Christmas Celebrations

Our first celebration was on the 21st with the Obermayer family!

My Grandma with her 8 great-grandchildren!

My little family! :)

Christmas Eve (day) with Nate's Parents and the Misiunas Family!

Christmas Eve (night) making cookies for Santa and watching Charlie Brown!

On Christmas Day we opened presents at home in the morning. Nate went to work and us girls celebrated with the Puzzello's the rest of the day!

Santa came! ;)

Jade with her gifts!

Jemma with her gifts!

Me and my big girl!

Cutie pie! :)

Jade and Cora got matching dolls from Great Grandpa and Aunt Mar!

Christmas on the 27th with my parents!

 All the kids in their new jammies ready for presents!

Jemma and Cruz! He is beyond sweet with her!

Traditional pizza dinner at Nick's Pizza & Pub!

Mom cooked a Christmas dinner for us the next day!

All the grandkids with Grammy and Grampy (borrowed picture) :)

Whew, what a fun and blessed week!

Christmas Recap

My work Holiday Party at the Bentley Gold Coast Auto Museum

Cool Baker Tilly ice sculpture.

With a Bugatti!

My buddies Emily and Brandon!

Visiting Santa at the Bass Pro Shop

The carousal is always a favorite!

No tears this time!

Driving around and looking at Christmas lights

We found a website with the top houses to see in Naperville. So we mapped out the 11 nearest to our house and drove to them. Some were repeats from last year!

Jade really got into the lights this year. So fun to see!

Quick milkshake stop!

Jemma was all smiles when we got home, must be because she slept through the whole tour! :)

Arizona Weekend

We had such a great trip to Arizona last weekend! I absolutely loved watching my girls interact with their cousins. Jade was so happy to be running around and playing with them for 3 days straight and Jemma was all smiles for them! 

Our plane was pretty empty on the way there. Jemma and I lucked out and got our own row! Nate joined us later Saturday evening on a different flight!

Snoozin' on her first flight!

Lunch at Wendy's on the way home from the airport!

The kids spent the day playing non-stop!

Grammy with her 2 year old's before dinner at Outback!

The early risers enjoyed watching Paw Patrol.

Twins for the day!

Grampy with his 2 year old's!

Jemma with her biggest cousins! Both boys were so sweet with her!

Sweet Coco even loved holding Jemma and held her for quite a while!

Some Grammy/Grampy time before bed!

Grammy and Grampy got all the kids to bed while Roger and Nate were out watching MNF and Alison and I were at craft night at the kid's school. 

A big thanks to the Baum family for opening up their home to us, we had so much fun! Can't wait for the next visit! :)

Jemma - 3 months

I can't believe my little peanut turned 3 months old last weekend. She has grown so much this month and is now taking 5-6 oz bottles every 3-3.5 hours. I can't wait to find out (in another month) how much she weighs! :) She goes to bed around 8:30 and wakes up for the day around 7:15. She's still napping about 3 times a day with a little catnap between dinner and bedtime. She took her first out of state trip this month, which was a trip to Arizona to see my sister and her family. She did amazing on both of the flights and seemed to have no trouble adjusting to the change in schedule and time zone. This little girl has stolen our hearts, we are truly blessed!

Thanksgiving

Here are a few pictures from our Thanksgiving celebration. Nate had to work until 3:00 p.m. so the girls and I went to my Grandpa's house and celebrated there with him, my parents and my Aunt Mar. Nate was able to swing by his Aunt's house in Orland Park after work, just in time for dinner! :) 

One of my favorite pictures. So thankful for these two girls!

Jade with Aunt Mar!

The girls and I with my Grandpa and their Great Grandpa!

Putting up the Christmas Tree

On the Wednesday before Thanksgiving we put up our Christmas tree. Usually I like to wait until after Thanksgiving, but since we were leaving for Arizona the following Saturday, our options were limited!

Jade was a big help getting out the decorations!

The traditional snacks. Nate and I both look forward to this tradition every year. Jade really seemed to like them this year too!

Jade also expressed a lot of interest in putting on the ornaments! She did a great job hanging most of the non-breakable ones. Hers tended to slip off the branches occasionally! ;)

Nate's parking lot of car ornaments!

Jemma hanging out under the Christmas tree!

The finished tree!

Kid Update

Things have been busy around the house, and I realized it has been quite a while since I updated the blog! I have been loving my last few weeks of being home everyday! We have also been enjoying daddy's last few weeks working day shift. Beginning in December he switches back to the dreaded afternoon shift (3 p.m. - 11 p.m.).  But enough about that. Here is a little kid update!

Jade successfully completed her 2nd potty chart and enjoyed a fun lunch at the All Aboard Diner! She had macaroni, fruit and of course ice cream!

 

Jade has been asking a lot about school and indicating she should like to go. I think this would be so wonderful for her! Good thing I started looking into it now. Who knew you had to register for next year in just a few weeks!?! We toured a Lutheran Preschool last week, and Jade and I both loved it. I'm praying there will be an opening for her to attend next year!

 

Jemma had her follow up weight check about a week and a half ago. She gained 1 pound exactly in the two weeks between visits. The doctor was pleased with that and expressed no other concerns. We now wake Jemma up around 5:00 a.m. for an extra feeding that she was "missing" before. Little angel usually goes right back to sleep for us until around 7:30.

 

 

Jemma continues to be a dream baby. While this doesn't happen as often anymore, as I usually put her down for her naps, she still finds comfort in holding my hair. Melts my heart every time. :)