Our girl is growing up!

HEre is a picture with our Olympus digital camera. It has worked well and we are grateful to have had it.  We went for a walk with Hannah

Here is a picture with our new digital SLR camera, Do you see a difference?

With the SLR camera you can see the water droplets and even better you can see the shadow of the water.  Have you ever seen that before?

She likes standing up

Mom and Hannah having a good time laughing

Paris loves this picture.  He captured hannah mid babbling.  When she is tired, she makes this sound by sucking in air and coughing at the same time. When people hear it they have to start laughing which then encourages her to do it more.

Christmas in Washington, part 2

Hannah had a great time with her cousins.  Here is a picture of all of them on the couch.  Jett, on the left is exactly 1 year and 1 day older.

Hannah enjoyed her Christmas dinner of peas, sweet potato and banana.  She also had some cheerios and mash potatoes.  She likes her food!

Mom & Dad at Christmas Eve dinner.  We do a lot of celebrating on Christmas Eve.

There wasn't enough room at the dinner table, so Hannah is between us

Here is one of her first Christmas presents from Oma & Papa.  

Tante Kelly gave us this cute Christmas dress for Hannah to wear, thanks!

I think she is excited about the elephant.  This is her excited smile.

One more chance to play in the snow.  Hannah has her snow boots on, well boots.

We went out to an early dinner with K & L , but all that Hannah wanted to do was take a nap.  I didn't get to eat my chicken casadieias at all.  She was so tired, so was crying  pretty loud.  I ended up warming my casadieias up a couple hours later.  So much for trying to go out to eat.

Christmas in Washington, part 1

Here are some picture from our trip to Washington.  There were so many pictures that I want to post that I am splitting the post in two.  Before Christmas and Christmas  These ones are from before Christmas when we were stuck inside because of the snow storm we were in while there.

I call her Santa's helper.  She is trying to help herself to the Christmas goodies that Santa has, but he's not giving them up.

Hannah's first experience with snow.  She likes it.  She had her first taste of snow and she wanted to eat more.  That's our girl!

Here we are in our Christmas outfits just back from church.  We almost didn't make it with the snow that was coming down.

Here we are getting a little air from being stuck inside for too long

Hannah loves her Papa. They laughed and played.

Cousin Lucy loved playing with Hannah.  SHe watched over her, brought her toys and even took toys back from her younger brother when he would steal them away from her.

Here is a genuine hand crafted  from what was east Germany, from the town my mom was born in.  This one was brought back by my mom when she went to visit the town.
We went to the Bellevue Botanical gardens and boy was it chilly.  We were really cold, but loved the lights.  Hannah enjoyed them, but we bundled her up so she would be able to.

Hannah Great grandma ( her Gross Oma) played with her and loved her to bits
Hannah had her own seat on the plane on the way up to WA.  Actually she spent most of her time sleeping.

I loved the shadow the sun makes

And the winner is...

I believe Shaylyn had her baby on Sunday, Dec 14th.  Is that right?  If so, then nobody wins because the 13th & the 15th were chosen, but not the 14th.  I guess baby Isabella wanted to come in her own time.

Christmas is in the air!

We went up to the Carousel in Tilden Park last week and saw Santa, rode on the carousel and saw a tons of lights and Christmas trees of every sort.  It was really fun!  Hannah liked the carousel.  SHe and I rode on a pony together.

We saw Santa leaving his little house and asked if we could get a picture. My mother-in-law said, "boy Santa, it looks like you lost some weight?  he said he was from the South Pole.I had to smile and snicker a little at the comment.

 Hannah didn't know what to make of it all, so she kept her eyes on me the whole time as you can see in the picture above.

Here we are in front of the lighted Christmas scenes

My mother-in-law put Hannah on top of this huge stuffed Reindeer.  She  just took everything in.

Paris said this is our little Yoda.  She will soon be joining the Jedi force.

Hannah was too cute for words, so I had to take a picture.  I know we have a lot of bath pictures, but when she's this cute how can you pass it up?

We were rolling the ball back and forth.  I wanted to capture a good sitting picture.

Last Tuesday, we visited Paris at his new office.  He whole department moved to a new and bigger location.  We brought him lunch to eat together, but we spent the time on a tour of the new place, talking with each other and his co-workers, that we have no time to actually eat. So Hannah and I ate after we said goodbye. 

After we had lunch, Hannah and I went to play at a park nearby in China town.  Everyone at the park was of a different nationality.  We felt like a fish out of water, but all the parents  including me, just smiled at each other and continued to play with their kids.  

The race is on

Well Shaylynn told me today that she was in labor on Monday, went to the hospital and got hooked up to the monitors, but wasn't quite ready so they sent her home to rest.  The rest was good, but the labor pains went away and now she is back to waiting. She promised Luke she would try to wait until Monday. 

Natalie, sorry but you are out of the pool.  Karen and myself are out as well.

 Kelly Jensen said she wanted in and was wondering if there was any hazing involved before she could join. What do you think girls?  Should we let her in?

Of course you can be let in, but first you have to tell us all about your fabulous time in New Orleans building houses for the Katrina victims.  I'm jealous!  Sounds like a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.  

Kelly I will put you in our poll for Dec 16th.  ( My dad's birthday and the day I will have total peace and quite in my little basement apartment.- everyone that lives above me is leaving for 3 weeks)

look below if you forgot the date you choose.  Good Luck!