Christmas in New Jersey

We spent the weekend before Christmas up in New Jersey with Nick's brother, Vince, our sister-in-law, Michele, and our nephew, Justin. We missed being "stuck" in our house during the huge snowstorm (22"!) but we were unable to get to our house when we came home! We had a wonderful time in NJ and had a delicious meal of Penne Vodka (homemade by Michele!). Here are some of the highlights...

The First Christmas babies

I Hate It!

Don't you hate it when this happens?

More than Meets the Eye!

Happy 29th Birthday Daddy!

Ok, so probably some explaination needed. Nick has always complained that he always has a final on his birthday (when you are in school for 10 years and your birthday is the second week in December, it is probably true!) This year was no exception (what luck, he only had one final!), and probably the best gift he got was being done with school, but maybe it was his party!!! Carter is very into, what kind of party people are having. So he asked Nick what kind of party he was going to have, after discussing it they came to the conclusion that he would have a Transformers party. Little did Nick know that I would actually give him a Transformers birthday party complete with Transformer action figures on the cake! He was very surprised and had a great birthday! (I bet he won't ever forget it either!)

1st Snow

We had our first snow today, it snowed all day! It was so pretty! Carter and I took advantage of the snow and went sledding and built a snowman! It was Sophia's first time in the snow! She wasn't too sure about it at first (it was cold!) But she liked watching it fall from the sky!

Nick heard on the news that the past 6 out of the last 8 years it has snowed on December 5th and the other 2 years it was leap year and it snowed on December 6th...weird!

Here we are having fun!

Remember last years?

The Christmas Spirit!

We are ready for Santa! We've been good...I promise!

Thanksgiving!

This Thanksgiving we spent the morning with my parents and ate one delicious meal. And we spent the afternoon with Nick's family eating a second delicious meal. We had a full Thanksgiving day and we had a lot to be thankful for (as usual!)

Playing stick the feathers on the turkey (with a bunch of cheaters!)

Sophia's 1st Thanksgiving!

Hanging out with Uncle Brad

Watching a movie with cousin Brady!

Justin's 1st Thanksgiving too!

All smiles with Great Grandma! (who turns 96 in January!)

Nudie girl!

Playing with cousin Justin!

1st Haircut

Before (hair over the ears and in her eyes)

After

Pretty Girl!