Christmas ...Backwards!

Sorry these are all backward time wise! :) You could start for the bottom, or not! Your choise! :)Merry Christmas!! Fern looking too cute talking to Grandma Christmas afternoon, yes we have a corded phone! It is even a rotary! It totally freaks out my kids friends! :)
We (many giver kind of gift) really surprised Riley, we made him open it last, we have not seen or hear too much from him since! :) He got an ipod...before his mom!!!

Our little present, with a bow on top!

Said present getting noisy!

Oh the wrapping paper!

This was her favorite, thanks Aunt Mary!

All ready Christmas eve!

Do you think we should get a nut cracker! :)

Our 4 beautiful babes in their Christmas jammies from Grandma!

Leili was happy to finally attack some presents! Yea for those jammies to open!

Leili "enjoying" our snow with mom (it was like 20 degrees, we did not last long! )!!

Mama's sweet snow baby! Oh she is just too cute!!

And that is the end of the FAST, disjointed post! Enjoy!!

7 More Days!

So sorry I have been so MIA! Life is happening even if we don't want it to, Leili is a handful but such a cute handful, and we are really trying to savor this Christmas season together as a family, everyday knowing even though it is a "trial" we are so blessed to have Dan this year! It will probably continue to be sparse for a bit! :) Here we are today with the tree that came home with us! It may look sunny and warm but don't let it fool you, it has been in the teens and now we are expecting a nor'easter starting tomorrow!
Leili loved sitting in the frozen grass! This was my little warm outfit when I was a baby, my mom made it! :)

And then Leili got distracted and ended up laying in the frozen grass!

This evening we pulled out the Christmas books, here is Riley reading The Pokey Little Puppy's First Christmas. My grandma J. use to read this to me when I was little.

Leili enjoyed The Velveteen Rabbit.

Fern is enjoying the nativity, we bought this Riley's first Christmas.

Jake hid from my camera, telling me to stop taking pictures. At least he choose a good book!

Leili woke up from her milk nap to a lighted tree, she loves it!!


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Now a few I have been meaning to put up! :)

Leili hanging around! I had put her in there to do something I could not with her and when I turned around to check on her she had found a way to get her arm and head out!

She is a dangerous girl these days!!

But oh so cute!

She is really getting around! :)

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I emailed Christmas cards this year so if you did not get one it means I do not have your email address, so email me!! :)

Merry Christmas!!

I Usually Don't...

Start my Christmas thinking/planning/doing until Dec. 1, just to be sure to give Thanksgiving it's due. But I have come to realize that I really should do a little pre-December planning so that I am ready. Take for instance that I forget about the advent calendar until like the 10th, bad. And our St. Nicholas festivities are usually thrown together a bit as I have forgotten/not prepared in advance. SOOOO... lets get started a little earlier! I have started a nice link box over there on the right with Christmas ideas. Let me know what you like and reply with any other links you enjoy!

Riley

Last night when he asked me to trim his nails he brought me the big clippers not the baby clippers. And he now prefers to take a shower, it is weird not to bathe him. How can it go by so fast!

My Quiet Book

For mom!

This Week!

My baby boy turned 6! How can it be! Yesterday was Jake's birthday, he says 6 is pretty good. Before bed we got out the photo album that has his first few months pictures in it. I just can't believe it!

It was also Grandpa M.'s birthday we surprised him with a video happy birthday call on skype. We got a big smile! :) We love you Grandpa!
Here is Yoda as the kids have dubbed her. They all love giving her a light saber now that she is so grabby and they think it is hysterical that she tries to eat it! :)


I captures a great Leili smile while nursing the other day, photography while nursing is a little like juggling jello. Trust me! :)

Look at our two purple princesses! Beautiful girls who look so very different from each other!

Dad, Daughters, and Cupcakes!