Happy New Year!

Matt and I count 2008 as our most Blessed year. We look forward to what 2009 will bring!

Celebrating our first Christmas with Alexa and CJ was very special and extremely fun. They are both growing so fast and getting to the age where they are more interactive. Each day seems to bring a new mannerism of trick, if you will. While CJ was raspberrying for a while, she has since tossed that over for the squeal of delight. Alexa on the other hand has discovered the joys of quickly shaking her head no and in the last 2 days she's started doing this funny sniffing thing while scrunching up her face.

They have also started discovering each other more. An especially cute moment happened at Christmas dinner at The Campbell's house where CJ's squeal of delight caught Alexa's attention.

We spent Christmas eve with the Alsup clan. Thankfully the temperatures were unseasonably warm, since we had a snafu and Alexa had to ditch her pants. By the time the temperatures had cooled, she'd opened a precious gift from her Aunt Kelly and Uncle Patrick and had cute little overalls to put on. Then Uncle Patrick saw to entertainment. She also spent some quality time banging on her new Leap Frog drum her Oma and Poppy gave to her!

On Christmas day, we slept in a little bit and then enjoyed Christmas morning at home where Alexa got to jump in her new jumper, which her Granny (my mom) gave to us early so she could have it in the morning. Then my mom came by to exchange presents, before we all headed to The Campbell home for fun and dinner. Yummy dinner.

Since I usually spend half an hour trying to get the photos in line and end up failing miserably, I'm going to just post them below with little snippets of what they are.

Christmas Eve:

Oma and Alexa having some fun.


Alexa opening her first Christmas gift.


Uncle Patrick "flying" Alexa in her new overalls.



Christmas Day:
She had plenty of fun jumping in her jumperoo.


Granny and Alexa having some Christmas day fun.


Smiley and his Christmas camera.



New Year's Eve:

Alexa in her "little black dress" compliments of Granny.


Matt and Alexa "sniffing". Well, she WAS sniffing until she saw the camera, then she started mugging, like always.


Matt and I rang in the New Year together while Miss Alexa slept snuggled in her bed, upstairs.