Christmas - part one of two :)

after our Christmas Eve service - he was so excited for Santa to come!!

Christmas morning - Bill was the first one up... :)

a little unsure at first about why we were so excited... but he caught on!

Connor's second Christmas was a great one - fire truck, train tracks, clothes, a few books,
a giant floor  puzzle, and a school bus!

Bill gave me a wonderful gift - a song book and all the cd's I don't already own of my favorite singer - Sara Groves.  One of the cd's is autographed!! :) :)  I also got lots of other things... but I won't bore you with the details.

I gave Bill a hiking trip with Tumpline Ministries to Montana.  He'll be going this coming summer.

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas to our family and friends!

Hope your day is a good one and we'll see you soon!

toddler Pittsburgh-eze. :)

"Hause"

:)

I also forgot to ask him to say sandwich - which Connor calls a "sam-ich". :)

Trains and Trees

Connor likes to play "T Bo" at our house - no, not football playing... ;) ;)

Train. Board.

Like at Grandma and Pop-pop's.  It's very exciting.

We put a blanket over our piano bench, and it's a Connor sized train board!

Our Christmas tree was a two day event - going and getting the tree, and then decorating it.

Connor seems to like it, but he's been doing a good job not touching it! (So far...)

The night we got the tree

Decorating - he loved it!

getting ready for our Christmas card picture!

bubbles!

Connor figured out how to blow bubbles in the tub last night.

The reason I'm holding the blue bowl is because I was showing him how myself, and then he wanted to keep trying in the bowl too.

He eventually laid down on his belly and started blowing bubbles in the tub too - he thought it was so fun!

Back on Track :)

"doing science" with the nieces and nephews on Thanksgiving

John Gallo - I am so very sorry that I didn't capture your entire face for that picture... 

would have been a keeper for sure.. ;)

Night Night Thomas

Cousin time at Monna and Pap's house

A future candy maker in the making!

Figured out how to bypass the "you are out of storage space" issue from last week.

We're back on track and now you have seen what we did during Thanksgiving.

Look for some new pictures up soon!