Hi Family & Friends,
We hope you all are enjoying every moment of this holiday season, we sure are over here! This last year has brought so many changes to our lives, and while we have embraced every one, we still have to pinch ourselves from time to time to remind ourselves that this is our life! We apologize that this letter is not coming to you in its normal fashion in your mail box, we are pretty sure someone hit the fast forward button on our lives and we have no way to slow it down. (We also figured we would jump on the ‘going green’ bandwagon and save a tree or two!). We have received so many wonderful and thoughtful holiday cards, we love getting them and hearing how everyone is doing, so we promise next year you will get one in return
Everyone says how quickly time flies once you begin your family and have children, I never believed them until this June. It is so incredibly hard to believe that our sweet baby girl is already six, yes, S-I-X, months old. I feel like it was just last week that we announced we would be having a baby, and just yesterday that we met our perfect angel for the first time. We are enjoying every second of being parents and having Olivia in our lives, she has been such a blessing in so many ways. If you do not follow our blog, you may not know that:
She is rolling over and has been since about 3 months
She is sitting up
Almost crawling (she has gone about 3 steps/scoots but has yet to really figure it out)
Is 13 pounds 1 ounce, and 27 inches. That’s the 8th percentile for weight and 75th for height, possibly a model on our hands??
LOVES Kobe (the dog), bath time, snuggling with mommy and daddy, and listening to music
Her favorite toys include giraffes (she has 5 of them), soft blocks, and just about anything that rattles and lights up
She spends most of her days jumping furiously in her jumperoo, napping in her swing, or scooting around on her play mat
She is eating pureed foods now, her favorites are prunes, carrots, sweet potatoes, and pears.
She has TWO TEETH!!
Has found her voice and LOVES to screech and scream to get our attention, it seriously cracks us up!
She is a huge people watcher, any where we go, she is mesmerized by people of all types, it cracks us up
Is quite the drama queen, but so full of personality, and she keeps us laughing all day long!
Aside from getting the hang of being parents, we have been busy with other things as well. I am still working as an ICU nurse here in Arizona. I love my job and am so grateful for all of my amazing friends and co-workers. I have been pursuing my photography here and there (when there is time, which is rare these days) and am hoping to build up my portfolio in 2010. I am also going to be an auntie for the first time and am soooo excited. My nephew is expected to arrive in early March and I cant wait to meet him. He and Olivia will be 9 months apart and I am so excited to watch them grow together and to have the opportunity to watch my sister become a mother.
Mike has been busy with his business, Snapbooth Entertainment. For anyone who doesn’t know, in March of this year him and his step-father opened up a photo booth rental company for weddings and other special events. After all the fun we had with the one we rented for our wedding, they had to have one for themselves. We are happy to report that his business is going awesome, with a total of 44 events completed in 2009, and 28 already on the books for 2010. It has been a huge blessing for our family and we are hoping to see huge growthfor the business in the coming years. I have to put my hubby on the spot here and say that he also has been an almost full time stay-at-home-dad. He watches our daughter for 14 hours straight, entirely by himself, and has never once complained. She is always fed, bathed, and happy when I get home from work, and there is almost always dinner on the table (bonus!). I am so SO proud of the dad that he has become, it has been so awesome to sit back and watch the beautiful relationship he and Olivia have formed with each other. I cant wait for the months and years to come!
We hope that you all are doing well, we think of you all often, and even if we don’t keep in touch as often as we should, just know that we love each and every one of you and are thinking of you this holiday season!
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