For many of you this blog may come as a shock, you thought I had totally given up on blogging altogether (seeing how my last blog was in JULY!!!) I can't make any promises about future blogging, but I thought I'd post some pictures from Christmas. Will, Gaines and I started out on Dec. 20th and didn't make it back to the mountains until January 5th! We made stops in Jellico TN, Grand Rapids MI, Battle Creek MI, Chicago IL, Nashville TN, and Atlanta GA. I wanted to kiss my floor when we got home! It was a great trip, so wonderful to catch up with everyone, spend some quality time with family and we REALLy enjoyed the youth ministers conference in Atlanta- but being just 3 weeks from my due date with little baby girl (oh yeah... for those of you who check this randomly and didn't know, we are due to have a baby on January 30th!) I was really ready to get out of the car! Anyway, here are some pics from the trip...starting with a picture of my cousin Arriane and her new hubby Victor:)
Wendy (with baby Morgan), Erin (with baby Lincoln) and Katie (with baby Owen)
Me, my huge belly and my beautiful cuz Marcie (who Lord willing will be adopting a baby from Vietnam this spring...we are sooooo excited for her and Josh)
My sweet Grandpa Leeser
This was hillarious- Gaines' first snowman, whenever we ask him about building the snowman he says his favorite part was throwing snowballs at Papa while making it.
Will and Lincoln
Andrew, GG (holding Linc), Nana and Erin
The three pregos
Christmas Morning- too much excitement for Linc
Gaines wailing on his new drum set- compliments of Uncle Andrew and Aunt Erin
Brandon with his nephews (Brandon is only months away from being an official Dentist!)
The cutest boys on the planet:)
Gaines only asked for one thing from Santa...here's evidence that Santa was listening!
Erin and Lincoln
The cold didn't bother Gaines a bit when he was out there sledding- he was shivering and his face was bright red, but he just kept saying, "let's do it again."
Gaines got some practice being a big brother- he was very sweet to his new cousin. I hope the sweetness continues as the next couple weeks will bring him his own baby sister to love on.
Wendy (with baby Morgan), Erin (with baby Lincoln) and Katie (with baby Owen)
Me, my huge belly and my beautiful cuz Marcie (who Lord willing will be adopting a baby from Vietnam this spring...we are sooooo excited for her and Josh)
My sweet Grandpa Leeser
This was hillarious- Gaines' first snowman, whenever we ask him about building the snowman he says his favorite part was throwing snowballs at Papa while making it.
Will and Lincoln
Andrew, GG (holding Linc), Nana and Erin
The three pregos
Christmas Morning- too much excitement for Linc
Gaines wailing on his new drum set- compliments of Uncle Andrew and Aunt Erin
Brandon with his nephews (Brandon is only months away from being an official Dentist!)
The cutest boys on the planet:)
Gaines only asked for one thing from Santa...here's evidence that Santa was listening!
Erin and Lincoln
The cold didn't bother Gaines a bit when he was out there sledding- he was shivering and his face was bright red, but he just kept saying, "let's do it again."
Gaines got some practice being a big brother- he was very sweet to his new cousin. I hope the sweetness continues as the next couple weeks will bring him his own baby sister to love on.
