Baking with Nana!

That Nana bakes the best cookies!  Looks like she's passing some of her secrets on to Joshua and Alyssa!

Go Irish, Beat the Tide!

Woulda, coulda, shoulda... at least they all look GREAT in their Irish Gear!!

Somebody's Getting Bigger!

In case you haven't been paying attention, Emily is growing!!  All that eating and sleeping is putting some meat on those bones!  Here are some more recent pictures of her in the bathtub! She may not smile, but she is starting to like her bath...

Merry Christmas... for Real!!

Here are the pictures for the REAL Christmas Day!  We were lucky enough to celebrate Christmas three or four times this year with all our guests!  We all had a great Christmas Day... including Emily for her first Christmas!

Joshua, Snoopy, and Purple Monkey on Christmas morning!


Wow!


Joshua and his new crane!


Alyssa and Ariel!


Alyssa checking out her stocking...


Joshua opening his stocking...


Is there anything left, Alyssa?


Merry Christmas, buddy!


Merry Christmas, Emily!!


Christmas smiles!


Christmas giggles!


Christmas tongue?!


Now there's a Christmas smile!


Joshua and his new firetruck!


Alyssa and her magic wand... watch out, you'll end up under her spell!!


Out of the way!  There's a fire to be put out!


Merry Christmas, Alyssa!


Sitting by the Christmas tree waiting to open some more presents...


Legos!!!!





More gifts?!


More smiles in some good-lookin' Christmas pajamas!


Emily had a very good day!


Merry Christmas, Mom!  Those are some nice earrings!


Skype with Jenn and Uncle Andy... but where are they?!


There they are!


Merry Christmas Jenn and Andy!

The Stockings Were Hung by the Chimney with Care...

Well we must have some pretty good kids!  That Santa stopped by our house and left some pretty great gifts!  Here's what we all woke up to on Christmas morning...

Getting Ready for Santa!

Joshua and Alyssa worked hard to make preparations for Santa and his reindeer this year!  They must have done a good job because the cookies and reindeer food were gone by the next morning!

In case you didn't know, the reindeer usually hang out on the front lawn while Santa's in the house doing his thing...


Joshua dumpin out his reindeer food...


Cookies for Santa!


Lucky Santa!


Good work, guys!


With cookies like that, Santa would be crazy not to come back next year!


The funny thing is that Alyssa was quite upset the next morning when the cookies were gone.  All Christmas morning we kept hearing about Santa eating all the cookies!