"Merry Christmas!"

Christmas Eve

Riley and I making cookies for Santa.


The guys hanging out while the girls made the cookies.


Family shot!

The best picture of the kids we could get in front of the tree. (Riley cannot hold Keegan for too long, nor does she really want to...we had to be quick.)

Santa's cookies by the Christmas tree - time for bed.

Enjoying a Cupcake

Decorating Cookies

Our friends had us over to decorate Christmas cookies a couple of weeks ago and we had lots of fun. Riley had fun making cookies for dad, but we managed to bring one cookie home for Santa.

Gingerbread House

This year making the gingerbread house was lots of fun with Riley. It held her interest for a bit, but she really just wanted to eat the icing and candy.

Next year Keegan can get in on all the fun!

Working hard...

The finished product, so pretty!!

Breakfast with Santa

Our church did breakfast with Santa last weekend...if you look at the first picture you can see how that went. Riley was excited and happy to see Santa until it was her turn to sit on his lap. We had talked about it hoping she would be okay with it, but there is always next year. Although if you ask her what Santa says she will say "Ho, Ho!" and if you ask her what Santa is going to bring her she will tell you pink polish for her toes, it is very cute.


This is not going well at all, but Keegan seemed quite content.


At least the screaming stopped!


Happy it is over and happy about the candy cane Santa gave her. At this point if you ask her if she had fun with Santa her response is "Yes!" (It does not seem as though she had fun, but if she thinks she did that is great.)

Riley and Ella

Here is Riley and her friend Ella, it is very difficult to get two little girls that are almost 2 to look at the camera at the same time and smile; I guess I should say it is impossible. It is okay, they are so cute together. Ella is our friends Jeff and Jodie's little girl, she is 5 days younger than Riley. They also have a little boy who is about 2 1/2 weeks older than Keegan - we could not have planned this if we tried, but it is great having friends with kids the same age.

Keegan's Baptism

We had Keegan's baptism last weekend and it was great. Matt's grandpa performed the baptism which made it even more special. We decided to go a little non-traditional for the outfit, but I thought he looked super handsome!! Keegan surprised me and did not cry one bit, and yes, he was awake the entire time.


My cute little man in his VERY cute outfit (a funny face, but you take what you can get).


This is us and Keegan's godparents, Jeff and Jodie.


A special moment.


We enjoyed a nice lunch afterwards, with dessert of course.

So cute...

It's Beginning to Look Like Christmas

We also did our inside Christmas decorating and I am so happy! I love Christmas and I love having the tree and decorations up. This year we had to get a little creative because we do not have a fireplace or any type of ledge to hang our stockings, but we got it figured out.


Riley had fun telling us where to put the ornaments.

Christmas Lights

Last weekend we started getting ready for Christmas! Matt worked hard on Friday getting our Christmas lights put up on the house and they look great!


Here he is hard at work!


Keegan slept in the front carrier on me and we watched Matt work.


Once up from her nap Riley had fun outside while Matt put up lights - she liked sitting on the bottom of the ladder. (Now when you ask her to smile you never know what kind of face you will get...so exciting.)


So pretty!!

Thanksgiving Boy

Going Out...

We went for a little walk to the park down the street the other day.

Happy face...


Not so happy face...

It's amazing how fast his mood can change. He got much happier as we started moving and Riley had lots of fun at the park!

Smiles

It is so hard to get pictures of Keegan smiling, but I managed to get a few to share. It is so fun now that he is smiling! Keegan had his 2 month check up last week and he is doing just fine. He is up to 9lbs 15oz and 21.5 inches long - he is a little peanut, but is growing along his curve like he should. He had a little cold for the last 2 weeks, but is now doing much better. It was very sad, the poor little guy could hardly breathe with all the head congestion.

Daddy's New Toy

We got a new toy in our house - a pool table. Matt has always wanted one and now we have it. Here he is trying to teach Riley to hit the balls; well that may take a while, but she loves playing "poo" with daddy.

Halloween

I am finally able to sit down and add the costume Halloween pictures...only 2 weeks late. Riley was a little pirate and Keegan has a little bear onesie that says "I am Beary Scary". We did not really do much trick-or-treating, but Riley enjoyed the night. I think she had the most fun handing out candy with her Aunt Haleigh; especially since we are still talking about it now. Next year will be even more fun!!

Carving a Pumpkin

Halloween seemed to sneak up on us a bit this year, but we did manage to find a pumpkin Halloween morning and carve it with Riley that afternoon - Keegan was not too interested. Riley thought it was interesting for a bit, but thought the insides were "yucky"!


Even though it was "yucky" Riley did her "share" of cleaning out the insides.


Riley thought it was much more fun to be cutting the pumpkin.


"What am I doing?" (she seemed puzzled to be pulling out part of the pumpkin)


Riley and dad with their masterpiece - we thought we should keep it simple this year!

Keegan hanging out with us during the fun!

1st "Real" Bath

Keegan finally got to have his first "real" bath tonight, not just a little sponge bath. We had to wait until his umbilical cord fell off and it finally did. We were beginning to wonder if it would ever come off. He seemed to really enjoy the bath!