With a 2 hour delay this morning, I can finally get another blog out! Gwen and our family had a wonderful Christmas spent with lots of family! Our celebrations began Christmas Eve at Grandmother's house and continued at Gram and Poppy's house....
Gwen helped Gram open a number of presents!
Poppy enjoyed a little dress up time with Gwen :-)
Joey and Whitney were home for the fun!
Even Ashley Beth and Ty were able to make it all the way from West Virginia!
Gwen was a very busy bee opening presents and playing with each one!
After some fun with the Tempels, we headed to Chicago for some Casey fun! Gwen loved seeing everyone and playing with Lilly! She also loved the snow! Chicago had about 8 inches of snow on the ground when we visited and Gwen and Bubba took advantage of all the fun to be had!
Buzz loved all the snow Gwen was throwing his way!
"Look Bubba! My legs are covered!" Gwen and Bubba only stayed out for about 20 minutes, but had tons of fun!
"Wow!!!! You can eat it!!!!!!"
We celebrated Christmas with Lilly and the girls got all dolled up for the occasion! Gwen loved showing off her red shoes!
Eager to show Lilly how a pro does it, Gwen attacked all the presents we would let her get her hands on!
"I love my new dress Elfie, don't you?"
Bubba and his girls had a great time playing under the tree with the spinning ornaments and the vent :-)
Before dinner one night we headed off to Brookfield Zoo to see the Zoo Lights!!!!! Gwen liked the lights, and the wagon ride around the zoo, but I think she liked seeing the animals best!
We returned home just in time to celebrate the coming of 2011! We went over the Gram and Poppy's house and hung out with Grace and her family!
Gwen also welcomed a new member to her growing pet family before the party! Here is her new baby goat that came while she was gone...affectionately named Charlie Horse!
Gwen was all ready to party all night!
Grace and Gwen modeled their PJs for everyone!
The girls worked hard to keep Papaw and Poppy awake!
Amazingly Gwen and Grace both stayed awake to ring in the new year with us! Happy 2011!!!!!
Happy New Year! Don't you love Gwen's choice of clothes (or the lack of)!
P.S.--So in the time it took to do this blog....that 2 hour delay turned in to a school cancelation!!!!!! Gotta love a little snow!
Also, yesterdays doctors appointment for our Baby Boy went very well. I am feeling well, despite a cold, and my little man is too. He is measuring fine and his heartbeat is strong. He is more of a tumbler and a little kicker and enjoys rolling around any time I stop moving. Every now and then he will give an series of strong kicks really low which makes the doctor think that at this point he is breach. Hopefully that will change by March with all the rolling he is doing! I am also expecting lots of hair on this one like Gwen! I have had to be on reflux medicine for over 2 months now because it was bothering me all day and night long! I have also started nesting already! Brad is laughing at me all the time because I am already trying to get everything in the house in order before my little man's arrival. I have reorganized all of Gwen's old clothes into new bins and put them away in the back of our closet. I have pulled about 1 bin's worth of neutral clothes from all that we already had and have hung all the clothes that we received as gifts in the closet! Brad thinks this is hysterical since it is only January, but you can never be too prepared...right?
