Alyssa 3rd Birthday (part 1)

We had a little Breakfast Birthday Bash with some of our friends (kids and Mommies) for Alyssa's 3rd Birthday before we headed east for the holidays.

It was a fun time. The kids got to pick a fun cereal to eat and their favors were straw bowls and rice krispie treat, and the mommies got to enjoy coffee and cinnamon rolls!!

The kids also wore their pj's. I kinda did a snowflake theme and the kids made snowflake crafts too. It was a great morning celebrating a very special little girl!!!

Eleven Months

Cole turned 11 Months on Dec. 10th!!! He is getting so big and just a JOY all the time. He is always happy and smiling. Even when he falls or bangs his head, he rolls over looks at me and laughs like it was funny. Most of the time Jeff and I just look at each other and say.. the girls would have been screaming! Not my tough guy though!!!

He is now completely weaned and handled the transition great! Never did a bottle, just right to a sippy cup and he was fine!!

He has recently started this thing where when he wakes up in the morning or from a nap where he throws EVERYTHING out from his crib. Once in awhile he will do it at nap time before he falls asleep, and we have to go in and put it all back in b/c he is crying (basically the only time he cries!!)

Christmas Party

The Smithgroup Christmas Party was at the DIA this year.

First Snow

We had a dusting of snow on Monday morning. The girls were so excited to see it when they woke up! It took about 20 minutes to get them all bundled up, and they only played outside for probably 15 minutes... but they were all smiles!

Thanksgiving

I am bummed I don't have any pictures from Thanksgiving. For Thanksgiving we went out to Sturgis, MI and spent the day with our friends The Werschky's. It was a great day and the food was delish!

On Saturday we were visited by our friends The Waldo's. They were traveling home from visiting Laura's parents and came here Saturday afternoon and stayed until Sunday morning. It was really great to see them. Again, I can not believe I do not have any pictures of that. Ugh!

On Sunday we worked on getting the house decorated for Christmas. The girls were so excited to get the tree up and decorated. We let them put the ornaments on, and agreed to leave it they way they decorated. Very hard for two Type A personalities! : ) Hayley however, is not pleased with our outside lights. We just have white lights on the house and she wants colored. Oh dear... don't think we will be able to do that! : )

Weekend Away

The weekend before Thanksgiving I went away for my annual scrapbooking weekend with Julie. We meet just outside of Pittsburgh for a weekend and we usually shop, eat and scrap the whole weekend!

This year though, Jeff and the kids came with me and dropped me off at the hotel. They then went to Jeff's brother's house for the weekend. The drive to PA was fine, however our drive back was probably the worst trip we have ever had with the kids. ugh! Next time... my weekend away, will be my weekend away! Till next year...