Christmas #3

This year is our second Christmas with Adeline and it gets better and better! Here is Adeline and I last year on Christmas. She was such a tiny little thing!

This year was a totally different experience for us. Even by the third Christmas celebration this year Adeline still wasn't getting into opening gifts.

Had to give Marie some attention!

 

Adeline's Ornament from last year

Adeline's Ornament from this year

We also made handprint ornaments!

Christmas #2

Since Adeline is still to young to really get excited about Christmas Morning or Santa we decided to head to Newport to be with my family for Christmas Day. We got there pretty early and had a bit of breakfast before digging into the presents. Adeline wasn't interested in opening presents really, just played with the toys that were already open.

Adeline loves her crazy Uncle Scott!

Gift Opening

Adeline got her first pink camo outfit!

Adeline got a Trike for her big Christmas gift - I can't wait to take her out in it. I really researched the various trikes out there that grow with babies. This one was the best that I could find in the price range we were looking for.

She loves it already

Alan enjoying his books he got for Christmas!

Beautiful

Adeline got a couple Matilda Jane dresses for Christmas. If you've never heard of Matilda Jane, you are missing out! They are soo cute! Adeline got the Nora (seen below) and the Firefly Knot Dress.

After all the Christmas presents, what toy does she want to play with?? Toys from when Scott and I were kids! She loves the barn and Little People. It's amazing how different Little People are now from then.

Here is the whole gang from Christmas!

Our Little Family

Christmas #1

This year we did Christmas a little bit different. Since we have Adeline now I didn't want to be rushed around on Christmas Day to two different Christmas' and dinners. So this year we spent Christmas Eve with Alan's parents and Grandmother, Lucile. We had a great time and enjoyed being able to relax and not be rushed to get somewhere!

Adeline got a table/chairs/storage bins from her Grandpa for Christmas. It's great having such a talented grandpa! I showed Grandpa THIS table I wanted for Adeline and he did great duplicating minus the paper roll at the end. It's great because this table can grow with her. The chairs aren't really made to match, and she'll get nicer chairs once she is older that will match!

Adeline's first attempt at coloring with Crayons with grandpa!

Then she had fun playing with all her new toys and rolling around on the floor.

Nana got this doll and said it looked like Adeline!

Nana made her an owl blanket

Happy daddy watching Adeline play

Brush our teeth....

Family!

Hotel Roanoke - Christmas Trees

This past week the playgroup Adeline and I are in met at Hotel Roanoke to look at all the Christmas Trees they had on display. They have 27 Christmas trees  (click to see all trees in a slideshow) decorated throughout the hotel. Here are a few that we saw:

We didn't make it around to all of the trees and a couple I didn't get a picture of. But they were all great. The purple tree in the upper right hand corner was dedicated to a local girl fighting cancer, they asked everyone to write their name on an ornament and place it on the tree. We placed an ornament with our group name on it.

Then I had to take some pictures of Adeline in front of the big tree in the lobby.