Holidays 2012

Jeremy and I were very excited to celebrate Thanksgiving and Christmas this year (2012). It was Grace & Lily's first Thanksgiving & Christmas and its just a lot of fun preparing for both holidays. We had family in town for Thanksgiving and the girls really enjoyed spending time with their Grandma, Grandpa Ken, Aunt Katelyn, soon to be Uncle Jerod and their Gramps.

The girls had another play date with their neighborhood friends! They all wore their Christmas PJs! Too cute! 

They also met a lot of new family members in December. It was their Bisnonna's (Great Grandmother) 80th birthday on 12/18/12 and so the whole family came into town to surprise Nonna for her birthday. They met lots of great aunts, great uncles & cousins! It was a lot of fun. Because the party was the week before Christmas, we were lucky enough to have my whole family in town and celebrate Christmas early for the kids.

We spent Christmas here in Raleigh for the first time in almost 10 years! The girls had a wonderful Christmas complete with LOTS of toys from Santa, their grandparents, aunts, uncles, etc! There was absolutely no shortage of presents to open over here. We are truly blessed.

 

We had some family photos taken by our friend, neighbor & talented photographer, Whitney Bailey. The first session was done at our home and then the second session was at Joyner Park in Wake Forest. We love them. First Session: *Lily has the black & white polka dot head band, Grace has the red head band.* Second Session: *Lily is in the pink top, Grace is in the brown cardigan.*

Catching up...Fall 2012

Happy New Year, friends and family! We're having to play catch up yet again. Has it really been since October 30th that we posted last? Time is flying that's for sure. I won't attempt to document every single moment since October. Obviously the girls enjoyed their first Halloween dressed up as little pumpkins. It was a cold night so we didn't take them outside for very long. We visited with some neighbors and handed out lots of candy! Grace & Lily took turns taking naps that evening so that's why you will see some photos of us with just one baby here and there. It was fun dressing them up! We also live in a great neighborhood filled with little baby friends and so the girls periodically get together for playdates---as you will see below!

We also took the girls to the pumpkin patch to find some pumpkins. We may have enjoyed this more than they did but it proved to be a good spot for photos.