolina for good. So that leads me to now. We picked up the keys to our house on my birthday (September 15--my 30th!!! Chris and our friends even through me a surprise party!) and we got all of our stuff on Tuesday. And in true Marine Corps fashion, Chris was gone. So needless-to-say, moving by yourself isn't fun! But thank God my mom came down to help out. Good thing, since Elijah decided to come down with a nice case of croup.

Elijah is doing really well. He's finally over his croup. He got his first haircut!!! How freakin' cute is that! He weighs 24 pounds 13 oz and is 30 1/2 inches long. He is still not walking, but he cruises along the furniture like a champ and when you hold both of his hand he'll walk. But as soon as you let go, he'll stand for about 15 seconds or so and then he's down and taking off. Yeah, he's lazy!

So now we're trying to get the house in order. Not looking forward to that. We've only been in here two weeks and I've already lost my motivation!!! That's pretty sad. Oh well. I've attached a slide show with some random pictures. It's a little long, so bear with it!

Craziness

Yes, that's what life has been like for the past few weeks! I'm still in Virginia staying with mom and dad for a while and Chris has officially checked in with his new unit in North Carolina. Our name is on the list for housing (we're number 7) and hopefully it will only take the 1 to 3 months that they've told us. We'll see. So far we've been lucky that Chris has been able to stay with friends while we're waiting for our house. Our house in Virginia still has not been rented, but we're hopefull that it'll go soon. Once we get settled, we'll let everyone know our new information.

Anyway, Elijah has since turned 11 months old. Wow! It's amazing how fast the past 11 months have gone. Hard to believe that he'll be turning one in just a few more weeks. All of my pictures are still on our laptop, so I haven't been able to download anything. But don't worry, I'll get pictures out as soon as I can!

Elijah's first 4th of July went great. Mom and Dad had a BBQ for their neighbors and we just hung out. Elijah was in bed in time for the fireworks, and he slept through them all. What a good boy! Especially considering that they were right outside his bedroom window!

We're looking forward to the coming weekend because it's my family reunion. We haven't had one in quite some time, so it'll be good to see everyone. I'll post pictures of that too. Once I have some more exciting news to post, I'll do that as well!