Matt's Christmas program...part of it anyway.

Here is a portion of Matt's Christmas program.

Just some more photos

Julia loves to look at Jeff. Not sure why she likes his hairline, but she always stares at it! Matt's new thing is to be a tiger. He used to ask me to help him make whiskers on his face, but now he knows where mommy keeps her eyeliner. When it gets to be too quiet in the bathroom, this is how I usually find him!

Merry Christmas!

Santa made it through all of the ice and snow. Both Matt and Julia must have been on the "nice" list because they got all kinds of presents for Christmas. It took quite awhile to open presents because Matt had to pick off every label before opening the present, but we finally finished. It was so fun to watch the look on his face when he opened a present. It will only get better as Julia gets older too!

Christmas Eve

Despite all of the snow, we drove to Eden Prairie on Christmas Eve. Mommy, daddy, Matt and Julia were all spoiled by Grandma and Tom! You wouldn't guess it by the look on her face in the picture, but Julia was very excited for her first Christmas and opening all of her presents. Actually, Matt was a good big brother and helped her open most of her presents. Matt was very thankful and even gave lots of hugs to grandma and Tom that night.

Grandma from Arizona is visiting

Grandma Dumroese is visiting from Arizona! She is definitely enjoying snuggle time with Julia and has already gotten to feed our little peapod. Grandma is pretty crafty and she crosstitched a pretty picture for Julia with her birth date on it. She also brought a cool book with her that Matt enjoyed seeing and it has her voice recorded so it is like she can always read it to him. Check out Julia's cool new moccasins, they are a little big, but they'll fit perfectly in the near future...thanks Elle!

The Christmas tree is up

We haven't finished decorating the house for Christmas, but at least the tree is up. Matt helped daddy with the first two rows and then lost interest. Thank goodness we got the picture right away. Although Julia slept most of the time, daddy made sure she was part of putting her first ornament on the tree.

Happy Thansgiving

Daddy wanted to have Thanksgiving this year and mommy agreed as long as he did the cooking. Thanks daddy, it was a great dinner.

Picture with Santa

So we had to stop by the mall tonight and Matt said that he wanted to sit with Santa and tell him what he wanted for christmas. Well Mom and Dad said ok! Wow! Really! Let's do this!

New photos

The dogs bark a lot so poor Julia spends most of her nap time in a startled position with her hands in the air. Actually, she does all sorts of funny poses during her naps. She even salutes us! Matt is such a good big brother. He likes to help when he can. So far, that only consists of feeding her a bottle or throwing away her diapers, but at least he feels like he is helping us. The boys don't want much to do with her, but Lilly likes to snuggle when we let her.

Some more of Julia

Clearance Halloween makes great dress up

Matt loves his new Bumblebee from Transformers and his Black Knight.

Matt's Halloween

Here are some pics of Matt the fireman. He had more fun sitting by the fire handing out candy then actually trick-or-treating.

Julia Comes Home

Julia was all set to come home and Grandma brought Matt to the hospital so he could help take her home. He even helped her with her nuk. Did we mention that she is very orally fixated. He even wanted to practice holding her so when he gets bigger he can rock her.

Matthew is a big brother

Today, November 2, 2009, we welcomed Julia Grace into our family. She is adorable at 8 lbs 1 oz, 21 inches long. She was born at 2:20 pm. Here are a couple pictures..more to come!

Picking pumpkins

Although it was cold, we decided to go pick our pumpkins last weekend. Matt wanted to make sure we went into the field to pick big pumpkins and get little baby pumpkins too. Just in case the new baby arrives before Halloween, we had to make sure we got pumpkins for "peapod" too.