Christmas 2009

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all!! Here are quite a few of our Christmas pictures from this year. We are very blessed this holiday season and are very thankful for the gifts that we received. It was so great being able to spend time with family and remember our Saviour's birth. Keira would often be excited for both Jesus' birthday and for Santa coming - not toootally getting the concept of either but still fun to watch. You can find more of the pictures on our picasa site - "our pictures."

Our tree! And Keira putting on the final touches.

Family pix on Christmas eve.

The girls :)

Christmas morning and Keira all excited to see the presents.

Keira received a 'Silent Night' light up and song book from Paw Paw & Mimi. It was quite the show stopper - she loved it! Thank you :)

Keira in her tutu

Keira and Daddy at Gma & Gpa Goods

Meeting baby Joshua for the first time. She LOVED holding him!

Playing with cousins

Two peas in a pod. These two had so much fun over the weekend together. It was great for us adults to be able to sit back and relax while all the kids played!

The mini - Christmas performance and our two favorite angels.

Just playing and hanging out. Keira had her orange cape on too, but took it off before i could take a pic.

Silly Annika!
We also had SNOW! So the 3 of us went out and 'played.' Thanks A. Mandi for the snowpants!! They worked GREAT!

Let it snow....

Catching snow on our tongues. :)

Howabout lollipops for now?

Keira is DEFINITELY my daughter.

Keira using daddy's logic against him. She, of course, wanted healthy granola bars but seeing as we don't have any left she used the logic that since we don't have any and they are at the store that she might as well get lollipops instead...leaving all the blame on the parents.

Thanksgiving 2009

This year we traveled to Hocking Hills area to a place called Bittersweet Farms. It was a definitely a 'cozy' place for 8 people!!

Chell & Keira checking out the vaulted/open ceilings.

It was pretty far up there!

Elmo even joined us for the holiday. :)

Daddy & Keira hiking at Ash Cave. It was a great day for a hike.

Hmm...which way should we go?

Keira making her own fun in the closets

Cheeeeeese!

Two under 2

This week Chell and I had the pleasure of watching Ellie!! It worked out to just be three of the 5 days, but we had some fun. The girls played great together and totally entertained us! We played games, read books, played in the kitchen, did crafts, sang songs, went to the library and of course the occasional Elmo and princess shows. It was great fun. At first I didn't know how it would go with TWO kids, but was a good test run for what's to come in the spring. :) Enjoy the pix and the fun video.

And they allll fellll downnnn!

Ellie in the toy box!! At one point they were both in there! That was interesting :)

Look at mee! - And all the toys. Needless to say we had fun!

This is Ellie saying "Cheese" for the camera. Looks like a frown, but I promise she was saying cheese!

Keira's snowman and her attempt at looking at the camera :)

A week in pictures

I NEED to get better about taking and posting these pictures so this week I tried to take one picture a day. I had 6, but I think blogger only lets me do five at a time. Enjoy!

Keira helped me out what pictures to post. She chose this one of herself in pig-tails. Even though you can only see one of them.

We also had church directory pictures this week. So we practiced with different hairstyles. This is what we came up with for Thursday. SUCH a cutie!!

One morning I found Keira upstairs being super quiet. So I had to go investigate. This is what I found. She had a whole pile of books sitting by her side and she was just reading!!

Testing out some halloween candy :)

She still loves these cowgirl boots :) Don't they go great with yellow PJ's? ?

Halloween 2009

Ok, Ok so I'm finally getting these up as well!! Here is our SUPERGIRLLL!!!! Keira had a blast with this homemade outfit. The shirt, from Daddy who got it before Keira was even born. The skirt, cowgirl boots, stockings (you'll see further down) are all hand-me-down clothes. And the cape and mask are made by yours truly. Like 5 min. before our first trick-or-treater arrived at the door. Keira loved handing out the candy to the kids the first night (yes we have kids come two nights in a row around here) - "more kids? More kids??" and then second night we all headed out as a family to trick-or-treat. Daddy had her practice quite a few times until she got down exactly what she was supposed to say. Well she did great at home! But in front of the neighbors she got a little 'door-shy.' Ohwell, she still had a great time!!

She loved the boots!! A little hard to get around in at first, but then she didn't want to take them off!

Super Girl!!! This is her pose as she's getting ready to take off! :)

"SUPER GIIIIIIIRRRLL"

Ok. Seriously, look at all the lollipop's that she has in her hands. Yeah, one kid definitely got most of these before I could stop her from putting them in the bag. She's so generous!

This was taken just before we hit the streets to go get some goodies. It was a bit nippy out, but at least not raining like the night before. Happy Halloween everyone!!

Paw Paw & Mimi visit

I am so behind on my posting. Need to catch up!! - - Last week my Dad & Martha were able to make a quick visit out. Here are some pix from their visit.

Ooooh look! A ladybug! And Keira is actually holding it! I think at one point she also squished one between her fingers and that didn't even faze her.

Look Mommy, look!

And of course what are grandpa's famous for!? The 'balance on my hands and then flip you' trick :) So here we have the balancing......

Paw Paw concentrating hard....

And WHOOP! Down she goes. Keira loved it and got the biggest kick out of it. She wanted to do it 'some more.'

Weekend at the zoo

Most of you have seen the pictures on facebook of these two little ones having fun at the zoo. It's funny that we basically got the same pictures, but here's my version!! We worked with Todd & Kelli to try and get together most of the fall at the zoo and it finally worked out the very last weekend it was open. Next year we'll have to look at getting a season pass or something. A picture that I didn't get that I was bummed about was Keira on the merry-go-round. She, as usual, started out terrified and freaking out, but by the end didn't want to get off. She wanted to go again! Ohwell. She'll get used to these things right?? Enjoy the pictures.

Keira and Bailey chillin' in the train. That's Daddy's hand w/ his new iPhone!!

Hey, let's explore this thing a little bit!

Hi everyone!!

Peek-a-boo I see you!

Making some noise on the drums. Yaaaaay!

Keira's Birthday

We also celebrated Keira's big #2 birthday!! Hard to believe two years have gone by already. I started off the morning by getting our breakfasts together and while doing that I told Keira of the morning we went to the hospital. It was fun reminiscing the story of her birth, she just kept saying "mmhmmm." Like she was really listening but someday it'll stick. Then we were off to church, home again for lunch and a nap then it was Elmo Birthday time!!! She loved, her Elmo birthday cake made by a great friend at church. Keira also got some new toys(!) to play with. We had a great time and thank you to all for the birthday wishes!
Daddy & Aunt Chell worked hard on putting together the kitchen set from Nana. Now she can help mommy in the kitchen too with her own kitchen :)

And Aunt Chell got her some books and some yummy pretend food for her kitchen! Cheese!

Uncle Nate, Aunt Colette and Annika got Keira a bike. It's huge!! But will definitely come in handy when the weather turns warmer again. Here are the two girls hitchin' a ride together.

And last, but not least Granpa and Granma got Keira a stroller! Keira had a great time wheelin' around her baby the rest of the afternoon. Thank you again one and alllllllll!!! We love you!