Merry Christmas

We spent yesterday celebrating Christmas at Grandma Martin's and Aunt Kristi's. The girls had a great time even though it's like 2 degrees outside. They came away with a mountain of gifts as you can see by the photo with Alyssa standing next to the presents. We are experimenting with all the options on Holly's new camera. She lost her old one (conveniently) just the other week and told me she had to have a smaller better one.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING

We had an amazing dinner at my parents' house here in Champaign and tomorrow we are going to Springfield to visit Grandma Martin and Aunt Kristy and she is making another big dinner. Reese weighed in at 10 lbs. fully clothed this week at the Dr. office.

Trunk or Treat

These pictures are from this weekend's trunk or treat at the church. Bobby got Alyssa ready and I met them at the church. I said, "oh good you found my eyeliner to draw whiskers on her." He said, "no I just used a permanent marker!" Surprisingly it came off easily the next day with a little Mary Kay 3 in 1 cleanser. I"ll post more pictures from trick or treat tonight later.
Alyssa said thank you to every person after she got candy!

Today I took Alyssa out in sandals and Reese didn't have a coat! The temperature today was 45 degrees, so we headed to the store and Alyssa got shoes and Reese got this fabulous, warm snow suit.

The first two pictures I took today and below them are photos from Ken and Deanna's visit when we blessed Reese. She wore the blessing dress at three weeks old that Alyssa wore at 3 months old! Reese has really changed over the past couple days and is loosing that newborn look. She was 7 lbs. 11 oz. at her one month check up.

Bobby, Reese, Gary, Holly, Alyssa, Linda

Bobby loves his training. He comes home once or twice during the week for dinner which is a great break for me and it helps Alyssa not miss him so much.

Two proud Grandma's. Alyssa can't say "G" so she calls them "Ram"

Deanna, Bobby, Reese, Holly and Ken

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Princess Party

Today Alyssa went to her first birthday party. Her friend Camilla had a princess party to celebrate her third birthday. The girls made necklaces, decorated crowns, and of course ate a princess cake and pink ice cream. Here are some photos in their princess attire.