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| December 22- My sweet smiling boys on Family Fun Night :) |
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| December 21- The youth group girls came over to make Christmas cookies for the Christmas Eve service. It was so fun to have some baking buddies-I hope this becomes a Christmas tradition. |
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| December 20-" Mom , what's with this water stuff? I can't quite grab it!" -Der |
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| December 19- A fun party with my teacher friends :) |
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| December 17- We had a date night scheduled (our sweet friend Katy was going to watch Der), but since turning 6 months he has decided that he wont take a bottle any more-spoiled, I know! We didnt want to leave her with that mess, so we had a date night in! We dressed up and pretended (I know, very kidish) that we were in Italy. We made a yummy Italian dinner together and drank wine. We werent sure why we didnt do this more often...next we are going to France :) |
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| December 16- Gotta love his hair! And how appropriate that his shirt says "handsome and charming like daddy." I do have handsome and charming boys! |
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| December 15- No, Der did not get into my lipstick...he is "eating" prunes. Thankfully, one of his favorites since my little man gets stopped up easily. |
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| December 14- Der is getting a new perspective on the world. |
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| December 13- Better late than never, right? Most of you have received these by now (with your Christmas card). Why, you are wondering would we send birth announcements after Der is already 6 months old. Well, we had wanted to early on and life got too busy (new babies will do that) and then we figured we were already using a stamp to send Christmas cards, so what not? So, here is our birth announcement! Ryan took these pictures and designed the card...I was very impressed! What a beautiful baby boy!! :) |
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| December 12- My baby sweetly sleeping in the car after a crazy weekend! |
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| This house looked like something out of a Dr. Seuss book. There was so much to see, we parked and walked around. Der loved being so close :) |
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| Another fun picture! |
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| December 11- Another family tradition! We went to Highland Park to look at Christmas lights. Der loved it!! And so did his mommy :) |
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| December 10- HILARIOUS! Frank dressed as Santa. Its a good thing we arent doing Santa cause Der looks pretty terrified (even though its his grandpa). |
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| December 9- SURPRISE! Happy 60th birthday Nancy (Meme). The 3 of us and Ryan's brother's headed home to surprise their mom for her birthday. The surprise was a success and Nancy was excited to see all her boys! |
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| December 8- Der loves when we give him sips from a straw. We arent sure how much he actually drinks... |
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| December 7- This isnt the best picture (my camera was on a strange setting I couldnt figure out how to fix)...but this is what happens were we go out of town...lots of laundry! |
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| December 5- Warm new winter jammies. |
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| Decorating the tree..one of my favorite things! (after cutting a foot off so it would fit in the room...those trees look a lot smaller in the field!) |
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| In front of the tree we picked. |
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| December 4- A new Christmas tradition... picking out our Christmas tree from a Christmas Tree Farm! We had a great time choosing and cutting down the tree and I was very entertained watching Ryan secure the 11 foot tree onto our car. And people were even brave enough to tailgate us on the way home. What a fun memory! |
