Thursday, January 13, 2011

December 22- My sweet smiling boys on Family Fun Night :)
 
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.
December 20-" Mom , what's with this water stuff?  I can't quite grab it!" -Der
December 19- A fun party with my teacher friends :)

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Birth announcement (finally!) makeshift date nights and my handsome and charming baby with spiky hair!

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 :)
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!
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.
December 14- Der is getting a new perspective on the world.
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!! :)

Monday, January 3, 2011

A weekend to remember...

December 12- My baby sweetly sleeping in the car after a crazy weekend!
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 :)
Another fun picture!
December 11- Another family tradition!  We went to Highland Park to look at Christmas lights.  Der loved it!! And so did his mommy :)
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).
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!

A few of our favorite things (and laundry)...

December 8- Der loves when we give him sips from a straw.  We arent sure how much he actually drinks...
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!
December 5- Warm new winter jammies.
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!)
In front of the tree we picked.

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!