Ohio Trip: Part 4

Celebrating Christmas with gift opening happens on Christmas Eve.  That tradition began when Brian and I were little and we wanted to open 1 present on Christmas Eve. My dad thought that would be ok. Then the next year, we begged to open 2.  The next year, you guessed it...3.  Who knows when it happened, but eventually we started opening all our presents on Christmas Eve and then it stuck!  Even though I'm an adult now, I still don't mind a little early gift opening extravaganza ;)

Hannah is helping uncle and auntie open their presents

grandpa is cool!

blue train green train!

ripping paper is fun!

Christmas day hike

with Great Grandma Moore

dude, she's in my space

you stay over there and I'll stay right here

let me help you

kissing Great Grandma 

attempting a family photo...not quite

there we go!

CJ LOVES to take walks

so does Hannah

It's been a long day...cuddle time with Grandpa!

Ohio Trip: Part 3

Not only do we get to celebrate Christmas, we got to celebrate the 1st birthday of our nephew Ethan. Hannah got all dressed up for the occasion.  She was so cute, that daddy requested to have a picture taken with her!

All dolled up!

She loves her daddy...

...and her grandpa!

Here's the birthday boy! He is so stoic that he did not even give a smirk to uncle Clay even though Clay tried really hard

Waiting for pizza

Who is this girl and why is she holding me? ;)

The birthday boy all dressed in chocolate!

Ohio Trip: Part 2

Someone really likes his laptop

Watching Baby Can Read video...he likes the BIG words on the BIG screen

Airplane Carter!

Poking Grandpa's eye out just like he does on skype

This girl was so hungry and I couldn't keep up. We tried avocado but most of it ended up on the bib.

She had fun trying!

Ohio Trip: Part 1

Packed like sardines, we set off for the 8 hour trek to Ohio. Clay only had to rearrange the car 3 times in order to fit all our stuff. And guess what...the 8 hour drive took exactly that...8 hours! With a 5 month old and a 2 year old it was an unexpected surprise! 

Clay drove the entire way

My camera didn't do this justice...it was beautiful

Potty break! 

playing on his new laptop

sound asleep!

5 month girl

I had to get these posted before she turned 6 months... :)

you are making us do this again?

AND I have to touch her???

We aren't liking this

Seriously...get her off me

Well....she is kind of cute

and she seems to like m

Happy Now!

I even think she is deserving of a kiss!

We like each other!

So cute!

Present from Gigi

Gigi is Carter and Hannah's great grandma from Texas. She graciously surprised them with stuffed animals that respond to your voice. We gave Carter the option to pick which one would be his and which one would be baby's.  We thought it would be a good opportunity to learn how to share with his sister.  Did he get it?  Yeah, he got it. He got that we didn't let him keep both animals...not fair!

Cool! I get 2 new animals!

WHAT?!?! I have to give one to HER?

But I don't want to! These are both so cool that I want them both!

Ok, I guess I'll pick the bear...he's pretty cool

December Randomness

Below are some random shots of this past month...

loves his grapefruit...he begs for it all the time...yeah buddy!

took this pic AFTER I cleaned off her entire right leg...that's my girl!

first smile...in the bath ;)

able to grab things now...

...and proud of it!

It's been a while since I've lit candles around the house. We were having company so I wanted to get the house smelling good and festive. This little guy found it fascinating.  He ran straight to it and started...