Thursday, December 30, 2010

{Sleep}walking in the 21st Century

I love watching the kids sleep...they always look so peaceful and sweet...


Elizabeth is a wonderful sleeper...during the day!  I suppose some of it is my fault too, because I love to hold her...and come night time...she won't sleep much unless I'm holding her!

...and that just means I get to watch this precious face sleep the day away...while I feel like I'm sleep-walking!  But I know it will pass...and I'll have plenty of time to sleep when she's older.

Today she had to get a shot for her one-month check up...

{oops...shouldn't have told her where we were going!}

{But she was just fine once she found out we were going to Target afterward to spend some Christmas money!}

And because I'm so tired...I drove all the way to my doctor's office before I realized I was at the wrong place!  Oops!  My ob won't be able to check her now!  So we had to drive to the pediatrician's office on the other side of town! 

It wasn't a long wait...but I had a new toy to keep us busy...


Dan gets free stuff from work when he buys lots and lots of supplies throughout the year...so that meant a new iPod touch with a camera for me! 

Emily and I had fun taking pictures of ourselves with it in the waiting room!


...I finally feel like I'm part of the 21st century now!  Ha!  I just have to ask Alex to help me install some music and fun apps! 

{Now guess who wants an iPod for her birthday?}
{...sigh...}

I told her she needs to save her money...but she decided she wanted to spend it today!

{thanks Grammy!}

We had a fun visit with my mom, sister and nephew yesterday for our Christmas...

{Alex is such a good helper...he is always wanting to hold Elizabeth and get her when she cries!  And Emily has already changed quite a few diapers!}

I can't believe it's almost a new year already.  We plan on celebrating at home with movies and the Wii.  And Emily is excited to go with Daddy this time to the IU game on New Year's Eve! 

And Dan and Alex are working on painting his room this weekend cream & crimson for IU!  I can't wait to see how it turns out!  I'm staying downstairs out of the mess so the boys can work!
Guess that just leaves me to take down the Christmas tree and decorations...before the next century!
Happy New Year!

Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Wordless Wednesday {The Next BIG IU Fan}

{GO IU!}
{...and I'm one-month old!}

Saturday, December 25, 2010

Merry & Bright {and EARLY!}

Christmas morning arrived bright and early at our house...we were up before 5:30 and presents were all unwrapped and opened by 6:30...yawn...


...but it's so hard to sleep knowing you might wake up to this...
{after sprinkling reindeer food outside...}
{and leaving cookies and chocolate milk out for Santa, of course!}

Alex has asked Santa for two years...and he must have been awfully good this year to finally get these...

No question...his favorite gift!

...followed by this...
{which looks like trouble to me!}

Emily was so excited to see a camper for her dolls and animals when she came downstairs!
{we decided it may need its own parking spot in the garage!}

And she's had a ball scooting all around the house on her new scooter...
...playing with her new Barbies...

...and taking a big donut break...

She was so thrilled to get this, ha!
Elizabeth was happy to get a few little surprises too...

It has been a fun Christmas!

Especially when we get to spend it with our 3 most precious loves...

We can't leave out our traditional family Christmas Eve either!  It's hard to believe how big the kids get every year!

The cousins don't see each other as much now that they're all in school and so many activities...so they enjoy this time of year!

...and getting presents sure makes it lots of fun, too! 
{Alex got a telescope...I guess in all the fun, I forgot to get his picture...darn!}

Elizabeth slept the whole time...but I think she loved all the attention she was getting!

I just can't believe another Christmas has passed already...sigh...but we'll always have these wonderful memories!


Hope you have a Happy New Year too!  I'm sure I'll be up celebrating with Elizabeth this year!