We spent New Year's Eve with the Barnette's. We went bowling, set off fireworks, celebrated Brian's birthday, played games, and in general had a wonderful time.
It was Lilly's first time bowling and she loved it.
Three i-touches, three happy people sharing apps.
On New Years Day we had our traditional eggnog french toast and bacon brunch. We like to start the year out healthy.
While we didn't get any photos at my mom's house, I did score some pretty sweet video of everyone saying Merry Christmas.
How did I get such awesome video since I was without my camera you ask? Well it's because Scott gave us this sweet bloggie HD video camera Christmas day. It has a USB port that pops out of it, so I just stuck into my computer to upload the video.
My mom showered us with presents. We all got new PJs, lovely bath products, gift certificates, and many treats, adorable outfits for the kids and a special robe for Lilly (her secret Christmas wish). My mom even threw in some Sarah Jane art which was on my Christmas wish list.
See this sweet bag? My mom made that. That's right before all you crazy blogging sewers became cool my mom spent many of her days sewing. She brought out the machine during her hectic schedule of school and work to make this lovely grocery bag. One for my sister and one for myself. Then my mom filled the bag with goodies!
In order to meet all of our emotional needs she made her classic cheese ball, cookie plate, funeral potatoes, and provided a home cooked Christmas feast.
I wish I had taken pictures so we had more tangible memories. I stole this picture from Jessamyn's blog just so you could get a glimpse of the decor. Doesn't it look like a magazine?
Yes mom, all of our emotional needs were met during this lovely holiday. Check out how happy Jack was during the Christmas fun.
My sister has inspired me to recap my holidays (I used some of her pictures).
We started with a trip to my Dad's house on the 22. We reunited with Brian, Jessamyn, Johnny, and of course my dad.
We hung out around the house, watched movies and ate candy. That evening my dad took us (minus children!) to La Bergerie, a delicious French restaurant.
Christmas morning Lilly was greeted with a pillow pet unicorn from Santa and Jack found a drum filled with instruments, also from Santa.
We had an old timey piano party/sing along in our PJs(with those willing to participate).
Christmas afternoon we went to visit my mom and Scott. Sadly no pictures were taken while we were there. We got awesome presents and had delicious Christmas dinner! The visit was too short.
We traveled back to PA (that's for you Aunt Pat) to have the Pitcavage family Christmas party. Jack was sick and actually fell asleep on the floor. I also did not take any pictures, these are from my sister in law.
Lilly with some of her cousins.
More presents, food, and cookies galore. It was quite the eventful Christmas!
I spent the first three years of Lilly's life telling people she was a girl. You see, she had no hair for a really long time. Now it looks like we are back to square 1. Mission: make sure everyone knows Lilly is a girl.
It is very distressing. In terms of life and death, illness, and tragedy, this is clearly no big deal. In terms of normal life stuff, this is a big deal! My poor little girl chopped off her hair that took her YEARS to grow.
I put some magnetic earrings on her, and I am considering piercing her ears to really drive home the girl thing.
