Christmas: In Review

We took the girls to see Santa the week of Christmas. We took them to the Rivertown mall. We were happy to get there and see a super short line! We waited only a couple minutes.

Addie was so excited! I told her if she was good, she would get a lollipop.

Well, she didn't get near Santa, and I made the mistake of giving her the lolly before she got to him.

At least Evie looks cute:

Santa was a disappointment, he rushed us out before we could further get Addie in the picture. I didn't even care if she was crying in it... now I have no Santa pic of her this year :(

We did promise Addie a ride on the carousel though. It was her first time ever, and she LOVED it! Sorry, I have way more pictures than anyone would want to see, but they are all so cute!














Addie trying not to smile...





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Addie opening her stockings. She got her first Little People. She LOVED them!


Evie with her stocking (well, my old one) She isn't as excited.


She got a toy for when she is older... I think Addie hijacked it now... she keeps chewing on it, weirdo!


Back to her own toys!


Opening presents at home:





I KNEW she would love to have a My Little Pony (it is behind the blocks)








Evie got a little doll... not very excited about it! haha! I think she sleeps through everything!


Addie loves building towers:





Evie "relaxing", I don't think that looks comfy at all!


awwwwwwwwww


Addie got a bitty baby from my mom, she loves her! We named her Lucy for Addie's middle name... she calls her Lulu though! ha!


She also got lipstick from my mom.... she is OBSESSED with lipstick!!!!!!!!


She got lots of Little People things from Joel's family! She was so excited, she loved them all!


I hope everyone had a great Christmas, and a Happy New Year!!!!!!

Vacation & Rose Petal Cottage

For our anniversary, Joel and I went to Traverse City. Here is a light house we saw (is it horrible, I can't remember the name?)
An example of my horrible camera skills... Joel is all blurry!


Another example of my "skills" The view from the light house:


We did a ton of driving, here are a couple of the shots:





I do a belly shot every other week, but I wanted to do one in a fun location with regular clothes... I think I look like a whale, the shirt is majorly poofing out!


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We missed our Addie, so when we got home, we finally put together her Rose Petal Cottage. I think it is from her birthday in April!!

She liked to use the fabric parts as blankets





She looks so sad :(


Done!


Addie checking it out for the first time!


She likes it!


Looking in the windows



Testing out the door



Elsie came in!


She loves having Elsie in her house







"Hi!!!!!"

No more April babies....

Today I got my first Mothers' Day present! I didn't get anything last year... so I thought I should get something good this year, right? Well, actually we were going to get it last year, but it just kept going on the back burner. Oh well! I got a "mom ring"! I am so excited about it!

Here it is... I couldn't take a picture of it actually on my finger because, let's face it, I may have the ugliest fingers ever! So, I zoomed really close!

I originally wanted a ring like my wedding band, only smaller... but since I have an April baby that was way too much $$$$ so I went with this, and I love it, small, simple, and pretty. Unfortunately the band was too thin to have anything engraved, so that is a bummer, but I am okay with it. When we have more kids I am going to get the same thing and stack the rings.

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On another note, we got the results of Addie's chromosome test today, and are happy to know she does not have Turner's Syndrome. Happy to know, even though I already knew :)

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And on yet another note, we are selling our car... I still think of it as my car, and am very sad about it, but the time has come. If anyone knows anyone looking for a great car, let me know! I am just about to go out and give it a good cleaning so I can list it tomorrow!

Christmas!!!!!!!!

Addie had her first Christmas party at the deWit Christmas, can you tell how excited she is about it?
She was SO tired that day! The party was the Saturday before Christmas. I TOTALLY forgot about it! Embarassing right? It was so bad, my mom called me after the party had already been in progress for an hour! I felt so bad, I can't believe I forgot, it was on the calendar and everything!

We celebrated Christmas with Joel's family on the day before Christmas Eve. Addie couldn't stay up late enough so she missed out :( She got a cute little Precious Moment, that is the same one that was my first! How fun! Her favorite present was her Baby Boggin from Aunt Beth. We took her for rides around the house... this is her first reaction...
Then she finally came around! (See Elsie in the background? She is such a baby, moping by the door because Joel had just left!)
Christmas Day is finally here!!!!!!!!! Joel had to work overnight, so we were up bright and early opening presents!

This is Addie checking our her stocking contents! A nice sock monkey named Lulu and some toys for the tub!

We tried out the tub toys tonight and she loved them! She really wants to crawl around the tub to chase them! It is hard to stop her, she also thinks she can stand in the tub. And she tries to eat the bubbles, she has gotten a face full more than once! No pics of that though, we need all hands on deck during bath time!

Addie's favorite parts of Christmas:

Eating wrapping paper:

And eating presents!




Now. Doesn't this look like the face of a baby who is about to get a GREAT present?


Nope, just medicine! She is so crazy!!!!!! It is hilarious every day though! We didn't get that kind of reaction out of any of her presents!!!!!!



We also went to my mom and dad's house to open presents! Here are all the grandkids: Chase, Addie, Kristopher, Ella, and Ethan.
Here is Addie in her fab hat and coat. We got it for Jaki's wedding, but she was too crabby and never wore it, so here she is! Ella has a matching coat, we still need a picture of them together!



And here is our family at my mom's! Turned out okay I think.

And this is non-Christmas related, but I am putting it here anyways!

Someone is pretty proud of herself!


It is funny, she will pull herself to standing when I sit her in her crib, she can get to sitting from laying down, but she hasn't pulled herself up alone yet, when she wakes up or anything. We really need to lower her crib mattress though!

These were taken tonight:

I actually took a few more, but I can't bore you with MORE pictures tonight!

I hope everyone had a great Christmas!!!!!!!

(Oh! We FINALLY finished painting our kitchen cabinets last week! I will post before and after pics in the next couple days!)