Christmas 2012

Merry Christmas 2012!

We celebrated at Nik's house and were spoiled rotten...seriously rotten!

6 years

Who cares that we actually let the day come and go without realizing December 6th was our 6 yr anniversary? Who cares it was December 12th before I realized it? I guess things like our beautiful daughter are more important these days than celebrating a Match.com lunch date.

Happy 6 years, Babycakes!

So excited for the year we have in front of us as we transform our lives!

Sandy Hook

Friday we were all horrified to learn of the school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, CT. I was obsessed with news coverage all weekend. I cried over and over again each time I watched but couldn't seen to turn my eyes away.  I am literally sick at the events and I honestly cannot even imagine how those parents are coping.

SJ woke me up at 12:30 on Friday night....just another night in a long week of sleepless nights due to her being sick. As soon as I heard her, I jumped out of bed...so thankful that I have a baby calling for me. When I got back in bed, I couldn't sleep. It was now 2:35am CT time, what were those 20 Mothers doing? Were they sleeping? Could they sleep? Were they able to even leave the school, knowing their babies were still inside? Brian and I both discussed how we wouldn't be able to physically leave.

President Obama said it best when he quoted the saying that when you have a child, you begin to wear your heart outside of your body....your most precious and vital organ, on the outside of your body. Any of you Mothers out there reading this right now probably agree.

My heart just aches for these family and can only imagine what the coming weeks and months will bring....including Christmas, which is almost too much to bare.

God Bless you Sandy Hook!

Seriously?

Have a Holly, Jolly Christmas!

Brothers

Its been a long time since Deacon engaged with another dog like he used to do with our Zachey Poo Dew. This picture made me smile!

Christmas has arrived!

After much debate about Christmas trees and if a 13 month old could be controlled around one, we plowed forward with our (my) favorite shopping trip of the year....to Home Depot for our tree. Syd, dressed in an adorable snowman outfit, wandered around and was in awe of the chainsaw the men were using to cut the bottoms off of the tree.

Once home it was lunch time, which what that really means is we lucked out that she was strapped to her chair for 30 minutes while we got the tree up without the interruption of small fingers and grabby hands.

We went with a much smaller tree in hopes the branches would not be hit by passing dogs and babe and so far it is working out perfectly. I love the process of hanging each ornament and remembering the trip, vacation, person and dog that it represents. Each year it is a new surprise and I love it.

I can't wait until Syd is big enough to have the anticipation of Christmas like I do!