Happy Birthday Mom!!!

(a.k.a. Becky/Nana)

We look forward to celebrating it with you tomorrow and we hope you have a wonderful day!

This is for You Aunt Brea

Aunt Brea bought Nadia this adorable outfit for Christmas so we wanted to post a photo for her to see. The cute, little snowman socks were from Nana.

Merry Christmas!

We spent Christmas Eve at Aunt Peggy and Uncle Dick's house. With a rapid growing family, the grandparents buy for the little ones and the adults get to enjoy a White Elephant gift exchange. We had such a wonderful time! It's always a treat when Nadia gets to play and hang out with her second cousins, as she loves following them around. The bathtub photo pretty much shows what they did all night. Looks like their recipe for happiness was a dark bathroom, flashlights and a few other toys since they were in there most of the night.

Christmas day festivities took place at our house. We woke up way too early (5:50 A.M.), watched Nadia open her gifts from Mommy and Daddy, Santa and out-of-town relatives. We then then set off for Mass (apparently Christmas day is the day to attend if you want a quiet, small crowd). Nadia passed out in the car on the way home but once we arrived home it was back to playtime again. Papaw and Nana then came over and we had our gift exchange. After a few hours of opening gifts and playing, Nadia finally took her nap while the rest of us had a delicious dinner.

Wow, this year was definitely a blast, thanks to Nadia. She would let out a big "Ooooooooo!" with every gift that she opened and even enjoyed helping us open our gifts. (We'll try to post a video by the weekend.) Well, after today, Nadia can clean the house with her vacuum, write her grocery list down on her easel, travel by hopping donkey or ride her radio flyer to the grocery store, fill up her shopping cart with plenty of food, and then prepare us a nice dinner in her new kitchen. Yep, sounds like Mommy can take a little break and let Nadia handle the chores for a few days.

A Love-Hate Relationship
This photo was taken because both Nadia and Eli looked so cute in their Christmas PJ's and house slippers this morning. Usually the two love each other but the last couple of days they have behaved like true siblings. It was bound to happen, I think the boyfriend-girlfriend relationship is now a thing of the past. Oh well, Nadia can use a brother with a little sister on the way.

Mundane Sledding

What a different story still photos paint.

Xtreme Sledding!!

Disclaimer: No one was harmed during the filming of this movie clip.

NEW ANNOUNCEMENT!

Nursery #2 has been painted-we'll post a photo once we have at least one piece of furniture for the baby. Anyway, we've chosen the wooden circles above to hang vertically on the wall without the ribbon. Okay, so here it goes...pay attention...we ordered the letters S-O-N-I-A. Yes, we have officially changed the baby's name from Reese to Sonia. We're not planning on changing the name again because the letters we've chosen are non-refundable and unless we can scramble the letters into a different name that we like, we're sticking with this name.