Baby Jack

Here are a few pictures, sorry it took so long, but we will be putting more on soon! I can't believe how much he has changed already. I am so grateful to be home and sleeping in a real bed. Jack is such a good baby and our girls love watching him. LL always wants to know why he won't answer her when she talks to him, and MJ thinks it's fun when he looks at her. Have a great New Year!

This is a picture of my friend Keli and I Christmas night. She is 6 months pregnant with their first. And as you can see I am about ready to burst! LL looking at Jack's toes
MJ being a big girl and holding him all by herself

Family Pictures just after Jack was born

A Christmas time walk

We decided to take a trip into Boston to have dinner with dad the other day. The girls had a blast on the train and then we surprised them with our friends Keli and Alvin joining us in our fun outing. MJ and LL really wanted to find the tree that these went on (this in the lobby of Matt's building).
Christmas Tree in Boston Commons

one of the many decorated trees by Quincy Market.

And we topped it off with a stop in Quincy Market for some yummy treats.

Pillow?

This is LL's new favorite spot to lay. And in just 7 days she won't be able to lay like this anymore. But I call her my Velcro child and I know she will find another comfy spot on mom to lay after Baby Brother is born.

Yee-Ha We Had Visitors

We are lucky to have some friends come at least once a year to visit family here in the New England area. We were able to hang out and have dinner with them in early December. Esther and the girls had a blast playing together and we even got to meet their new little man. Thanks guys it was fun.

2 Weeks!

Again thanks to MJ for taking the picture. We are officially at 2 weeks until baby Boy is born. We are all so excited for him to join our family. It's going to be a crazy couple of weeks. Christmas and two Grandmas coming into town.

This is almost the worst stage because everything is getting too small but it's too close to delivery for me to justify a purchase of more maternity clothes. But you think I would know after two pregnancies.

Out for a walk...

So we decided to take a walk before the big snowfall started. I was so excited to see that there are so many wreathes out too. Enjoy!

Make a Wish

The girls were so excited to learn about the wishbone on Thanksgiving. They really wanted to pull it apart.

Make a wish LL!

More projects keeping us busy

What can I say, I really like to sew and quilt. The girls love their new pillow cases. And LL can't wait for her big girl bed.

I love it but this is what it does to my house, YIKES!It's done and ready to be sent off for Christmas! Yeah!

It Was Too Cold!

You know it's too cold to go to the park when...

1. Your kids are playing with ice that was frozen on the slide 2. the wind hurts your face and after 5 minutes of playing everyone wants to go home
and 3. when you pull the strings on your sweatshirt like you were in Jr. High to cover your face from the wind and you put your girls in the single stroller like this to make it home fast.

Oh the lessons we learn!

Thanksgiving Dinner

After a last minute decision to cancel our New York/ Michigan Thanksgiving trip this is what we ended up doing. A nice, quiet, peaceful dinner at home. Just us! It was fun and everything turned out great.

Keeping Busy!

Here is a Christmas present in the works, nope sorry I'm not telling who it's for either. They will have to wait and find out, but I will post a picture when it's all done too.

This one was a fun quilt kit my mom got for me last Christmas that finally made it to my list of quilts to make. I still haven't finished it, but someday it will be done.

FHE

Or otherwise known as Family Home Evening. It was Matt's lesson. We learned of Grandpa John that passed away in 2000. We realized that we talk about him but not enough. LL really didn't know who we were talking about and all MJ knew was that he passed away. It was fun showing them pictures and telling stories. I never met him but I feel like I know him through Matt and his family. One of Matt's favorite stories is of how his dad use to put them on top of the fridge and walk away. Weird to someone else but this was something he loved. So here is MJ getting the Grandpa John experience.

Dorothy?

So I let the girls watch the Wizard of Oz. I thought two things would happen, 1. they would think this old movie is dumb and 2. that it was scary. But I was wrong they loved it, a little scary but they ended up loving it. The next day we went to Joann Fabrics for some material and of course their Halloween stuff is like 90% off so we found some red Wizard of Oz slippers there. Now they each have their ruby slippers. But MJ won't click her heals together because she says she's already home.

More Rockport, MA

We love going to Rockport, it's a fun little town. We actually went to buy a painting that I have been wanting to get for our house. I will have to put a picture of it later, but we of course had to walk around town and enjoy the wonderful weather. Oh and to see more picture click here.
sassy LL

watching the waves crash up against the rocks

a guy thing

smile!

They loved that everyone still had pumpkins sitting outside of their stores.

cheese

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