Family Christmas Photo 2008

Merry Christmas!!

Christmas Photo Shoot...Part I

More to come later...

Random Pictures

I'm trying to make up for a poorly blogged November! Here are a few random pictures from the past few days - starting with our sleeping princess. You just can't keep her awake past 8:00pm...but don't get me wrong - no complaints from us! She is almost ready to go up to bed for the night - just needs a "dream feed".

Chad and Matthew snuggling while watching Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas...this is a nightly ritual :-)

Anna likes wiggling and talking to the tiger while playing on her play mat.

Smiling Sissy Anna :-)

The Mom and Matthew Bake-Off!

Today Matthew and I decided to make muffins. Here we are getting started, and yes, that is a just add water (and chocolate chips!) banana muffin mix. Not really homemade, but in this house it counts! Matthew is having a little chocolate milk before getting started.

He was the official dumper! This was a job he really enjoyed!

Matthew was pretty keen to stir too.

Watching the muffins rise was a great distraction.

The final result was a hit! Matthew loved them...especially picking out the chocolate chips!

Here they are...bet they last a day in this house!

Anna Cheers for the Pens!

This has been a weekend of firsts for Anna - this afternoon she watched her first Pens game with Mom. Or at least she hung on for the 1st period...then nap time called. Too bad the Pens couldn't pull off the win!

Visit With Santa

Today we took the kids for a visit with Santa. Though Matthew was as stiff as a board, he still managed to tell Santa that he wanted Thomas and Percy for Christmas. Sissy was a star as usual, sitting happily with Santa :-)

Sissy's First Swim!

Although the title of this entry is Sissy's first swim most of the pics are of Matthew, who hasn't been swimming since the summer. Both kids had a fabulous time! Here is Matthew getting ready to go down the slide...

...the launch...

...fewff...glad Dad was there for the catch!

Here is Matthew with future sweetheart Rebecca. Matthew seems quite taken...Rebecca isn't quite as sure :-)
Finally - here is Sissy Anna! She had a great time swimming - never cried a tear and stayed in the pool for about 40 minutes having fun! Her swim suit looked a bit complicated to get on, so we opted for just trunks. Maybe next time I'll put it on at home first :-)