Wrapping Gifts with a 16mo old :)

This past weekend we wrapped the majority of our Christmas presents, which include a few for Stevie.

Keeping the “Linder’s” tradition alive we thought it was no big deal if she saw them, played / held the boxes, then we would wrap them and open on Christmas morn. Here is what happened when we were done…

The difference was I was in middle school and understood what waiting a week meant.

Aunt Linny Is Home... Watch Out Stevie

Aunt Linny is home from college, which is so fun because she loves on Stevie every min. However, she also likes to try new things on her. Here's a few images I've received while working:


A new hair do


7 rubber bands, I'm still in shock Stevie let her do this

Linny thought her toes were ugly so she made them pretty....

Not sure I would've painted her toes this early but I must admit its fun that my little sister love my daughter so much.

I'm sure over the next 4 weeks I'll have more interesting Linny / Stevie images.

Santa Clause in T-Town

“Santa Clause is coming to town, he knows when you are sleeping he knows when you’re awake, he knows if you’ve been bad or good, so be good for goodness sakes”

He made a special visit to 184th street this week – Daddy and Stevie on Santa’s lap, she's giving daddy the death grip, for she’s not a huge fan. I must say I'm not looking forward to tha annual Santa lap picture this weekend.

Family Time at the Torrance (Seaside) lights

Not a bad way to travel...

More Christmas fun to come...

Elf Yourself

http://elfyourself.jibjab.com/view/1EVw857EtuzO1xrq7NGJ

Getting Our Christmas On

It's our favorite time of the year and what better way to get into the Christmas spirit than getting your tree???

Home Depot here we come....

Family Photo:

As usual the first one we see we love:

And who's excited by that...these two:

Time to decorate...

Thanksgiving Take 2

This year we were thankful to be able to host Thanksgiving at our home, ~1,200 sq. ft. and we were able to fit 30 people, comfortably I must say.

Thank you to everyone for pitching in with the food, the award for MVP (food set-up) goes to KATE WALSH, she out did herself with the MOST AMAZING dessert table and Hot Cider! Nice work.

Thanksgiving Dinner:

Welcome to the Holmes Thanksgiving:

The Company:

Bob and Connie

Sam and Curt

Grammy and Papa

Linda and John

Keek and Bro

Diane, Gus and Aunt Helen

Jay and Kate (MVP)

Linny and Josh

The Kiddos

A Happy Host (thanks to my very helpful husband for making my vision come true)

The girls:)

We love thanksgiving because we get to spend quality time with the Holmes family, thanks for driving down! looking forward to Christmas in AZ:)

Bath time with the boys....

Beach time

Water-girl

Landon was so sweet to Stevie, and she loved every min of it

Where did the boys go????

And here they are, brotherly love

I tell everyone that Stevie's BFF is her PAPA, the next two photo's say it all...

THANKFUL!

2012 Thanksgiving Bowl

Every Thanksgiving we go back to our old stomping grounds, West High, to play a family (not friendly) game of flag football. Thanks to my sister Kristy my lower back is still sore (she completely flatten me, or maybe I ran into her full speed on accident, instead of moving like a nice sister she gave me the X and lowered her shoulder). Thanks all for another fun year...winning always helps.

This year we had a few special guest:






Family photo (even Stevie had the black under her eyes)

Our next superstar

Just Because

Just because... we had free time on our hands and a few frames we needed to put new pictures in we decided to do a little photo shoot.

Here are a few fun ones.

Seriously I don't get paid enough to do another outfit change...

Happy Monday

Last Friday Stevie had her 15 month check up and the stats are in…

Weight: 26.5 lbs
Height: 32 inches

She’s healthy, growing and a joy. We’re thankful for her daily.

Happy Monday ... love silly Stevie


Family photo attempt: "You can't control her you can only hope to contain her"

Daddy and his twin

Happy Thanksgiving week.

Halloween

Happy late Halloween from the Holmes!

Halloween started out by celebrating Kylie's 2nd birthday.

We rode over in style.

Friends, happy birthday Kylie:

One of the things I love most about having a girl is that I can be her twin, for at least now. I'm sure when she's in middle school that won't be too cool...well I'll enjoy it while I can.

"Trick or Treat"....

The little kitten and NBA superstar...

Does this shoe make my foot look big?