Christmas 2012

Ok, we should be all caught up after this post.  We were VERY excited to actually be able to celebrate Christmas.  Sarah Anne got the flu the week before, which turned into pneumonia, in which her lung function was 6 points away from putting her in the hospital.  NOT A FUN TIME.  The poor baby was up from midnight Friday night until 6:00 pm Saturday at which point after 3 antibiotics and breathing treatments she knocked out.  Thankfully by Christmas Eve she was all better and had been fever free over 48 hours so we were able to move on with our plans.  My family had already planned on coming to our house so that worked well.  Our church does an AMAZING job with the children's Christmas Eve service and we were honored to be the family they chose to light the Advent candle.  Sarah Anne LOVED watching the 6th graders perform the story of Jesus' birth and also singing along with the Christmas carols.  It was PERFECT and was topped off by seeing her buddies and some animals.

Lighting the candle.

SO EXCITED about the glow lights.

WE FOUND MOLLY!!!!

Singing Silent Night and holding her light.

The 3 Amigos

They looked at us and said, oh I've got her!!  So sweet holding hands though!!

Opening her big pod phone from Bubby!!

Thanks Bubby!!

Amy Monster, let me show you how this works!!

What are we supposed to do now?

Santa likes Mountain Dew with his cookies 

OPENING PRESENTS!!!

A trash can for Daddy, here Daddy I will put you in it!!

Mimi's silly chicken!!

Playing Candy Land #1 out of #1,203,459 now.

Waving to the people on the Disney Parade!

Cooking with Nanny!!

Let me try this icing before I put it on the cookie.

Decorating cookies with Bubby, aprons are expected!!!

Merry Christmas 2012!!

Birthday Party for Jesus

This is a tradition that my parents did with my sister and I and I love continuing it with our girls!!  We played games, read the story of Jesus' birth, the kids brought "presents" to give to Jesus that they in turn gave to each other, and of course we had cupcakes and sang Happy Birthday to Jesus!  It was really neat.

On the ornament hunt!!

Examining ornaments!!

Getting ready to open presents!

Making the Nativity.

Sweet Molly!!  Look how much difference a year makes....

2011 Birthday Party for Jesus

Examining the presents.

I love my sweet baby!!!  She has gotten so much bigger...

2011

Christmas Prep 2012

So since we are way behind I am trying to slowly go back and update what we did for Christmas!  This is a lot of random things, but it is us getting ready for Christmas, going to the Zoo Lights, and going to our friend's house to celebrate Christmas with breakfast for dinner and our pj's!  It was a LOT of fun although apparently I didn't take a ton of pictures.  Here is what we have....

Getting the tree ready!!

Look what I found!!

A little decorating, Sarah Anne style!

Christmas lights!!!

Look at this lovely horse!!

Our sweet family of 3, about to be 4!!

Riding the carowheel!!

Being a monster

Bestest Friends!

Being silly!

I LOVE this sweet, precious girl!

Isaiah not sure what the girls are up to!!

Valentine's Day Preperation

So since we will have a 2 week old around Valentine's Day, we decided to go ahead and make Valentine's Day cards in a special tent!  It was actually really fun and took a large chunk of our morning, which when you start at 4:00 am is a VERY good thing!!  So, here is my girl working on her cards!!

SO EXCITED TO GET STARTED!!

I don't understand the face, but here is a heart card!

Working on the stickers....

My pretty girl

I LOVE YOU!!  (With an extra eye on her face)

A Bubby Card, which of course also has a note about how she will take care of him and hopes he doesn't fall.  That girl worries about her Bubby!!

Silly faces!!

And a special Amy Monster card!!

Pictures LONG overdue!!

So for the record, the blog told me I had posted too many pictures and I had to start paying in order to load more pictures.  I decided to try one more time, and today it wasn't an issue, so here is a little update on the Normans.  Our sweet Baby Becca will be born by next week, January 30th as that is when we are inducing. Sarah Anne could not be more thrilled, and neither could we!  We know it will be an adjustment, but we are so looking forward to this wonderful blessing that God is giving our sweet family!!  We had some Christmas/Maternity pictures taken in November by my sister's good friend Rian (https://www.facebook.com/RianBessinger).  She did an AMAZING job and I love how she captured our sweet girl!  So here are the pictures and look for updates soon for our new baby!!

I love my sweet family!!

Swinging high!!

Silly faces!!!

WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO??

Our sweet little family!

Just trying to climb a few little rocks!!

I love this beautiful precious girl that is going to make the best big sister EVER!!!!