Christmas

It was the perfect Christmas! I cant really put it into words, I guess it was one of those moments that you just had to be there. Having a child brings back the Christmas spirit. It enables us to see Christmas from there perspective. Which uniquely enough is not all about the presents. (however, Franki did bode very well this year from everyone a huge thank you for all of her wonderful gifts). It's was just so fun watching her eyes light up looking at the tree, watching her take down the ornaments, wathcing her with excitement as she played with Hulk and his new toys. She just enjoyed every moment with the family. It was a magical christmas for us all. I cant wait to continue our christmas traditions in the years to come. We are blessed this year for having the Christmas spirit returned! Thanks to my loveable little Gal!

Snow

We have been busy. The kind of busy that keeps you smiling for more and at the same time makes your yearn for some quiet pj all day kinda time. This weekend we were able to do a little bit of both and throw snow, beautiful christmas lights, family and friends into the mix and we call that a perfect little weekend (well almost take away my cold and cough then id say absolutely perfect). But it didnt stop us from enjoying our time together. We had our first real snow of the year, 1 inch of fluffy white snow that only stuck around for long enough for a few hours of delight. Check out this sweet baby girl enjoying her first snow of the year many more to come I would guess. Were hoping for a white christmas so she can do some more of this...

Christmas Spirit

We are fully in! What can I say it's Christmas time and it just puts a cheer in our home and in our hearts. With Franki and just in general Tyler and I have always enjoyed making and creating new christmas traditions together as a family. We have been in full christmas mode since thanksgiving. Our house is decked out on the outside and inside. We went and got our tree and dcorated it this saturday while christmas music filled our house and franki danced around the house and pulled all the ornaments that we put on off. Its part of the fun when your a kid! We also celebrated some Santa christmas and some crisp cool air on friday night with our good friends. They had Santa, music outside and some pretty lights on trees and just around town. It was a fun night filled with friends and children that make us smile with there sweet dispositions. Needless to say Franki is not a fan of Santa this year and by not a fan I mean absolutely terrified, to the point that it was actually kind of funny, at least for us anyway. We got a classic scared of Santa christmas photo that we will be able to look back on years from now! Enjoy a peak at our first Christmas filled weekend. We ended the weekend with soup and enchiladas with my parents, a deliscious and warm way to end a perfect weekend.

 Love that Sweet dimple

 Fun at the park!

Franki and Emma, sweet girls!

 Coloring

 Dancing Girls!

 Hugs

 One very Scared Franki, One very Happy Emma :) ( feel free to laugh its ok we did)

 Post Candy Cane Bliss :)

16 months!

Sweet girl is 16 months old. Which means one thing she is getting closer and closer to being a big sister. She is going to be such a good Big sister. She is such a lovey girl. I swear she gets more lovey by the minute. Her favorite things to do when she is around other kids is hold there hands, give them hugs, and lots of kisses. She insists on holding all little kids hands it is her very sweet nature. She is just a very tender hearted little thing. She hates being yelled at, or even when you raise your voice she cries. For example, all you have to say is omg Franki you broke my sunglasses, not even in a mean tone and she cries. She trully feels bad, it is so sad. She is learning all kinds of new words. Her favorties that she uses all the time are UP, HI, HULK, Hot (in reference to lights, candles, the heating vents), Duck, Off (meaning anything from open, out, or off), more (also means again), Dog, and most recently Slides. She continues to love being outside. Even when its 20 degrees she prefers the outside to the inside. She has 12 teeth. She also recently learned how to do the Hokey Pokey (thanks to ELMO), and she loves to do ring around the rosie. She is just a sweet pee all around. She knows what she wants when she wants it and will let you know weather its with a yelp, scream or with words. She continues to understand just about everything we say. I hate to say it but I still put her to sleep every night. It is getting easier and easier. I usually only have to hold her for about 10 minutes, but she still loves momma snuggles and Im just not willing to give that up since soon she wont want those snuggles anymore.

As for baby number two were hanging in there. I am officially 10 week or less from this little girl making her arrival. CRAZY. It has gone by much faster than the lats pregnancy, but about the same. Contracting and in lots of pain, which equals lots of doctor visits (thank goodness for a doctor at the same hospital I work), lots of monitoring and the same answer as always, take it as easy as possible and call or come back when things get worse. So far the preterm labor test that predicts early labor has been negative. So far we will do this test every two weeks. If it comes back positive then any contractions will land me in a hospital bed to wait fror baby girl to arrive. So for now we just hang out, live our day to day lives and see what she has in store.

 A sneek peek at some outtakes for the x-mas card.