Holidays Part II

Hello friends :) It's cold here today!! Too cold for the baby to be outside. I ran while Matt was still home this AM and my weather app said it was 0 degrees but felt like -11. It was about right! Although even a run in -11 degree weather was nice when I had no stroller to push or dog to pull along. I wasn't sure what to do with my hands! Actually that's not true...I had to ball them up inside the ski gloves I was wearing so they didn't freeze.

Anyway. Enough of that tangent! I'm back to share the rest of our Christmas pics.

When we were in VA, we had the chance to visit with friends.





It's so so fun to spend time with these babies and their parents!





We even got a night out on the town sans babe to celebrate Jenn's engagement :) Woo hoo!



On Christmas Eve we made a special trip to hang out with Grant's birthday brother.

And his amazing wife :)

We broke up the trip on the way back north a few days after Christmas by stopping off at my Grandparent's house for the night. John was in town for a 4 night Phish concert so we wanted to see him!

I didn't take many pics but here are a few :)



Little Phish fan.







By the time we headed back to VT Grant was DONE with being in the car. He did a little of this.

He wanted to do a lot of this but wasn't allowed while the car was in motion. He was MOST displeased and let us know it big time.



We came home to this!

Then we partied it up on NYE. First the babies partied.



Grant displayed his love for his friend Holland.



Then the babes went to bed (all over the house - it was super cute) and the parents had our chance to party :)



I'll be back with more winter fun!

xo

It has been a while....

I've been absent. Sorry about that! I have excuses.  First came Christmas then we came home and my computer gave me the blue screen of death. It was only mildly traumatic since I had all my files backed up. Now I'm writing this post from my brand new Mac! Hooray! Bear with me as I figure out how to use it.

How about I start with the holidays? We braved it and drove the 12.5 hours to Virginia with a 6 month old. It actually went great! We spent time with both families and Grant had lots of quality time with grandparents and aunts. To save time I'll just let you enjoy the pics :)















A new stocking :)























There was no present shortage this year! Grant received lots of fun new things (as did we).







Yum.









Grant also met his Great Aunt Sandra for the first time :)



Whew! That was just family time in Lynchburg! We also spent some fun time with friends and stopped in NY on the way back to VT to see my brother, grandparents and other fam. I'll post on those soon!

xo!

Bubbie was here

Matt calls my mom the "Bubbinator" because she chops items off a to-do list like nobody's business.  Seriously - she's amazing.  She came to stay with us in early December because Matt was out of town on business. It was so fun! I'm just going to share a few pictures of Christmas decorations because she did the bulk of the decorating at my house :) She also painted a bench, took care of Grant and Willow, made food, etc. If only she lived here all year. Sigh.

Enjoy the pics (sorry most of them are not edited....).

The tree is just about the only thing I did by myself before she arrived :)

Bubbie Love :)

Ornament...yum.

Plus one with mom!

xo!

The best $25 I've spent in a long time....

Before I had a baby, I promised I wouldn't have tons of plastic stuff sitting around my house. Well...I had no idea then how much babies love all these large ugly plastic things. See below.

IMG 3424 from Chelsea Tedder on Vimeo.

LOVE the Exersaucer :) I should correct the title to "The best $25 my mom has spent in a long time..." since she bought it for me at a consignment sale. Thanks mom :)