Riley Lauren

Happy New Year!

Thursday, January 01, 2009 | Comments (0)

(2 years 8 months)

Hello 2009!!!

We had a wonderful low key New Year's Eve at our house. This year there wasn't a party at Phyllis and Gary's so we offered up our house to watch football, a movie and the ball drop..... with exciting cuts to Robbie Maddison doing his death defying motorcycle jump. The highlight was the amazing food we ordered from Mama Rosa's right down the street from us!

They had $2 HUGE meatball subs.... and I think in the house there were 3 - 4 devoured along with several pizza's and gyro's. It's a small ma and pop joint that ROCKS. We'll definitely continue to be buying from them.

Scott and I decided NOT to keep the girls up to watch the ball drop due to all the crazy festivities from the past 2 weeks, and it worked out well as they both went down pretty easily and the next day Riley was so tired that she put HERSELF down for a nap without me even knowing. I love having them in their beds now!

Merry Merry Christmas!

Monday, December 29, 2008 | Comments (0)

(2 years 7 months 4 weeks)

Grammy B flew up from Virginia on Saturday with too much excitement. The flight had problems coming out of Detroit, where they eventually delayed it by 9 hours and ended up losing my mom's luggage. UGGGGG. Thankfully she did fly in safety and we did our Christmas with her this evening.

The girls were excited to open up everyone's gifts, not just their own which was funny.... though Riley was a wee bit tired and didn't like hearing the word no.

Reese and Riley received these really cool dolls where you point to different spots on their body and they say what they are as well as in Spanish.... but they both loved their clothes.

Riley loved her shirt so much that she went to sleep in it that night!

New Room and Roomie!

Monday, December 29, 2008 | Comments (0)

(2 years 7 months 4 weeks)

Reese spent the night at Ma and Pa's last night since Matt was in town. As a surprise Scott built Riley's toddler bed...

This was one of the last photos taken of Riley in the crib.

And I broke down the tent and reorganized the room to be able to put Riley's bed in there.

It was sad to take down the tent. That had been in Reese's room for about 3 years.... but as soon as we get bunk beds in there (next Christmas, Reese is still a bit too young to be on the top bunk) I promised we'd put it back up in there.

The first night with the girls in there was a little long as they were both SO excited to have eachother in their room. But no one got out of bed other than going to the bathroom and slept through the night!

Merry Christmas!

Wednesday, December 24, 2008 | Comments (0)

(2 years 7 months 3 weeks 2 days)

What a WONDERFUL Christmas Morning, Afternoon and Day!!!!

The look on the girls' faces when they finally came down stairs with all of us was amazing! They were so into seeing everything in the stockings, opening up every little thing and gift.

We all were spoiled beyond belief, and definitely have to say thank you for all the wonderful gifts, even from Scott. I was pleasantly surprised at his gift choices this year.

Reese did receive her beloved cupcakes from Santa. Her face was priceless once she saw what was in the box and it was one of the first things she opened before breakfast.

The kids opened up all their gifts and we fixed breakfast then Scott and I opened up our gifts. By the time it was all said and done it was around 10:30 and we got dressed to head over to Ma and Pa's for their Christmas!

They opened up their gifts, after almost a shotgun race to wait for Tom, Matt, Shaun and Linda to open their gifts. We all laughed at there eagerness.

All of us received such nice things, thank you again!

The girls took naps while Scott and I opened our gifts in a nice leisurely fashion. It was nice to have dinner over at Phyllis and Gary's later in the evening so that we didn't feel so rushed doing our family stuff.... and the girls were able to get their second wind.

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