Haircuts

Griffin and Sophia both had their first professional haircut last Monday at Jack & Jill's in Tumwater.  I was lucky to have Deniece & Marisa there since it was a holiday.  Grandma treated and Aunt Risa took ADORABLE pictures!  Check out the album on Kodak.  Here are a few of my favorites.

Aaahhh....

I don't remember the last time I had this feeling...  Kyle took both kiddies to watch football over at his parents house for the day and the house is silent.  Sure we have quiet times with the kids here - but never silence.  There's always a baby monitor at least humming in my ear.  And sure Kyle has taken both kids before and given me some free time, but my mind is usually still buzzing because I'm thinking about nursing or napping.  But I'm done nursing, and Griffin is doing very well falling alseep on his own for naps.  So I don't even have a worry in my mind.

It's almost eerie.

We're Expecting....

Our first Godchild, that is!  Kyle and I are honored that Kim & Zach asked us to be Abby's Godparents.  We can't wait to see her next weekend!

There's a Big Boy!

Griffin is already 9 months old and just the cutest thing on Earth.  He can now crawl backwards all over the living room, and stand up hanging on to something - but sometimes he forgets he standing and just lets go and...  Timber!...

Baby Kennedy

Earlier this month we drove down to Beaverton, OR and visited our friends Shawn & Tressa and finally got meet their new baby girl, Kennedy.  Kennedy was about 5 weeks old in these pictures.  It was a fun day - we hope to get down for another visit soon!

First Tooth

Two teeth, actually!  Griffin cut his bottom two teeth last Tuesday, December 29th.   He was a little fussy for a couple days and up quite a bit for about three or four nights.  But now all is well and I was finally able to get a few pictures of them.  His tongue is so busy all the time I can't ever get a shot of his teeth!

Click on the pictures to enlarge for a better view.

On the 12th Day of Christmas...

Christmas morning...  Does it get any better?!

Christmas afternoon was spent with the Husseys.  Good times and lots of gifts there, too.

I hope everyone else had such a wonderful Christmas!  Check my photo albums for more pictures.

Now it's time to get all of our new stuff organized...

On the 11th Day of Christmas...

Christmas Eve Day my mom, dad, brother & his family come over.  It's fun and the kids love it.  I didn't take any pictures, though, just video!  My mom stayed to go with us to church, but before we left she wanted to try the little apron and chef's hat on Griffin that she got him.  Is he cute or what!?

Then I think she tried to turn him into Pope JPII

After church Sophia set out the milk and cookies for Santa, and after he came he left her a note!

And he left lots of presents!

On the 10th Day of Christmas...

Nutcracker!! We love it and I love to take my niece with us every year. This year we went to Studio West's first production of this ballet and they did FANTASTIC!! It was at the new theater at South Puget Sound Community College on the west side of Olympia.

Preschool girls only stop talking long enough to eat about a half of a cookie, then it's back to the chatter! So cute.

Just pumped after the show. They decided to do a little reenactment while Kyle brought the car around.

On the 9th Day of Christmas...

Oh how I love my morning coffee! Then it was craft time.


Candy houses to give as gifts from Sophia.


Organza/Satin/Tulle flowers as gifts from me. I did five or six of these: silver, gold, white, brown, and pink. They all turned out cute, but I forgot to take pics!

On the 8th Day of Christmas...

Kora treated us all with tickets to see the Radio City Rockettes' Christmas Spectacular! It was spectacular and soooo much fun! Sophia was in heaven.

A late night out for our little school girl. Asleep in the car before we were even out of Seattle.

On the 7th Day of Christmas...

Shopping, shopping, shopping. I found the sweetest ornament for my baby boy on his first Christmas and it looks perfect on his cute little tree.