Thursday, December 30, 2010

Week of Christmas

Making a gingerbread house....


I'm not pointing any fingers but it appeared that as much candy was consumed as what was actually put on the house.

Auntie Serina came in for a visit and got to meet Noel for the first time....
She is expecting her own little girl this coming April =) We are so excited!!!

Got to watch some Christmas movies....
And of course, the presents....


All the cousins....
Baby Lincoln and Noel....


(Thanks Aunt Julie for this shot)

And I can't leave out (though I have no pictures) that Harvest held its first Christmas Eve service. It was awesome! We had a great week!

Thursday, December 16, 2010

December Days

Just some pics of the happs over the past week.... Aaron got to go with Daddy to a Phoenix Suns game and he had a blast. Someone had given us a hand-me-down Steve Nash jersey so he got to match Daddy....

Our friends had a bday party for Jesus that we got to go to....
Here is Aaron showing off his green cupcake mustache....
I took the kids out for a run for the first time. Kids did well and Mommy has a LOT of work to do.
Took the time to get some pictures of Noel smiling. And I couldn't just pick one picture so you get several shots.... =)


And just like her shirt says, she really loves to smile for Daddy....

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Visitors

We managed to get our Christmas decorating done after Thanksgiving. I'm always glad to get it up quickly so I can enjoy it longer!
Aaron is still doing a great job as a big brother. Noel is beginning to take a little more notice of her surroundings and I know that she will soon find Aaron fascinating to watch....
She has started smiling now, which is always special. It seems that most of them are for Daddy though we have all managed to get a few.... I haven't been able to capture one yet on camera....
I think it's so cool of God that one of the first developments for a baby is smiling!

Gi Gi S and Papa Tim came in from Florida this past weekend to meet Noel and visit.
We had lots of fun with them and stayed very busy. When Aaron was a brand new baby, we all took a trip to Build-A-Bear and Gi Gi and Papa got him his first teddy. They decided Noel needed one also....

Aaron brought his along also and got a guitar for him.
The finished product:
They had the outside area all set up for Christmas and fake snow falling - Aaron thought that was awesome!

We had Harvest's first Women's Christmas dinner and it was a really nice and fun evening out.
Noel came too and was very well behaved....
One bummer of the past few weeks is that we have been battling a terrible fungus known as thrush. Noel and I seemed to have kicked ours, but unfortunately, Lee got it very badly and is still dealing with it. It has been super painful, expensive, and frustrating to fight off. Amongst this, we've also had to fight off some colds, deal with my back, and an injury to Lee's knee - we are definitely ready to have our health back.

And for fun - a picture from one of our playdates with Brynn and Owen.....
Oh dear =)