Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!!!

On New Year's Eve we headed up to Cleveland to celebrate Christmas with Daddy's family.  When we got to Grandma and Papa's we got to open presents.

Reagan had a lot of fun with her presents and even tried to eat the paper.

Chase got a guitar.

I got the Angry Birds game.

After presents we went over to Uncle Ryan and Aunt Liza's to celebrate NYE.  Aunt Liza had all the supplies for us to make party hats.  Grandma brought stuff for us to make and edible craft.

After dinner Aunt Liza brought out the chocolate fondue.  Chase LOVED it!

We also opened presents.  Amazingly we were asleep at Grandma and Papa's before midnight.

On New Year's Day everyone came over to Grandma's for dinner.  Chase even said the Blessing with his new microphone.

Today we put away all of our Christmas decorations and took down our tree......at least we had fun playing in the snow!

Post-Christmas, Pre-New Year

Daddy is off this week.  Mom has to work Wednesday - Friday, but this is her last week of work!

Monday- On Monday we were brave and went out shopping.  In the afternoon I went to Hogan's house and Chase played lacrosse with mom and dad.

Tuesday- On Tuesday Grandma and Papa came down to see what we got for Christmas.  We all went out to the movies to see the Muppets.  After the movie we gave them their presents.

Later Grandma, Grandpa and Uncle Jack came for dinner.  Uncle Jack stayed with us because he had to fly back to NY the next day.  Dad and Uncle Jack got his old Sega video game working for us :)

Wednesday- Mom had to go back to work.  Dad actually had to go work the basketball game as well, so Cousin Alex came over to watch us.  We were VERY wild, but we all survived.

Thursday- On Thursday we went to the Y with Dad.  Afterwards we went to get some popcorn for mom to surprise her.  We surprised her with an office visit and we went out to lunch.  That night mom and dad took us to see the Globetrotters! We had a blast!

Friday- On Friday mom had her last day of work.  Thankfully she got to leave early and Chase and I were so excited when she got home!  That night I got to spend the night at Hogan's.

That is how we filled our time between Christmas and New Year's Eve!

Christmas Day!

Merry Christmas!

We pulled it out in the end and made the 'Nice' list.  Can you you believe all that Santa brought us?

The Francesco car is AWESOME; however Chase ran into the tree and Reagan, so it is officially an outside toy now!

Reagan got a little kitchen and a Buckeye cheerleader outfit.  She also got her first doll from mom and dad.

Chase got a trash truck and a Scooby Doo mansion with Goo.

I got the Big Ten football helmets and  a football game for my Leap Pad.

After playing with our gifts, we packed up and headed to Grandma and Grandpa's.  We ate lunch and then opened more presents!

Uncle Jack got me this HUGE dinosaur.  I love to sleep with it.

Chase got a BIG truck full of cars.

Grandma and Grandpa gave me a new bike and Chase got Scooby Doo Pirates which he really, really wanted.

After Reagan woke up from her nap, she got presents too.

It sure was a Great Christmas!  Thanks Everybody!

Christmas Eve

On Christmas Eve we got dressed up for church.  It was a fun family service.  Chase and I put on animal costumes, but we were too scared to go up front.

After church we watched the Smurfs.  When that was over we spread our reindeer food and set out cookies and milk for Santa.  I hope he was hungry!

We read The Night Before Christmas and the Nativity story before going to bed.  We were asleep within minutes!

Breakfast & Baptism

Last weekend we had breakfast with Santa!

Chase and I told Santa what we wanted.  Reags didn't cry, but she was pulling Santa's beard.

We had pancakes and sausage and then got to make some crafts.  It was really fun!

The next day Reagan got baptized. 

She did great and didn't cry at all.

She really wanted to celebrate with some cake....

Christmas Program

Mommy told us some Big news- after Christmas she is going to be staying home with us- no more daycare!  We are super excited to be able to hang with mommy every day!

We had our annual school Christmas concert recently.  Grandma, Grandpa, Grandma and Papa all came.

Chase's class wore elves hats while singing.

After performing we had cookies and punch in his classroom and he gave mom and dad a present he made.

When it was my turn we wore reindeer antlers.

We had another round of cookies and I had fun hanging with my friends.

That same weekend we also got our tree.  Our elves (Chester, Boo Boo and Henrietta) got into the ornaments and started the decorating process for us. 

We finally got it all decorated.