Lingering Christmas Pics

Told ya she'd love the socks:)

Dr. Haas' wife Olga, her daughter, and her grandson and Marcy.
Christmas dress for prolly next winter

Marcy

I wanted to take some photos of Marcy in front of the tree. She cooperated a little bit. Strangest thing: she is the smile-iest baby around...until the camera comes out. I had to sneak attack her with the camera and this is the best I got.

Trees

I LOOOVE Christmas trees. I mostly love the smell but also I love decorating them and just staring at them--they make beautiful night lights (could I use that as an excuse to keep it up all year? :)

This year was the first year that I got to have my very own Christmas tree and lemme tell ya--its a doozy! I had been begging Joey to let us get a tree immediately when we got back from Wisconsin but he said we had to wait at least until we were into December a ways. I pouted and dropped the issue.

On the evening of December the 1st I was teaching catechism at church. This gave Joey the perfect chance to sneak in a tree. Normally-I am NEVER gone, especially in the evenings so he took advantage of the situation. Anyway-I arrived home at sometime later that evening and opted against the stairs. When the elevator doors opened up to our floor I was SO excited to see buckets of needles outside the doors. I traipsed down the hallway following a trail of needles:) I am quite sure that I felt how Hansel and Gretel felt as they tracked the cookie crumbs. To my dismay the trail stopped at the apartment just before mine. I sadly opened the door but SURPRISE he had gotten me a 7 ft tall Christmas tree:) We then let Christmas descend upon our humble abode. Since we don't decorate seasonally we are rather proud of our decor this year!! We also hung a wreath on our door, a festive candle on a side table, bought a poinsettia plant, and I made an arrangement for our mantle. Maybe it will someday inspire me to decorate for other seasonal holidays? I doubt it.

We wrapped a plastic bag full of socks for Marcy to open.

She LOVES crinkley things so we're pretty sure she'll love it!
We could not get her to smile!

Photo Drop

I think that these aren't just the start of the pictures...these will be the end. If you would like more of your own particular child or event contact Erika at joeyanderikawalcott@yahoo.com :)

I was just going to post one or two and then I got on a role :) So without further ado---Thanksristmasunko:) Not quite as good as my Birth-a-Versary huh:)





















Since I can't figure out how to make a picture slide show I have to include pictures in linear format. Grr.

We're Back in Business

Hello-after a wonderful trip home to Wisconsin we've finally made it back home here. We have about a bajillion pictures so I'll start posting them in clumps. It was GREAT to see everyone on all sides! Marcy did awesome in the car both ways (in part to her new roomy car seat) and in part to...maybe tylenol? No she just played the whole time while we all got really really sick of driving. More later.