Lily's First Christmas!

We had a wonderful time this Christmas! We spent Christmas eve with Chris's parents and then we made the drive up to Sparta on Christmas morning to be with my family! Lily was cute opening presents. She didn't quite understand the concept of Christmas or Santa, but she got some things from Uncle Tony and Santa that she couldn't seem to keep her eyes off of. She loved her tea set from Santa and she loved her Little People airplane hanger from Uncle Tony and Aunt Amber. She also got some neat things from Aunt Angela from Korea. She got a neat board book of animals that's written in Korean. You should hear me trying to read it! I have included some pictures of Lily at my friend Annarose's house on Christmas. Believe it or not, we didn't get many pictures of her opening presents because we were putting it all on video- hopefully we will get around to posting that soon! Enjoy and Happy New Year to all!

Lily's first Snow

Over the past 24 hours we have had 2 feet of snow fall! This is the first snow we've had in Philadelphia this year so far. School has already been canceled for tomorrow and I thought that since I don't have to get to bed early, this is the perfect opportunity to update Lily's blog.

After the snow finally stopped 24 hours later, Chris was just ITCHING to take Lily out in it so she could see it and play in it for the first time. She is getting over a cold and I argued this with Chris, but his goofy smile prevailed as always! We bundled up Lily in a sleep and play, snow pants, and then finally put on her hat, mittens, and jacket. We put her snow boots on her, but they didn't fit in the makeshift sled that Chris made out of a tupperware container and twine...(Don't even ask my what the hell he was thinking!)

Lily lasted all of 2 minutes because she promptly fell out of the sled that Chris was pulling and landed face first in the snow- which Chris thought was hysterical... but to which I panicked and picked her up all dramatic and wiped all the snow off- she was fine- but she was no longer interested in the snow!

I think she will have more fun next year when she can walk and run in it....We hope everyone has a blessed Christmas and we look forward to being able to spend time with each other, (me and Chris), and with our families. We hope to get lots of pictures including pictures with Caren's dad who plays Santa every year-

Merry Christmas!

Lily with Santa!

Here are our Christmas pictures! Lily was great with Santa! I was worried that she would be afraid but she just looked and looked at him! She looked super cute in her Christmas dress with her beret! Check her out! TOO CUTE!

Lily on her stomach!

This morning we walked into Lily's room to wake her up and she was sleeping on her stomach for the first time since she was born! It was too cute to see! Lily is so close to crawling that Chris and I are getting excited. We had her on her stomach last night on the floor and she tries so hard to crawl to this stupid bunny she has! I'll take a video the minute she starts crawling!

Getting Ready for Christmas!

Hey everybody!

We're starting to get ready for Christmas and we're excited to be going to see Santa this weekend at Feeny's! I hope to have fun pictures to post on Sunday... so check back in for that. We are so excited that Angela is coming home and we can hardly wait to see her and spend some time with us! I'm hoping she will come up to Philly for a couple of days after Christmas. Chris and I are looking to buy a used SUV since we're starting to outgrow the Cobalt with Lily... We're not sure if that will go through, but we're looking. It's a start! I've enclosed a family picture that was taken at a studio for Christmas! Aren't we so CUTE?

Love to all!
The Gentiles