Sweet baby blues

Just a few of my favorites...thanks again to Julie Glasgow for taking time to capture these precious moments for me! 

3 months old!

Our sweet boy is 3 months old today! I stole the idea of these cute onesies from a friend to mark his growth each month. He is now bigger than bear! He is such a great baby and we are so blessed to have him in our family! 

Catching up..forgot to post these of his first couple of months! 

Christmas 2011

We had a really nice Christmas this year. It was our first big event being a family of 5 and it went off without a hitch! It was especially nice that both Jeremy and I were home the entire Christmas break so it was great to spend some family time together. Christmas eve we attended an amazing service at church, although, as you can see by Case's mood before we went, I ended up spending most of the service in the hall with him :( 

After church, we had our traditional Christmas eve dinner, complete with appetizers, prime rib, crab legs, rolls, crock pot corn, a little wine and some birthday cake. 

After dinner the kids got to open their gifts from each other. Carter got a new scooter, new slippers, Husker football gear and a star wars remote control jet fighter. 

Santa came during the night and brought Case a Bumbo. How cute is he? He also got some new bath toys, and some cute clothes.

Claire got some accessories for her dollhouse, a pink computer, lots of princesses, coloring books, games, and some new dress up clothes. 

After the kids opened their Santa gift and dumped out their stockings, we headed west to Griswold to have brunch with Grandma Freeman, then to Cumberland to Grandma and Grandpa Berry's for dinner. Lots of good food to fill our bellies! 

The annual family Christmas picture! 

All this Christmas has wore me out! 

We decided to take the kids to a water park over break for some fun and gave the Washerbahn water park at the Amana Colonies a try. It was the perfect size for the kids and despite the COLD water we had a blast (luckily I didn't have to get in :)

Christmas??

Can you recognize what is wrong with this picture? No, it isn't one of those optical illusions where you see a hidden picture if you stare at it long enough. What is wrong with this picture is.....

NO SNOW!! ZERO!! ZILCH!! NADA!!

No one writes songs about a brown Christmas! Looks like that is what we are getting this year. No snow in the forecast for the rest of the week! I am so bummed by this. It just doesn't feel like Christmas without any snow! Yet, the festivities must go on!

Sam, our resident elf continues to show up daily. He has been getting himself into some pretty interesting predicaments around here! 

 Tree by Claire!

 All 4 Christmas trees have been assembled and decorated

 Santa has been visited. No prize winning photo this year! As we were waiting in line, Claire suddenly becomes very shy, hiding behind my leg and states, "Sometimes I like Santa, sometimes I don't. Today, I don't think I like him" She did get close enough for a picture with Santa but drew a blank when it came to telling him what she wanted, so luckily Carter did the talking for her. 

 The stockings have been hung! 

 And cute pictures of babies in Santa hats have been taken! 

 Can you tell which one is Case and which one is Carter? 

School is out tomorrow for 11 days, presents all wrapped, supplies for Santa's cookies bought, groceries for our special Christmas eve dinner purchased, Christmas music playing in the background, now if we could just get some SNOW!!

Family Pictures 2011