[ Very Belated Posts! ]

Alright, so I'm making up for lost time with all these posts! I've been feeling so yucky with this pregnancy that I really haven't done a whole lot, which you can tell by my lack of blogging. The last few days have been much better though, so I hope I'm over the worst of it! My house is now put back together, I've been taking pictures and cooking and sewing and scrap-booking again, so I'm feeling much more normal! Thank heavens for that! But I'm not sure who came up with the term "morning sickness" because it's more like "anytime of the day sickness" which is not fun! But anyway, here are some pictures of what we've been up to lately, so I hope you enjoy!

[ Angie the Artist ]

At least we think so! Here are a few pictures of Angie with her new art easel. Anything that has to do with creativity Angie loves! She thought it was so cool that she could erase on the wipe off board... hours of enjoyment! She drew some pretty cool pictures that were very different than her usual circles and lines, she now puts them together and drew things that actually looked like something! The second picture is her version of the sun... not too bad huh? And the last picture was our favorite because it was a person, her version of course, but pretty cool! You can see the eyes, nose, mouth, legs, curly hair and many arms! :) It looks more like a little monster, but still is very cool! Enjoy!

[ Wedding Reception ]

Brad and Krystal's wedding reception was beautiful! It was so great to see so many of our family's friends and of course the happy couple! Here are a few pictures of our new family! Unfortunately Angie wasn't feeling good that night so we only got a couple good pictures of her. She's always happy when she's with her Nana of course! Congrats Brad and Krystal... you two look great together!

[ Happy New Year! ]

Here's a video clip of our exciting New Year's celebration! This took place just before 8pm which is Angie's bedtime, not at Midnight! I don't think John and I even made it to Midnight! That's what happens when you get older and you have a kid! Oh well, it was fun to relax and throw some pop-its with Angie! Yahoo! Hope everyone had a Happy New Year

[ special present... special news! ]

The most exciting present for us to give our parents for Christmas this year was our "special news" of baby #2. Here is the look of shock, surprise and excitement on our Mother's faces! Classic! I'm so glad I had my camera ready! They were very pleasantly surprised to say the least!

[ Christmas Morning! ]

So this year was the first year we were able to do our very own Christmas morning as a family. Since both our families are only 20 minutes away, we could do our own thing in the morning and also see our families later in the day! It was so fun to start our own family traditions with Angie. She's just now starting to understand everything about Christmas, so that made it even more fun! Her two big gifts from Santa were a tent with a tunnels, (if you look closely you can see Angie's head at the top of the tent!) and her train set. She loved both of them and didn't know what to play with first! It was great to watch the look of excitement on her face... it was priceless! Oh how I love Christmas!

[ Christmas Cookies ]

Angie had so much fun with her Aunt Lauren making Christmas sugar cookies! She especially liked putting on the sprinkles, or "sparkles" as she called them. They did a great job because the cookies tasted so good! Thanks Aunt Lauren for all the baking fun!