Spaghetti and Baths go together!

I can't belive our little girl is already eating table foods.  Tonight was her first night eating spaghetti and she thought it was AWESOME!

 

This is the before...

During...

 

YUM!

AND after....  then off to the bathtub!

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas everyone! I hope you had a wonderful time with family and friends. We were able to see many of our family members and spent time with Julia's grandpas and grandmas.

 

First, we went to Aunt Susan's house for the Didrikson family Christmas (Sunday night). There were lots of kids there this year!  Gavin was the oldest of the great-grandkids that were there. 

Here are a bunch of them playing together in the kitchen.

 



Jonas and Julia

 



Santa even came to Susan's to visit with everyone.  Julia was still not sure what to think of that guy.

Gavin was so good with Santa.  He made sure to tell Santa that he would be at Grandpa and Grandma Lee's for Christmas.  

The Lee family with Santa.

 

Julia has started to play with her hair when she is tired.  There were a lot of late nights for Miss Julia, but she did really well.

Mommy, Julia and Daddy at Emmett's house for the Lee family Christmas after the Christmas Eve service at Concordia.

 

 The cousins playing with toys before we open gifts at the Lee Christmas!

 

 Julia just loved all her dolls that she got for Christmas!  It is so cute when she gives them hugs and kisses!

 

The Lee Boys ready to open gifts from Santa! 

Julia didn't quite know what to do with all her gifts! 

 She did love all the paper, boxes and bows!

 

 The grandkids had to help Grandma Lee open her big gift!

 

 Thank you Santa, for all the nice gifts!

 



 Julia decided to climb on the presents at Grandma and Grandpa Rudebusch's house so she could get to the tree! : )

 

 Wow, that is a lot of gifts to open!

 

Wow, this makes noise when I push the buttons!

 

Thank you everyone for the very nice gifts! We were very spoiled by our family! 

It was wonderful to spend time with everyone! What a blessing it is to be able to spend precious time with family.  It goes so fast.

 

We enjoyed some time at home over a long weekend before we are back to work tomorrow.  It was nice to have some time to put away gifts, wash clothes and organize/clean the house a bit! 

 

HAPPY NEW YEAR!  We hope 2013 is good to you!

Julia meets Santa!!!!

 On Saturday, we went to the Hutch Mall to see Santa.  We also were lucky enough to see Santa's horse at Runnings!

 Hi Santa!!

 

Smile, Say Rudolph!!

 

 Mommy, This guy is funny looking.

 

Santa's horse.  His name is Frosty.

 



I'm not sure about this horse.

 

After Thanksgiving

We took some pics with Grandma and Grandpa Lee and the grandkids for a Christmas card, but I can't post them since the picture shouldn't be revealed til it hits the mailbox.  : )  It turned out pretty darn cute, though!

 

Here are a couple pics from Saturday night.  We spent the day with Grandma and Grandpa Lee, Garrett, Cilla, Gavin and Carson.  Fun times!

 

Happy Turkey Day!

We have so much to be thankful for this year!  Thanks be to God!  We sure miss Jeff though.

 

 We got to Skype with Jeff on Thanksgiving morning (it was Thursday night for him). 

 There's Daddy!

 Julia was such a good little girl and enjoyed seeing all of her family!

 "Cheese!"

 Grandma even let Gus get in on the Thanksgiving goodness a little bit! Oh dear!

 Great-Grandma just loves Julia!  So precious!

 Grandma and Grandpa sure love their little girl!

 Cousins... no they were not watching the game, just slapping Emmett's TV and pushing buttons! : )

"Emilee, let me show you what to push!!"



Busy Girl!

Wow, what a busy little girl we have.  She is getting into everything. Gotta love it, right!?!

 She loves "Puffs." 

 She loves them THIS much (as she shovels them in her mouth!)

 Julia and Gus play together now.  It is fun to watch them play tug o war!

 This little girl managed to open up Gus' kennel.  She found his water dish to play in!  She was pretty intrigued!

 Splish, splash!

She pulls herself up on everything. This week she has started to open and close the cabinet doors in the kitchen. Watch out for pinched fingers!

We'll Miss You Daddy!

We had to say "good-bye" to Daddy this morning. Obviously Julia didn't know what was going on, but Mommy did.  We'll miss you Daddy and we hope that you have a safe trip.  Can't wait for you to come home again.

The pic is not very good quality but cute of Jeff and Julia.

 

I took this picture of Julia before I took her into daycare this am.  Jeff usually brought her to daycare so now Mommy does drop off and pick up.  What a happy little girl! We are so thankful for a healthy, beautiful baby!