Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas to all my family and friends. I hope everyone is having a happy, healthy, and safe Christmas.

God Bless eveyone in the new year!

Merry Christmas Eve!

We had a very nice Christmas eve. This is Lacey's first Christmas and I'm sure she had a good time. She was very spoiled. Kylie also had a great time, she was most excited about the pink and purple unicorn that Nana and Papa got for her.

Gingerbread House

We are celebrating Christmas with Nana and Papa this year. Greg and I did some last minute Christmas shopping and I promised Kylie when we came home we would work on our Gingerbread house. We had lots of fun! Nana said this is the first Christmas she's ever had a Gingerbread House made at Christmas. Here are some pictures:

1 Month Old

I can't believe it but, our beautiful little Lacey is ONE MONTH OLD already! Where does the time go? She is a wonderful gift and we are blessed to have her in our lives.

I Love My Baby Sister

Kylie adores Lacey. Everyday I hear all day long, "Mommy I want to hold my baby." She holds her for quite a while, usually singing a lullabye to her.

Daddy & Lacey

Look What we found under the Christmas Tree!!

Here is only present we wanted for Christmas this year, and we couldn't have been more blessed.

Lacey you are a special gift to us all, we love you more than you could ever know.

Kylie is so proud to be your big sister. I hope you two will have this special bond forever.

Beautiful girl.

Kylie's 2008 School Christmas Program

Last night Kylie had her school Christmas program. It was very cute, here is a video of my favorite of all the songs they sang:

Lacey's 2008 Christmas Pictures

Here are Lacey's 2008 Christmas pictures. These pictures will also be used as Lacey's one month pictures. For those who know me know I take pictures of my children one a month their first year and then every 6 months and holidays until they are 2 and then only holidays and birthdays after that.

Kylie & Lacey 2008 Christmas Pictures

Here are Kylie and Lacey together:

My favorite

Kylie's 2008 Christmas Pictures

Here are Kylie's 2008 Christmas pictures:

Family Pictures- Christmas 2008

Today we took our annual family pictures. Also both girls had their Christmas pictures taken separately. I will do a separate post for the girls.

Here is a sample of the family pictures we had taken:

2 week old Doctor appt

Today Lacey had her 2 week old doctor appointment. Everything went well, she gained almost a pound - she weighed 8 lbs 7 oz (35th percentile), grew 1 inch - she's 21.25 inches. (80th percentile). Her jaundice is almost gone.

I think (hoping) she is going to have a darker complexion than Kylie. At least she does for right now, of course it could also be she still has some of her jaundice.

All in all she is right on track and she will have her next appointment in January.

Congratulations Kylie!

We are so happy for Kylie, tonight we learned that she will be moving up to the next level in swimming. She is currently in the Pike class at the YMCA and now starting in January she will be in the Pike Plus class.

Pike Plus is for 3-5 year olds that are able to swim the width of the pool independently with a floatation bubble while splashing his/her feet. The goal of this level is to have the child swimming confidently across the pool without a floatation device.

We are so happy for her, her biggest hurdle was being able to do the back float with a floatation board without getting upset. She can do this now.

We love you Kylie!

Happy Thanksgiving! Lacey's 1st Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving! This is Lacey's first Thanksgiving. We went to Nana and Papa's house. Uncle Chris, Auntie Charissa and Brandon were also there to celebrate with us.

Lacey after her Thanksgiving Day "feast".

Kylie loving on Lacey. Kylie loves being a big sister and getting to hold Lacey.

Uncle Chris and Lacey.

Auntie Charissa and Lacey.

Sisterly Love

Kylie absolutly loves to hold Lacey and Lacey sure doesn't mind being held at all. This was on Lacey's first full day home. Kylie wanted to hold Lacey for a "long time". This happened on 2 different occasions, both times she ended up falling asleep with Lacey.

Sisterly bonds that shall never be broken.

Introducing Lacey Victoria-Joy

Our precious baby girl was born Friday, November 21st. She weighed in at 7 lbs 8 oz and was 20.25 inches long. We are so happy and proud to have her in our family. She and Kylie look very similar, almost like twins! We could hardly believe our eyes when she was born - like carbon copies of each other. Lacey's birth was really very uneventful. We arrived at the hospital at 2:30 pm and she was born at 8:02 PM. Here are some pictures of our precious daughter:

Proud parents!

Proud Daddy.

Lacey after her bath.

Mommy and her girls.

Our new happy family.

38 Week Baby Appointment

Yesterday I went to the doctor for my 38 week appointment and was plesently suprised to find out that I am dialated to 3 1/2 and 80% effaced. Dr. Meekhof said he thought that I could possible deliver sometime this week. I have gained a total of 21 pounds as of this appointment. I have no idea what her heartbeat was, but I do know that he had a hard time finding it because she is dropped so low.

Kylie is trying to be as patient as she possibly can but its getting harder. Especially now that is has snowed and we told her that her baby would be born around Christmas time. When she saw the snow she was so excited she said:

"Daddy its snowing outside, you know what that means?"

"What does it mean?"

"It means my baby is comming soon!"

So now everyday she asks when her baby is comming. I we can do is say soon! Say a little prayer for me that everything goes smoothly.

Wordless Wednesday: First Snow

Kylie was so excited it snowed that she just had to wear her snow boots outside. She made sure to walk in as much snow as she could get away with, very cute!

Click her for more Wordless Wednesday pictures!

Swimming

Here she is swimming across the pool by herself with no bubble! We are so proud of her!




The backfloat, she is getting better and better everyday!