Christmas... and Noelle's Favorite Present

We had a wonderful and mellow Christmas. Christmas Eve was at my parent's house with my dad's side of the family. We spent Christmas morning at home, breakfast at my parents and then headed to Temecula to have dinner with the extended family.




Uncle Brian and Great Grandma got this "jump jump" for Noelle. Boy, does she love it. Brian downloaded some videos to youtube so I thought I'd embed one. This isn't of her jumping as much but it was really cute. I didn't know that she could count this high. She's always amazing me.

ABCs

She is one smart cookie!

5 Year Anniversary

This weekend Ryan and I got away for our 5th Anniversary. We headed up to Big Bear and stayed at the Knickerbocker Mansion Bed and Breakfast. It was a pretty amazing cabin, one of few built with vertical logs, with excellent food. It was a pretty mellow weekend as skiing, sledding, etc. are out for me but we actually found plenty to do and enjoyed the little village. The weather couldn't have been better. It had snowed the weekend before, so was covered in snow and yet sunny and warm during the day. Every anniversary we have the opportunity to reflect upon how faithful God has been to us in changing us and drawing us together. We also kept thinking about Noelle and all the funny things she say/does and the reality that we will soon have TWO little girls running around. Another girl... we can't believe it. Oh the fun we are going to have with these two little ones. I'm only 19 weeks pregnant but I'm already ready for her to be here :). She's already kicking around in my belly - I'm predicting another busy one!

Boo Boo

Noelle was playing, turned around and lost her balance and bent forward right into the corner of the toy box. It really wasn't too bad as far as boo boo's go but we got this great picture so I'm posting it. For the week or so after she would see her reflection and make me kiss the boo boo and she felt very important when we put "corbin" (that's what she calls neosporin) on it.