Christmas Break/Addy's First Christmas & Addy's Baby Blessing

A little out of order...

Baby's first Christmas was also a success!!! We flew back home to Iowa (another first for baby-she even got her "wings") to celebrate with the immediate Inman's and Olsen's and to meet Great Grandma Dolores and Great Great Great Aunt Thelma. She of course was spoiled by her grandparents and got lots of cuddle time with grandmas, grandpas, aunts and uncles as well as great aunts and uncles!!! Uncle Andy and Aunt Emily entertained Addyson with a fun photo shoot, those photos still to come, and Uncle Jamie and Aunt Amber got some practice in as they are expecting a little girl in March!

Although we kept Addy on her "Utah sleep schedule" she still had a habit of waking up at the wee hours of the night and morning and sometimes both so it was nice to have both grandmas around to take over so mom and dad (Chris and I) could nap and/or sleep in!!!

On December 26th Addyson was blessed by her father as we visited our home branch. She wore the beautiful dress made by her Great Grandma Verla Smith and two beautiful bracelets given to her by each Grandmother. We love our family and are so very blessed to have had a safe and enjoyable trip, having had the opportunity to spend lots of valuable time with both sides!

I'd have to say some of the biggest excitement happened just as we got back to Utah. We were escorted from the airport to Chris's Aunt and Uncles house in Salt Lake by a fancy taxi service, after unloading our luggage and finding our car keys we started the car, hooked Addy's car seat into the base and Chris and I began to uncover our snow buried car. While clearing off the car and trying to open each frozen door, the car locked for no apparent reason. The keys were in the ignition, the car running and not a single lock was touched, however...ADDYSON WAS LOCKED IN THE CAR and Chris and I were stuck outside in the freezing weather. (it was nearly 9:00 at night) Thank goodness for internet on our phones, I googled a locksmith (we look back and regret not having just called the police) and we called to have them come help us out. As we waited for the locksmith to get to us on his list of stops to make, Addyson was inside the car, carseat cover on, screaming at the top of her lungs. I was crying, Chris was making phone calls, and all we could do was wait. There were moments that I couldn't hear Addy crying....which made me nervous...so I'd pound on the window hoping to keep her "alive" of COURSE I was over-reacting, afterall I'm a new mom and this was the worst thing I'd done in her life yet!!!! When the locksmith finally reached us after what seemed like an eternity (it was really just shy of 30 minutes) he got the car unlocked and I sprinted to the door and threw open the carseat cover only to find a sleeping baby. She had cried herself to sleep I'm sure, but that didn't stop me from getting her promptly out of the carseat to hold her in my arms. It was then that I realized she had had a blowout ontop of having sweated quite a bit from being nice and toasty warm inside the car and under the cover! In the backseat of the car I changed her stinky diaper and put her in her jammies and then being quite physically and emotionally drained, we FINALLY headed home! People keep telling me, "you'll look back on that and laugh some day" and honestly....I'm still having a tough time believing that!