Holiday Times

Our poor camera is loaded with pictures and I'm way behind on updates. But I'm going to make an attempt to catch everyone up.


Thanksgiving was a lot of fun. We got both sides of the family together at our house. It's so nice to get to share Thanksgiving with both of our families! Alexa even got to meet her Aunt (cousin) Deborah, who just stole all her sugars!







We all ate way too much and poor Buckley was exhausted from chasing everyone around and begging for food. We slept super well that night.

Speaking of sleep... We've been getting a pretty good amount of it around here lately. Alexa has been going 9-12 hours between feedings at night. She averages 10 hours straight. And once she's eaten in the morning, she's usually ready to go on back to bed for another couple of hours. Seems like maybe she is taking after her daddy's need for sleep. You'll get no complaints out of me!

This past weekend, on the 13th, my very sweet and beautiful cousin, Megan got married. It was a beautiful wedding and we enjoyed the short trip very much. Mom, Lisa, Christabelle, Smiley and Dale made the trip too. Here's a cute picture of mom with Lisa and CJ. CJ was wearing the most precious little cap! Alexa spent most of the ceremony chewing on her shiny black shoe. She's so enamoured with them, I figured what doesn't hurt her will only make her stronger. Then we got to enjoy a small family reunion and yummy dinner in celebration of the union. It was so nice to see our family. Some whom we haven't seen in many years. Hopefully we'll be able to see each other again before so many years have passed!

Alexa's great-grandmother (Matt's grandmother) celebrated her 99th birthday on Wednesday and Alexa went to share a round of hugs and kisses with her great-granny. It was fun to see the two of them together. She's a very blessed little girl to still have two great-grandmothers and a great grand-father still here to share her hugs and kisses!

On Thursday her Oma had surgery and she was filled with excitement all day because I kept telling her we were going to see her Oma and give her a kiss that evening. We are so thankful everything went well. When we got there to visit, it turned out her hospital room was the one next door to ours when we had Alexa in July. And we got there just in time for a meeting with Santa! That's right, Santa. He and the Chik-fil-a cow (dressed in santa gear) came around to see everyone. We managed to snap a picture of them together with my cell phone.