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hellobridgett hellobridgett tuesday january 3 2012 2011 a year in review i love to take this time of year to look back and evaluate the past year as well as make new goals for the coming year here is a list in no particular order of some of the events that have happened in 2011 i might share some of my goals later we ll see miss fifi has learned lots of words she now says hi mom ruff sometimes it s oof moo all animals according to her say ruff or moo da ot hot out and ut ut uh oh rory worked really hard in school he received and associate s degree in pre electrical engineering now he is looking forward to attending the university of utah to finish his bachelor s degree in electrical engineering miss fifi has also learned a lot of signs she knows all done milk i love you it looks like something else change for diaper change book and please she rubs her belly for that so funny she also started folding her arms for prayers and pointing at her mouth when she s hungry i didn t teach her that one but i ll take it in true jones form we re moving again oh the stress to be had miss fifi turned one rory quit his job so we can move i learned to enjoy homemaking more i always knew that i wanted to stay home when i had kids but i didn t know it would be as rewarding i know it isn t for everyone but it s for me i knit a bunch with my spare time here are photos of some more things i knit and crochet i did the red blanket headband with the crochet red flower diaper cover and the crochet booties isn t piper adorable another thing i like to do is look back at our finances from the past year this year was well let s say this year was modest that s a nice spin between me staying home to be with miss fifi and rory working part time to go to school we had to make some sacrifices and i wouldn t have changed a thing i consider us very blessed that we were in the financial position we were in when this year began one thing that i am proud of is that at one point during the year we had a fully funded emergency fund it lasted about a month before we had an emergency and had to dip into it but still i feel like we did a pretty good job this year call it luck call it blessings call us the recipients of wonderfully charitable acts all in all i d say we had a pretty good year this year had it s stresses and un fun days but looking back i m so grateful for how 2011 turned out i m also looking forward to bigger and better things that 2012 may have to offer i wish everyone a happy new year posted by hellobridgett at 10 47 pm 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels fifi knitting money mr jones totally random sunday december 25 2011 merry christmas everyone we did this a couple of years ago to a different song and we had a few requests to do it again so here you go and because miss fifi doesn t make an appearance in the video christmas morning 2010 i hope you christmas time is less stressful than ours posted by hellobridgett at 12 16 am 5 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels fifi mr jones totally random tuesday december 13 2011 my gradmother s dress 70 years ago today my grandmother and granddad were married times were uncertain being that they were the days immediately following the attack on pearl harbor but my grandmother and granddad decided to follow through with their plans he had been working as a welder for a pipeline company in california she would travel by bus to meet him in reno they would be married by the justice of the peace followed by a dinner with my granddad s boss and boss wife if i m not mistaken it was a simple and sweet wedding followed by many years of happiness and love weren t they a good looking couple my grandmother wore a dress she made with the help of her mother on the sewing machine that sits in my parent s home my mom recently found the dress among some boxes photographs she has been scanning considering the fact that it is 70 years old and made of wool it has held up fairly well my mom wanted me to wear it like out while i was afraid of handling the dress too much i decided to wear the dress once for my mom if i weren t afraid of something happening to this heirloom i would definitely wear it like out pin it isn t it a beautiful dress hair and makeup by so very fabulous go like it photos by rory jones under my indecisive yet picky direction what i m listening to christmas style artist vince guaraldi album a charlie brown christmas this is probably my favorite christmas album i never really listened to it until rory introduced it to me after we were married but now i can t really get into the christmas spirit until i listen to it funny how that worked out it is definitely a much needed break from some of the pop y mariah carey esque christmas music you hear at the mall my favorites are christmas time is here instrumental and guaraldi s renditions of the christmas song and what child is this check it out posted by hellobridgett at 12 03 am 8 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels photography totally random what i m listening to tuesday december 6 2011 miss fifi s blanket i forgot to share photos of the blanket i made for miss fifi i finished it long before her birthday but i spaced sharing them with you i got the pattern here but i modified it to make it bigger it measures 56 x 36 inches which is the perfect size for her crib i also had some left over yarn so i made a couple of other things for her the pattern for the leggings here they are really simple but the turned out pretty cute for the hat i got the pattern for the celtic cables i used for the sides here then i made up the rest not too bad for improvising right miss fifi loves this hat she will bring the hat to me so that i can put it on her about 5 times a day i m so glad she likes it what i m listening to group the lower lights album come let us adore him we got a surprise at our door last night a friend dropped this by for christmas what a great way to start the christmas season it is calming and sweet i highly recommend it the instrumental version of o little town of bethlehem is probably my favorite of the album check it out posted by hellobridgett at 12 38 pm 7 