Easter 2008

Annierae had a wonderful Easter this year. It started with an early morning visit from the Easter bunny, leaving her a mystery Easter basket which included a big, cuddly stuffed bunny this year along with a plethora of confectionery delights. After a few samples it was time to get ready and head to the Easter service at church. Upon returning home around noon Annierae prepared to greet family and friends coming around 1:00pm. As everyone showed up Annierae and her friend Bryson headed off for a quick egg hunt before we all sat down to a delicious dinner. Everyone stayed until late afternoon, and as the sugar buzz wore off Annierae, she was ready to head to sleep for the day, tired out after a fun and busy Easter celebration. Here are a few photos of the days highlights...

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The mystery Easter Bunny delivers a huge basket and stuffed bunny rabbit


All ready for church


Toasting to the scrumptious dinner about to be eaten


Sampling some of the spoils from the Easter egg hunt


A couple more Easter baskets found behind the curtains


Playing ball with Aunt Judy (who's having more fun here???)


And the fun continues with Aunt Pat getting in on the action


A few ink stamps all over to round out the day


A picture from the night before Easter as Annierae gets ready to help mommy decorate cookies


A cute little smile to close the this post

Halloween 2007

Annierae had a great time on her second Halloween.

Unlike last year, she walked (ok - ran) the entire way as opposed to being carted around in her stroller. Of course the witches hat and magic wand were promptly handed over to be carried after the first house. She was focused on the bag-o-goodies!

We made it around the neighborhood in record time (which was a good thing because it began to rain about 10 minutes after we got home).

Dad had the honor of accompanying the little trick-or-treater while mom stayed home to hand out candy and photograph some of the cute & creative costumes that presented themselves at our doorstep.

Here are a few pics of the night before pumpkin carving results and her "scary" witch costume...

Easter 2007

Annierae had another great Easter this year. After an early morning visit from the phantom Easter Bunny, family & friends came over to share in a wonderful dinner, and afterwards an exciting Easter egg hunt ensued. After all was said and done there were enough chocolate bunnies and jelly beans to feed an army (although I don't think they will last all that long - I hope Annierae gets some of them)!

Here are a few pictures commemorating the day...

Annierae's Christmas 2006

Well Annierae enjoyed a wonderful Christmas this year! Along with Mom & Dad, she was able to spend time with family & friends, and Annierae had a great time with all of her presents. We went to an early Christmas Eve service at our church, then off to Aunt Judy & Uncle Bob's for our traditional pizza dinner. Christmas day found us at our house hosting the whole family and everyone had a great time, especially with the white elephant gift exchange (sure to become a new tradition).

Here are a few pictures that better capture the fun!
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Christmas 2005

Annierae's first Christmas with us was magical.

First, we celebrated Christmas Eve with Mass at St. John Vianney, then went over to Aunt Judy & Uncle Bob's for our family tradition of ordering Pizza! Annierae had a wonderful evening with family & friends and fell fast asleep on the way home.



On Christmas day, Annierae was up early to open presents with Momma & Pappa before the family came over. She was definitely spoiled by all involved, including Grandma & Grandpa via special delivery from Vermont.

Shortly afternoon, Aunt Pat & Uncle Tom along with Aunt Judy & Uncle Bob, Great Aunt Sister Marie Jude and cousins Matt, Sandy and Sara came to our house to celebrate with Annierae.

We had a fabulous meal, dessert, then Annierae opened more presents. She was overwhelmed, but very happy! Once again, all of us present received the best gift by having Annierae in our lives!

What a wonderful gift from God!

Tis the Season

I thought I was doing so well having all my Christmas shopping done and all the presents wrapped before we left for China. Unfortunately, being without a car for the past two weeks has put me behind in my Christmas planning. I am happy to report that Greg did get a new car Wednesday and Annierae and I have been running all over town to get our final Christmas preparation done.

Annierae is doing great she is very social and loves to be out and about. Her favorite thing these days are to go out to eat in a restaurant. She loves all the attention she gets from the wait staff and other diners. We are realizing she is a big ham. She also loves cake and ice cream tonight we went to Aunt Judy's to celebrate Judy's Birthday and once again she got to have her cake and ice cream. I am amazed at how well she eats and it’s beginning to show her face is really starting to fill out, watch out Bryson I'm catching up to you.

Today we tried to have a photo session with Annierae for our Christmas cards but it is so hard to get a good picture of her without the fingers in her mouth. We did get a pretty good one but you will all have to wait for your Christmas cards to arrive to see it. Below are a few of the photos that were taken.

Hope all is well with all of you still visiting our site. We will try to continue to update the site weekly.