Tis the Season...

Season's Greetings!

Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and got everything they wished for! I certainly did! All I wanted for Christmas was to have a wonderful and memorable first Christmas with Cady. And I got it :) Larry said recently that she won't remember her first Christmas, but he would, and he wanted it to be special.

I've been trying for years to get Larry to start some traditions with me at Christmas...to the point I think the trying part was getting to be the tradition! So this year he finally caved and started some with me.

On Christmas Eve-Eve, we made our first trip as a family to the Elks Lodge in Bedford to see the Christmas lights that they display every year. Then on Christmas Eve, we spent the afternoon with my dad and little sister, Ashleigh. After which we ran home and grabbed Madie and went over to my mom's house. Since there is so many people at Mama's on Christmas day and her new dog, Cody...aka Wild Child...and Madie play so "ruff" together that we decided to bring her over early to celebrate Christmas with Nanny and Papa. Mama and I cooked and talked and cooked some more. Once we got home, Cady got to open her one Christmas Eve gift (we always got to do this when I was a kid). She received some Christmas Pajama's! I read "The night before Christmas..." to her. She went to sleep before we got to spread the Reindeer Food over the lawn.

I had been looking forward to Christmas morning for months this year. Not for the gifts but because we got to stay at home this year!! Cady must've known it was a special day because she woke up at 7:30am and was ready to go! We opened presents from Santa and friends. It was really a wonderful time.

This is my sister in law, Tina. She loved on Cady and put her down for a nap. She is such a wonderful person and I'm so happy that she's apart of our family. Cady loves her too!

















And here's Sweet Baby Cady, out for the count. Christmas wore her out!


On a side note, a big Congratulations goes out to our friends, Laura & Matt Lane. They welcomed a son into the world this morning around 8am. Mason weighed in at 7lbs 7oz.
Welcome to mommyhood! It's the best place ever!


Happy New Year! Be Safe!

Happy Holidays!!

I'm a bit behind but wanted to wish everyone a Happy Holiday season! As usual we had a busy Thanksgiving, but really enjoyed it because it was Cady's very first Thanksgiving! We had a great time with the family and of course went shopping on Black Friday...yep, we are part of the "crazies" that get out there at 3am! But it's so much fun :)

We have our tree up and have some decorations up at the house. Christmas parties and wrapping presents...you can tell it's the holiday season! I have made my mind up that nobody is going to put a damper on this Christmas. Larry and I will never be able to get back our first Christmas with Cady and I refuse to let anyone dampen my spirits this year. You always have that Bah humbug pop up and this year I'm not listening to them :)

I'm so very excited this year because for the first time since Larry and I have been married we will spend Christmas morning at home!!!! We always get up early and rush down to his mom's house for Christmas morning, but now that Cady is here we will be having Christmas at home from now on. We have always worked around everyone else since we didn't have any children, but this year things are a' changing :) Not trying to be ugly here, just very excited!!

We recently took Cady's 3 month pictures....she's growing so fast!! Sorry they are so streaky, my scanner is on a downward slope. Enjoy!!

This was her Halloween costume...she was a dragon. We even got her to say "rawh" a couple of times :) And of couse everyone knows "rawh" means "I love you" in dragon! And believe it or not, she was actually asleep in this picture! She'd just finished a bottle and wanted to take her cat nap for the evening.

And this is her monster blanket. Meant to be a Halloween blanket, however Cady loves on it every day. It goes with her to the sitters, on trips, to Nanny's house...everywhere! Plus it's so cute :)