Happy Birthday Sheila

We want to wish She-She a HAPPY, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Emma's First Christmas

Well our first Christmas with Emma was wonderful. We had so much fun with her. It all started on Christmas Eve in Covington with Grandma and Grandpa Lane. They spoiled her with great gifts and lots of love. One of her gifts was a refinished chair that belonged to her daddy when he was a kid. I think that the chair was her best gift from them.

Christmas morning came very soon for Rob and I. We got home from Covington a little before 10 pm. Got Emma to bed and then the work of Santa began. Emma slept in until 6:30 and the fun began again. Santa was very good to Emma. Luckily Santa gifts were not wrapped so she could tear right into the playing. Opening Mommy and Daddy gifts was a lot of fun for her-the paper was the hit.

Later Christmas Day we headed to Nana and Goddy's house. Once again Emma had many gifts to open. Aunt Beth, Uncle Bernie, Anna-Grace, Aunt Meme, Uncle Brian, Nate and Matty came home. It was wonderful for us all to be together on Christmas Day. That has not happened for a couple of years.

On Friday we went to Aunt Susan, Uncle Scott, Ashley, Amanda, and Will's house for dinner and Christmas. It was nice having the whole family together. The food was great and the kids had a ball.

All in all our Christmas this year was memorable. Rob and I are so thankful for Emma and our family. We hope your family had a blessed and happy Christmas like us.

Finally Ready for Christmas!

Rob and I finished wrapping the last gifts at 11 o'clock this evening only because today we finally finished with the shopping. If any of you know me this is very much not me to be working on buying and wrapping this close to Christmas. We are usually done by the second week of December. We have decided to do much better next year.

All in all we are ready to have our first Christmas with Emma. It will be memorable and very special to the both of us. We are truly blessed. This Christmas will be even more special because we will get to celebrate Christmas on Christmas day with both of my sisters, my brother in-laws, my nephews and neice. Nana and Goddy are very excited too. Tomorrow we travel to Covington to have Christmas with Grandma and Grandpa Lane. They too are very excited!

Rob, Emma and I want to wish all our family and friends a very Merry Christmas. Check back in in a couple of days to see what Emma got from family and Santa.

Where are all the presents?

Sitting on Santa's lap in the mall

MERRY CHRISTMAS

Happy Birthday Anna-Grace

On Dec. 13th we celebrated Anna-Grace's birthday. She turned two on Dec. 1. We went to Chucky Cheese and had a great time. Earlier that day Rob, Emma and I went to a Christmas party with the Ray's. This was Emma's first time sitting on Santa's lap. As you can see she really liked him.

Happy Birthday Anna-Grace

Having Fun at a Holiday Party

Oh, Christmas Tree!

We put up our Christmas tree and Emma loved it! Hopefully it will stay up intact with all the ornaments on it.

We Elved Ourselves!

Every year Office Max offers a fun little activity for the holiday season, so we decided to Elf our family. Rob and I did this last year and we couldn't resist doing it again with Emma included. We welcome your comments and funny remarks because you have to be able to laugh at yourself. I think we look cute. Click below to see our elf video.
Happy Holidays!

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Look at me, I'm standing!!!!

We had heard from our babysitter Esther that Emma had held onto her coffee table and stood up a few times, but we had not seen it ourselves. Imagine mommy's surprise when she went into Emma's room to get her out of the crib, and she was standing up holding the rail!! Mommy grabbed the camera and camcorder and was able to get some video of her standing, looks like we have to lower the crib mattress now!!!