Christmas & New Year's Eve!

Celebrating an Early Christmas

Typically, on Christmas Day we go to my parents' house for breakfast and then to Josh's grandparents' house for an Italian dinner. However, this year Logan's grandma was going to be out of town for Christmas, so the family met up for lunch the week of Christmas to celebrate and exchange gifts! Logan and his cousin, Alex.
Hangin' with Daddy on his lunch break.

Grandma knows how much Daddy likes the Lakers, so she got Logan these adorable Lakers' onesies.

Logan got a fun toy and lots of clothes from his Auntie Brooke.

Christmas Eve

Every year for Christmas Eve my mom's side of the family goes to my Tia's house. We always have so much fun eating dinner, playing games, watching movies & opening presents! This year was fun too, but we had to leave a little early to get Lo down for bedtime. Logan got so many cute things from his Mimi, Great-Grandma, Great-Uncle & Great-Aunts. Nana & Papa got this adorable outfit for Logan. His bottom reads, "Logan's First Christmas".

Logan hangin' out with his Titi.

Logan having fun with his Great-Aunt, Linda.

Logan's Great-Grandma, Olgui, is trying to feed him his rice cereal.

Christmas

This year for Christmas we woke up and our family of three opened presents at our home. Afterwards, we went to Mimi and Papa's house for some yummy breakfast. My mom made a traditional Venezuelian breakfast dish--arepas. Since we weren't going to Josh's grandparents' house for dinner, we went back over to my parents' house for a delicious Bolognese meal.

Opening his first present on Christmas morning

And Lo's favorite gift of all...wrapping paper!

Logan got this comfy chair from Nana and Papa.

Can you believe that all of these presents are for Logan? And these are just the gifts from Mimi, Papa and Tia!

My mom got Logan this dinosaur toy and he just fell in love with it's face!

Merry Christmas!

Logan with his Tia, Papa & Mimi. This child is spoiled by them!

Every year Auntie Angela makes Christmas pajamas for her family. This year she had some extra material and made some Christmas pajamas for Logan! Thanks, Auntie Ang!

Happy 5-month, sweetheart!

New Year's Eve

This year we went over to the Dowdee home for a yummy dinner and wine party! It was delicious, a lot of fun and kid-friendly. The adults were able to eat, drink and be merry while the babies were asleep in the other room. Thanks guys for hosting the party! Josh, Jared & Ryan--the 3 amigos!

Auntie Em & Logan

Logan all ready for bedtime!

December 2010

Wow! It seems like time has flown by since Halloween. Logan is now 5 months old! At his last doctor's appointment, Logan weighed 15 pounds and 4 ounces! Now that he is on solids--eating fruits, vegetables and rice cereal--he is just packing on the pounds and loving food! Our little man is growing so fast. He is so observant, loves to smile and giggle, and touch the faces of those he loves! He is so adorable and we're loving every second of it!

Pictures of Logan


Logan meeting his new friend, Trever (Kristy & Jared's baby boy), for the first time

Thumbs Up!

Eating peas for the first time!

Bath time

Hangin' out with Auntie Em!

Hangin' out with Uncle Jim and Teddy! Uncle Jim is in the Army and is stationed in Georgia, so this trip out was the first time he met Logan.

Tummy time on the play-yard

We have a beautiful tree in the backyard with leaves that turn yellow in the fall and shed in the winter. The leaves were so pretty that I decided to take Logan into the backyard and take some pictures.

Visiting with Santa

We took Logan to the Brea Mall to meet Santa for the first time. Surprisingly, he reacted very well to Santa. In fact, we actually got a picture of him smiling. I'm sure next year he'll be more shy and wonder why a stranger is holding him. We met up with the Bridgford Family and had a blast taking Christmas pictures. Hangin' with his favorite gal pals--Lillie & Ellie

Christmas Tree

Here are some pictures of our family picking out our Christmas tree and decorating it!

Annual Christmas Party with Best Friends

Every year we get together with our best friends, Ang & Mike and Joelle & Aram plus the kids, for our Christmas party. We take turns hosting it and this year it was held at our house! Last year Lillie was a few weeks old and I was a few weeks pregnant. This year Logan is here and Joelle is pregnant! I can't tell you how special this get together is and how lucky I am to have these amazing best friends!

Lillie, Logan & Ellie hangin' out by the presents.

"Yeah, that's right, I'm cool!"

Look at this child!

The girls love playing with Logan! He's one lucky little guy!

Christmas Party

For the past few years, we have gotten together with all of our friends for a Christmas party. We all bring yummy food & goodies, we have a fun gift exchange, and the boys play football and hurt themselves! This year the Nesselroads hosted and we had a blast! It was extra special because this was the first year with babies! Logan hangin' out with his buddy, Trever

Our happy family of three!

Lo and his Daddy

Lo with his Mommy

The Mommys with their sons! Tammy & Tyler, Me & Logan, and Kristy & Trever. It's going to be so much fun next year with these three boys running around! Before we know it, they'll be outside with the Daddys playing football.

Logan loves his Auntie Em!

Hangin' with Auntie Jamie

All partied out!

Such a happy boy!

Videos of Logan

Check out these funny videos of Lo snoring, eating and laughing!

Lo snoring



Logan eating his first vegetable--peas!



Eating carrots for the first time



Lo eating his first fruit--pears!



Lo laughing