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels fifi knitting totally random what i m listening to tuesday november 29 2011 body image revisited first of all thanks for the response my readers have wise words some of those words i was going to share with you other thoughts are new so if you read the comment from my last post i hope this isn t redundant second like i said in my last post i don t want to sound preachy if you have different parenting philosophies share them also remember that i ve only been a parent for a year that hardly makes me an expert third most of these ideas won t make much of a difference to my 1 year old but if i think about these things long before she gets into jr high we hopefully won t have a dilemma on our hands so without further adieu here are a few of the ideas i ve come up with and read about giving my daughter a healthy body image 1 lead by example if i spend a lot of time in front of a mirror every day or talk a lot about how i wish i had the same body i had before miss fifi was thought of what would that say to my daughter it might give her the impression that looks are pretty important if i spend a lot of time telling my daughter how pretty she is and very little time talking to her about things that she has learned she might possibly think that what she looks like is more important than her knowledge instead live what you want to teach your children if you don t want your daughter to hate her rear end don t be self conscious about yours if you want your daughter to love learning love learning yourself for example 2 focus on health instead of counting calories talk about what healthy food does for our bodies get in the habit now to eat healthier meals this is difficult but over the last couple years rory and i have slowly changed some of our behaviors in full disclosure we ve got a long way to go if my daughter understands why eating good food is necessary hopefully she will have a healthy relationship with food i e not look to it for comfort or even see it as an obstacle 3 compliment them on their behavior intellect and accomplishments more than their looks this is one thing i learned and whole heartedly believe from my mother s example a few years ago my sister pointed out that my mom didn t often compliment us on our looks instead she made sure to compliment us on how smart we were or our talents or when we were kind when asked about that my mother said something along the lines of well i always knew my babies were the cutest but i didn t think they needed to know that this is one thing that really helped me i feel that i got enough of a sense of the importance in the world s view of looking beautiful outside of the home i am so grateful that it wasn t reinforced at home in cinderella ate my daughter by peggy orenstein referenced in my last post she talked to catherine steiner adair the director of eating disorders education and prevention at the klarman eating distorders center at mclean hospital in massachusetts about this catherine said well you re beautiful is not something you want to say over and over to your daughter because it s not something that you want her to think is so important that said there are times when it is important to say it when she s messy or sweaty when she s not dressed up so that she gets a sense that there is something naturally beautiful about her as a person and it s also important to connect beauty and love to say i love you so much everything about you is beautiful to me you are beautiful to me i thought this was interesting orenstein also wrote about doing research for a previous book by interviewing eighth grade girls she said that she noticed that she would greet them by commenting on some aspect of their appearance their earrings a new shirt their hairstyles she decided to stop she would ask them how a play rehearsal was going or what they were reading in english class she said it felt surprisingly forced physical compliments grease the conversational wheels among women and girls i decided to do this myself asking my niece about the sports she is involved in and my five year old primary girls about school i have to admit it is more difficult i m sure i m not making some profound difference in these girls lives but for my own benefit i want to get into this habit as cali mentioned as long as we are aware and conscious of these things rory and i will probably not have to be overly concerned and obsess about these issues but i feel that the earlier we have this discussion the less complicated things will have to be your thoughts i ll try not to make my posts so long winded in the future thanks for sticking with me on the last few posts what i m listening to artist the black keys album attack release i m not sure if i ve talked about the black keys before but they are worth repeating if i did i should start keeping a list of what albums i talk about attack release made it s debut in 2008 my favorite song is probably i got mine which was number 23 on rolling stone s list of 100 best songs of 2008 the whole album is worth listening to the black keys are releasing their seventh studio album on december 6th called el camino this would be an awesome christmas gift hint hint their first officially release single is lonely boy listen to it you won t regret it i m looking forward to what this album has to offer posted by hellobridgett at 11 49 am 6 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels deep thoughts fifi totally random what i m listening to older posts home subscribe to posts atom me hellobridgett i m bridgett i m twenty three years old i like to eat ice cream i m scared of touching raw meat i ve been married for three years to my marvelously sweet husband rory after our first date when we exclusively talked about awesome music he knew it was a done deal he just had to finish convincing me he loves to make me laugh and has successfully turned me into a movie snob we have lots of fun with our beautiful baby girl her nickname for privacy purposes is miss fifi cause she s fancy she is the sweetest baby in the world seriously she d win in a contest i hope you enjoy my blog view my complete profile picture window theme theme images by airyelf powered by blogger