The Happiest Time of the Year

The heating debacle is, hopefully, behind us now and we're settling in to our cozied up house. Unfortunately, there are still one or two glitches to work out and parts of the house feel like the Sahara. Needless to say, I am oh so happy to have the workmen out of the house! In addition to all of the ruckus going on, we've been pretty busy preparing for the holidays. CJ and I continue to work on melding the traditions of our 2 families into the new one we've created with Collin. Sometimes this has been a delicate task, but I think we've done a good job of it so far. We'll be doing Christmas Eve at our place and Christmas Day at his mom's house.

So, some of the fun stuff we've been up to....

More Christmas pictures! The ever elusive toothy grin from Collin has still not made an appearance. Since this is the case, I might go with this shot on our Shutterfly card... I just think it kind of shows his quirky side.


I'm still not too sure, but time is getting away from me now and I need to order.









While we were taking these pictures at a local tree farm Collin also had his first chance to ride a John Deer lawn mower (or some kind of truck)...kid size, of course. He could not get enough of that thing!! He looked like such a little farmer in his plaid shirt! I have to give the kid some credit because he has been a good sport about me dragging him all over the place to take his picture.






It's going to be another crazy week around here again. Our new part-time nanny is starting and there are errands galore to run....including planning the big birthday bash for Collin! I'm finding it hard to believe that he will be 1 in just a couple of weeks. In some ways it feels like it was just yesterday that he was born and in others it feels like a decade has passed!