Christmas

We spent Christmas at home in LA this year due to the arrival of Thayne.  I was very apprehensive and worried that my Christmas holiday would be lonely, but we were lucky that Robbie's brother Adam and his wife Lauren and daughter Julia decided to stay too.

Christmas Eve we had Adam, Lauren, Julia, and one of Robbie's fellow residents and his wife, Christiaan & Stephanie, over for dinner.  In my family, the tradition is to have a yummy dinner followed by reading the Christmas story and singing Christmas carols.  So, to keep up with tradition,  we did just that.  I am lucky that everyone there went along with the plan.  We had an amazing meal, read the Christmas story and Lauren, who is an amazing pianist, brought her keyboard so we could sing Christmas carols.  It was a fun evening that I will never forget.  The only thing we didn't accomplish was to watch It's A Wonderful Life.

Here are some pictures of Julia in her Christmas dress and Thayne in the Santa suit that my nephew Sam wore during his first Christmas.  There are also some pictures of my Christmas decorations.

Christmas Day we went over the Adam and Lauren's to open presents and have breakfast.  It was a lot of fun to watch Julia, who is 2, open presents. 

Here are some pictures of Christmas morning.

This is Julia's monkey tail!  She thought this was fun.

Thayne's First Week

The news around our house is that Thayne is thriving, I am recovering, Robbie is an amazing dad balancing residency and a new baby at home and my mom has been an incredible help!  We have had a lot of fun getting to know "the kid" as Robbie likes to call him.  He is turning out to be a good sleeper, and mostly happy baby.

This will be a long post of pictures...ENJOY!

Hospital pictures

Going Home Pictures

First Few Days At Home

First Bath At Home

Some Family Pictures for our Christmas Card

We have been fortunate to have my mom in town for the last week and are looking forward to Robbie's mom and my little sister coming in the next couple weeks.  I am sure there will more pictures to come.

More baby sewing projects

Here are some more of the cute baby items that either my mom, little sister Rachel or I made.

Above are the two car seat covers that my mom and Rachel made.  We love them!

 Nursing covers my mom and Rachel made... they are going to be nice and big enough to keep everything covered.

The minkie/cotton receiving blankets I made

The burp clothes I made from cute fat quarters of fabric I bought when in salt lake this summer.

Maternity Leave Projects

Our sweet Thayne decided to take his sweet time joining us so I had three full weeks to work on projects.  Here are some pictures.

Thayne's baby quilt

Baby quilt for a friend

Nativity advent calendar x 3

I also decorated for Christmas with our new day after Thanksgiving 7.5 ft Christmas tree, made our Christmas stockings and am half done with the tree skirt.  It was a busy three weeks!