Christmas 2011

Christmas this year was a little crazy with a one month old and 3 year old! We spent Christmas morning celebrating our first Christmas as a family of 4. Ryleigh loved all of her presents, especially her Minnie scooter from Santa! Then we headed over to Jarred's parents to celebrate with his family, the traditional breakfast and then opening presents one by one. After a nap and break at home, we headed over to my parents for the afternoon and dinner and opening more presents. Ryleigh was exhausted after a crazy, busy day. Needless to say she slept late the next morning! Nevertheless we still enjoyed our favorite time of year!





MeMaw meeting Parker for the first time.






Christmas morning seeing what Santa brought her and Parker


Santa ate all his cookie and drank all his chocolate milk! :)


Brother-sisterly love







Too many presents!



Silly daddy


Santa left one present at MiMi & PapPaw's...her cd player!

Parker was exhausted from the day too! :)

Christmas Program

Ryleigh had her preschool Christmas program on Wednesday, December 14th. We got there early, but not early enough...lesson learned for the next program! :)
She did so good singing the Christmas songs with her class along with 3 other 3 year-old classes. We heard these songs for months...and still hear them!





Ryleigh and Mrs. Carlisle

Ryleigh getting a hug from cutie Eli :)

Ryleigh and Ryleigh

Photo Shoot

I found several cute photo ideas from pinterest that I wanted to try on Parker. A few were successful, but the others not so much. Posing a newborn is not as easy as it looks!
Here are a few of the "good" ones...

Two Week Checkup

Parker's two week checkup on December 9th was just perfect! He weighed 8 pounds, 8 ounces. He had grown to 20.75 inches tall and his head was 14.5 inches. Dr. Ritch was very pleased and said he's growing very well.

Sweet Little Boy

I love the sweet, innocence of the baby phase...minus the crying! :)




Not sure what he's thinking in this picture, but he looks like an old man! haha

First Doctor's Visit

We followed up with Dr. Ritch on Tuesday, November 29th. Parker had dropped to 7 pounds 8 ounces but was doing great. No jaundice what so ever and was perfectly healthy!
I love getting our little man dressed up! :)