This post is all about filling in some of the holes of our writers strike inspired sabbatical. We realize that the timing caused us to miss some major holiday posts and so we'll try and make it up to you here. We have about as much motivation to give you a full two month play-by-play as you do to read it.
The first major event was our decision to actually celebrate Christmas this year. Last year was pretty rough with the first trimester and all and we just didn't have the energy to jingle, don gay apparel, wassail or much of anything. This year was much more merry and bright, complete with Christmas tree, decorations and Santa. We ended up celebrating Christmas early here in Vegas so that we didn't have to recreate Santa's sleigh in the back of the car for both legs of the trip to Utah.
We made the pilgrimage to Salt Lake to share the holiday with friends and family. It was a great trip and we were able to connect with quite a few people that hadn't ever met Paisley. Tim is still building vacation time - and learning not to be the last one in the division to ask for time off - so we had to return to Vegas a few days after Christmas. A snow storm in central Utah kept us north for a day longer than planned. Paisley had an abundant Christmas and was pretty spoiled by her three Grandma Santas. Luckily, most of the presents came with off switches.
New Years Eve was fun and we had our friends come over for pizza and a competitive round of Cranium. The competition definitely took its toll and by 11:00 we called it a night. Once you have a kid, staying up past twelve becomes, staying up later than usual. Another successful celebration.
One of our family gifts to ourselves was a new camera lens (a sweet Canon 50mm f1.4) and have had a lot of fun playing around with it. Here are some of our favorite pictures from over the holidays.
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I love your posts- they are so witty.
Yahoo! It's nice to be able to fill in the gaps! CUTE photos. Paisley has the brightest smile, I can tell just by looking at her that she is very happy. Tribute to the parents!!
BTW: Nate and I barely stayed awake for midnight on New Year's Eve and we don't have kids. What is that saying about us? Old. Decrepit? LAME!
Yea Christmas photos! It was so much fun to meet Paisley and see you guys. She is such a great baby, you two are very lucky.
I also think that I am getting old. I hosted a party at my place on New Years and before it started I wanted everyone to go home. Unfortunately they didn't leave until 1 am. I would of loved to be in bed at 11!
You have a beautiful family and such a sweet baby!!!
Great photos.
Cousin Matthew looks like he would do anything to take care of Paisley. Very sweet.
Ha! Cousin Matthew forgets that he has 2 sisters of his own, one of them is the same age as Paisley, but he kept asking if they could trade his sister Natalee for Paisley. It was pretty cute.
Yahoo! I am so glad to see updates. I like the new layout and background too. Your Christmas photo's are great, Paisley look so cute! I loved the green bean drama too. I babysit for a friend of ours son who still does the gaging, body convulsion thing when he eats green beans (but they still ask me to feed them to him). Glad to see things are going good. Keep up the bloging, we missed you.
I love that picture with Paisley and "Cousin" Matthew. Very nice.
Brandi,
I love your blog!! Your pictures are beautiful - you have the cutest daughter in the world! And you are a talented writer! I am so happy you are my visiting teacher now! I think you're fabulous!
Love,
Cassondra
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