Dear Santa...

We finally made it to the mall to introduce Luke to Santa. We were definately more excited about it than Luke was, but he did great and we got a good picture. No crying or anything. We saw a lot of older kids crying, so it's probably still in our future, but the first meeting went well.


We also decorated our Christmas tree last weekend, so here are a few pictures of that as well. My sisters husband just came home from Iraq for the holidays, so it was a special day for everyone.




I'm really behind on Christmas shopping, but it will get done eventually so I am trying not to stress about it. Still need to get Christmas cards out, but it will get done...
Hope everyone's holidays are going well!
Love and miss you all!

Happy Belated Thanksgiving!

Ok - I'm only a week behind! I hope everyone had a fantastic day and got plenty of good food. We spent Thanksgiving day at Ralph and Elsie's house with Dan's family. Here's our first family Thanksgiving picture.

My parents stopped by in the morning and gave Luke a pilgrim hat. Here's a picture - too cute! Then they went to lunch with my sister who had to work on Thanksgiving. We all got together on Saturday to celebrate a late Turkey day (although we didn't have Turkey...)


A little too big!


We also had Luke's 4 month well child visit this week. He is almost 14 pounds now and 25 inches - I actually thought he weighed more. He's right in the 50th percentile for both height and weight still. He got another 3 vaccinations which is not fun at all. Poor guy just slept and ate for the last two days. Today he seems to be back to his old self - smiling at me when I get him up this morning and playing hard again. We got a jumparoo last week and it is a BIG hit in our house. He doesn't stay in for very long, but loves bouncing and playing with the toys.




We are getting very excited for Luke's first Christmas and I will be taking some Holiday pics soon.

Take care!