Our Newest Little Love!

Our Nephew, John "Gavin" Dalgety, was born Sunday evening.  As you can tell, he is most adorable!  We are in love, for sure!

Christmas Wrap Up!

Christmas Card Photo

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Our Blogging Family to Yours!

(This picture took great effort to get...enjoy one of the few good shots of all of us.)

Christmas Eve, we went to the service at Grace which was great.  We had to sit on the floor in the foyer because there was such a big crowd.  That's one of those good problems, right?  Then, we met up with my family at Olive Garden.  It was quick (due to a fussy infant) but a good time.

After Olive Garden, we set out cookies and Maggie's paci for Santa.  Maggie sent her paci via Santa to her cousin, Gavin, who was expected to be born any day. Surprisingly, Maggie did very well without her paci...yay!

Then, Santa and his helper went to work!

We were all up early ready to have some fun!  We had Mimi, Papa, Aunt Tay, Nana, and Pal over to have breakfast and enjoy watching Maggie and Kerri Grace open up Santa gifts.

After that, we headed to Grandma Oliver (AKA "Mama O")'s house in Abbeville.  It was so good to see everyone again.  We missed Bradley due to him working.  Hopefully his schedule will be better next year.

We ended the Christmas day with a picnic in our bonus room (pay no attention to the mess in the background).

Joy to the World!!

Happy Birthday to Our Savior!!

Boy, did we celebrate His birthday!  December was full of events and family.  I don't think I can really describe each party and event (without boring you) so I will try to condense.  We started Sunday, December 13th at Matt's grandparents, and we partied hard all the way until Christmas Day ( I'll post Christmas Eve and Christmas Day soon)!  Definitely, one of the best parts for Maggie was Daddy being off more to play!  Here are some pictures from the last couple of weeks.  Hopefully the captions will give you enough info. about where we were and who we were with. Enjoy! 

Merry Christmas!

A Few Things That Make Me Jolly This Season:

Thing #1:

My baby girl rolling over all the time (while sporting her adorable hand-me-down Christmas apparel)!

Thing #2:

Making Christmas cookies with my Christmas cutie!

(She gave these to Mrs. Bebra (Debra) and Mrs. Penny, her school teachers.)

Thing #3:

Excitedly running out to the mailbox to see what Christmas cards await us! 

Maggie's First Dance Performance!

Maggie's 2-year-old "dance" class (actually called Creative Movement, which is more accurate) just had their first ever performance. We all wondered how Maggie would respond when the curtains opened to a packed auditorium and the bright lights of the Big-Time hit her. Our questions were answered about 0.5 seconds after the curtain opened and Maggie proceeded to bust out with her own dance interpretation of Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. We now officially have a performer on our hands, and afterwards she kept asking if she could do it again.

Maggie all Reindeer-ed up and ready to go.

That's my girl!

Forward-leaning hands on knees position. Very advanced skill for her age.

Why didn't everybody else want to step up to the front of the stage like me?

Bringing it home for the big finish!

Proud mommy and daddy with our dancing princess!

And if you want the full viewing experience, pause the playlist at the bottom of this page and click on the video below (guaranteed to brighten your day/week/month/year):

Lessons Learned....Maybe

Maggie, Kerri Grace, and I were about to head out the door.  Kerri Grace was in her carrier, and Maggie was ,once again, squishing her with a loving hug.

Mommy:  Maggie, Mommy has told you not hug on Kerri Grace when she is in her carseat.
Maggie: (Nodding) ...in her carseat, in her swing, on her toy mat
Mommy: Point taken, baby.

**Note to self:  My overly cautious personality is getting in the way of my girls enjoying one another!  Hmmmm...may need to work on that.**

Christmas Party...Small Group Style!

The festivities have officially begun!  Tonight, we had our small group Christmas party over at the Yoders.  They did it up right!  We had all kinds of good food, a fun round of white elephant gift card/ candy bar exchange, excited little toddlers running around, and three new little small group members celebrating their very first Christmas.  It really doesn't get any better than that!  Merry Christmas!