[ Merry Christmas! ]

I've been so behind on blogging because we've been so busy with family this Christmas season. So here are a few new pictures of what we've been up to! Hope all of you have a wonderful Christmas!

[ 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!