Happy New Year! (A bit late)

How is it that I haven't updated since before Christmas?

To be honest; I ended my 365 days project in mid-November and I've been neglecting my camera ever since. (And I suppose it doesn't help that Ryan and I used our Christmas Gift Money to purchase a video recorder, which I've used plenty since then, but mostly only for silly useless stuff! Like five minutes of me cleaning out my car. SERIOUSLY. No one wants to see that.)

I suppose I'll jump back in quickly. I'll start with some of our Christmas Photos... (Thsi could be long - I hope you're comfortably seated!)

Ryan was late getting home. His truck broke down outside of Las Vegas, and he had to wait for another driver to pick him up, unload his truck, and drive him home! (He blew a turbo which sucked oil into the engine and into a fancy schmancy emissions filter. Expensive, 3 week long repair job.) So he got to Denver at 10pm on December 23!! (And still had some Christmas Shopping to do! *eek*)

While we were waiting for Ryan to arrive on the 23rd, we met my friend Jamie and her son Devin in Denver at Casa Bonita! It was a lot of fun, and Skyler and Devin had a blast playing together! They kept hugging and spinning in circles. It was adorable.

Christmas Eve was pretty exciting, with lots of cooking (Chicken Tortilla Soup and Quesadillas) and shopping (Ryan)

After Dinner, Skyler picked two cookies (a snowman and a snowflake) to decorate for Santa

She also got to open one present on Christmas Eve! (We always get her new jammies to wear to bed) I snapped a photo of her with her new Jammies, her santa cookies and milk and letter - just before bed.

Which speaking of bed! Christmas Eve was also her first night to sleep in her "Big Girl Bed"!! (Daddy took the front off her crib.)

I'll end there for now - be sure to check back tomorrow for our next Christmas Adventure Post!

"All Aboard!"

Does anyone remember this baby?

Wasn't she so cute??




What about this little twerp?

And now this year? As I've taken a photo for a 3rd year, I feel a bit guilty. See, I have trapped my father in law into the fact that he needs to keep this train around - at least until Skyler is married. (Hmm - maybe the first Christmas she is married I can get a picture of her and her new husband with the train?)

Happy Thanksgiving! (A bit late!!)

I lost my Camera Mojo... Luckily, I've finally crawled out from under my rock and started to edit my photos from our Thanksgiving in Lincoln. I thought I'd share a few of my favorites with you!

Nutcracker Skyler:

Singing Skyler

Storytime Skyler

Piano Playing Aunt Katie

 

Skyler's New Best Friend

Elfred Jingle

This holiday season, we have a visitor in our house!!

His name is Elfred Jingle, and he's visiting from the North Pole! Santa had picked our family to house an Elf in Training!! (If we take extra good care of him, he'll pass his E.L.F. tests at the North Pole and be a full blown Elf!! Then he will get to return to us every year!)

Elfred reports to the North Pole every night while we are asleep, telling Santa if Skyler has been a good girl, and then returns to our house before we wake up!

 

He arrived early in the morning on December 1st, with a letter from Mrs. Claus and an advent calendar for Skyler!

So far he's done a pretty wide variety of things, including baking cookies over night (ginger snaps) and playing with Skyler's toys. She must have been especially good yesterday, because he arrived with a sticker album and three sheets of stickers! 

**Elfred is similar to, but not part of the Elf on the Shelf program.