Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Hotel fun

We went to York last weekend to visit with Mike's family. We stayed in a hotel, which I was a little bit nervous about because I wasn't sure how the kids were going to sleep with us all in one room. They did fantastic, though, and they had fun exploring the room together.
They also enjoyed the pool. We spent an hour or so there each morning relaxing before going over to Nana's.




Baby steps!

We went to my Aunt Jeanne's house the day after Christmas. Sarah was cruising all over the place, then all the sudden she let go and took 2 steps all by herself to get to my dad. Way to go Sarah!

Christmas Day

I finally got a decent pic of the kids together on Christmas Eve. I made a special nightgown for Sarah to wear.
When Cody woke up on Christmas morning, he was very excited to see that Baby Jesus had indeed arrived in the manger of his nativity set.

Then he was even more amazed to come downstairs and look at all of the presents under the tree!



Sarah opened a few presents, but mostly she just liked to watch everyone else. This princess car from Grandma was one of her favorite presents.


The cousins were so cute sitting together on the couch to open their stockings!




All dressed up

The kids got all dressed up for church the Sunday before Christmas. I tried to get pictures of them sitting together in front of the tree, but they were more interested in undecorating it!


Saturday, December 20, 2008

Oh Christmas Tree!

We went to get our Christmas tree last weekend. Cody didn't want to ride the horses this year, he wanted to ride the tractor. He had fun walking around the tree farm, and he tried to help daddy drag the tree out.



Sarah was enchanted by the sparkly ornaments (all shatterproof, of course).

Cody wanted to decorate the tree himself. He also wanted to stand on the ladder for every ornament, so they are pretty much all concentrated around the middle. Oh well, he had a good time!



My bottom row of lights keeps ending up on the floor. Wonder how that is happening?!




Sharing a lolli

Cody had a lollipop the other day and Sarah wanted it in the worst way. So, he decided to share with her. My first instinct was to tell him no, but it was so darn cute! What's a little germs between siblings?


Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Sarah is such a happy baby. She always has a big smile on her face (except when Cody is torturing...I mean hugging... her) She has been doing a lot of cruising lately. She even walked all the way down the hall at my parents house by holding on to the banister rails.


We put up our nativity set the other day. Cody was fascinated. We left Baby Jesus out and I told him that He will come on Christmas day. He is really looking forward to it!



For Cody's first December, I did a scrapbook page with little pictures of all the things we did to get ready for Christmas. For Sarah's, I can already see that it will be a page with little pictures of all the cute Christmas outfits that she is wearing!