Matthew's Christmas Preparation

Well the Christmas season is upon us and we are having lots of fun preparing for Jesus' birthday! We are really trying to instill the TRUE meaning of Christmas with Matthew this year! We have an Advent wreath with candles and Matthew loves to light the candles each night at dinner time and say an Advent prayer with me or MeeMee! He will quickly remind us if we forget to light the candles! When he does a good deed or listens to us, he gets to put hay in the manger (part of the nativity scene) in preparation for Christmas morning when Jesus will appear. My mom has the Advent calendar up from when I was a kid. Matthew loves using it to count down the days the Christmas! We also feel so lucky that Matthew attends our church's preschool and gets to learn about Christmas there too!! He had his preschool program on Friday and did such a good job! He was so proud! Below are some photos!


Matthew's school program! it was very sweet. the kids were all so cute and did a great job singing their songs!
After the program

The Advent calendar that I had growing up! Matthew puts an ornament on the tree every morning... counting down the days to Christmas!

Matthew and I decorated a gingerbread house.. this is the finished product. That kiss was completely unsolicited! he did it all on his own!

Laney is 2 months!

So hard to believe that Laney is already 2 months old! The time is going way too fast! It makes me so sad!! I really want her to stay little forever! I brought her to the doctor on Tuesday and she is 10 lbs 13.5 oz and 23 1/4"!! She is just perfect! She had to get 3 shots which was so sad! She did not enjoy them!! As I am getting ready to leave the doctor, I realize that I had locked my keys in the car! UGH! I opened her door to get her out, locked the car and put the keys in my purse and set my purse on the floor of the car and grabbed the diaper bag but NOT my purse, then shut the door and headed into the doctor... not even realizing what I had done! UGH! Such a pain since our doctor's office is in Hudson! So my sister (who lives in Woodbury) came to my rescue, since I had a photo shoot at her neighbor's house that I was late for. Then my dad drove my spare set of keys over and drove me back to Hudson to get my car! What an ordeal!! But it all worked out! and like I said, we had another photo session with my dear friend Mary Burns! Such a fun afternoon! Hopefully we will get our Christmas cards soon so you can see the photos! Below is one of the priceless pics she took! I got her red velvet slippers to go with her Christmas dress and we couldn't resist taking the shot below. My little Christmas angel! :)