Christmas Part One

We spent Christmas this year at our home in VA Beach with Mimi, Pa, and Uncle Ben. We had a great time together and the girls were spoiled rotten as usual:) Unlce Ben took some pics on Christmas Eve and here are a few to remember it by.....

Mimi started the tradition of giving the girls Christmas jammies to unwrap and wear on Christmas Eve. Reagan's say "Baby's 1st Christmas" they were so cute on her.

 

I have been meaning to do a post on this but Aubrey is obsessed with playing instruments. She found Nate's old trumpet and was able to blow on it and make music right away. I still can't get the thing to toot but Aubrey sure can. She gave us a Christmas Eve show!

Aubrey's show put Reagan and Mimi in the Christmas Spirit!

                        

Daddy reading Twas the Night Before Christmas...

 Aubrey baked Christmas cookies with Mimi and left a few for Santa along with a special note she colored and put stickers on.

We wish you a......

8 months

Reaggy Roo turned 8 months a few days ago!

  Her favorite thing to do is pull herself up and stand. She will find a way to stand up where ever she goes!

                               
                                                              She loves to be on those tip toes!

She still has no teeth and wants to put everything in her mouth, especially paper and anything that she is not suppose to have!

                    She loves to blow bubbles (pictured below:), clap her hands, give wet kisses, bounce in her crib with Aubrey, crawl thru her princess tent tunnel, and babble about all kinds of things...

               For every five pictures I take of her, four of them she is putting something in her mouth:)

Oh yeah and we caught her climbing stairs a week ago. Mommy almost had a heart attack...

This weekend we went to three Christmas parties (including our squadrons Children's Christmas Party where Santa flew in on one of Daddy's jets) and one Birthday Party and I took ZERO pics. I need to do better at documenting events for my girls!! 

Updates in Pics

Wow its been a busy few weeks. I wanted to update the blog with a few pics of what has been going on in the Michael household.....

We left off at Nate's 30th birthday, here is the birthday boy with his cake and girls (minus mommy:)!

The next day Mimi and Pa got here  to spend Thanksgiving week with us! We took Aubrey and Reagan to fly their first kite while they were here and it was a big hit. 

(I didn't take any pics so Mimi sent me a few from their visit)..... 

 As always Mimi and Pa came bearing gifts! We went out one night for dinner and Aubrey just had to wear her new cowgirl boots they bought. This girl loves to dance and they had live music so she showed off some of her moves...

 Then we got up on Thanksgiving day and ran the Turkey Trot. We hope to start this tradition with our girls.

 Mommy and Daddy running...

 Pa and Aubrey cheering, it was a bit chilly that morning!

 Then we ate our yummy Thanksgiving dinner. Here is Aubrey with the delicious turkey that Nate and Pa brined!

After Mimi and Pa left Nana and Pap came to visit for a few days. Our first stop was a visit with Santa. Aubrey was NOT a Santa fan last year but she has been asking to go see him every day since she saw a big fake Santa at Michael's craft store. She was really excited to sit on his lap and wasn't scared a bit. I am not sure if Reags knew what was going on, she just followed what her big sister did:)

 The picture cracks me up because they don't look excited at all and all three of them have the same leery look on their faces. Aubrey asked Santa for a crayon, she is easy to please!

The next stop was the Virginia Aquarium. The girls had a blast and Nana bought us a membership so Mommy doesn't go stir crazy this winter!

In the meantime Reagan turned 7 months and is crawling and pulling up on everything. She is way ahead of where Aubrey was at this age but I think its because Reagan has her to watch and keep up with. Here are two pics I took yesterday of the girls, growing up way to fast!