Who's a Big Brother?!

That's right! Landon's going to be a big brother this year! We are so excited to welcome another baby into our family. I'm due August 28th and just finising the first trimester. Sickness has ended, yay! Energy slowly coming back. Now we can start the fun of a growing belly.

Happy Birthday Troy!

Troy had a birthday the end of December. I'm still posting 2 month old pictures for our family to see. We were going to go up to the poconos and go tubing, but with wind chill temps well below zero we decided not to. Instead we went bowling (really Landon went bowling-every turn he thought was his!).

We came home and made a brownie ice cream cake.

We ate hamburgers for dinner.

Then came home for cake!

Disney On Ice

Santa left Disney on Ice tickets for our family so we went the day after Christmas and had so much fun. Landon is at such a fun age right now and LOVES Mickey Mouse. We had seats that were at the absolute top and right before the show was starting we noticed that there were tons of empty seats way down below so we went down and got ourselves some great seats! The show was titled "Let's Celebrate" and we celebrated all kinds of events/holidays and ended with a Christmas celebration. So fun, so worth it!

Christmas-posted before February

On Christmas Eve we got together with some friends for dinner and a White Elephant gift exchange which the kids thought was so fun. We ate tons of appetizers and a delicious salmon dinner.
We came home and set up our tri-pod to get a family picture in front of our tree. Landon thought it was the funniest game to push the camera button then run and say CHHHEEEEESSSEEEE for a long time.

So we changed in our jammies and played the picture taking game again.

Getting goodies ready for Santa and reindeer.

Christmas morning!! Look what Santa brought.

Our Christmas breakfast...crunchy french toast with strawberries and cinnamon syrup.

Here is our traditional Christmas dinner. Pierois and cabbage rolls.

It was such a relaxing Christmas being on our own. We played with toys, watched our new movie "Up", cuddled, and drank hot chocolate.

Light Shows

A few days before Christmas Landon and I took a train down to the city and met up with Troy to go see some light shows. We first went to Macy's and saw this fun light show set to music. Then we walked over to the Comcast Center to see their Christmas Spectacular 3D on their big screen tv in the lobby.

Snowed In

So here I am again, trying to catch up with pictures almost a month old. The Saturday before Christmas we had a huge storm come through and we were snowed in. We actually loved playing in the snow, making cookies, watching movies, and playing games. It was nice to be together the weekend before Christmas instead of running all over town. This was the biggest storm we've seen Philadelphia have.

Advent Calendar

Since this is our first year on our own for Christmas we get to start a few of our own traditions. This advent calendar is one of them. I've heard of this idea a few years ago and thought it sounded fun so we gave it a try. It really has been so fun. Every night/day we do some type of activity together as a family. We have made cookies, played games, gone to see lights, made a gingerbread house, watched Christmas movies, and the list goes on. We have had such great quality time together as a family. Highly reccomended.