Fun with Cousins...

Uncle Paul, Uncle Doug & cousin Charlotte are visiting for a week, staying with Matt & Laura. We were fortunate to have all of them come over on Sunday to visit, play, catch up & eat! It was so nice to see the three kids play with each other! They were even taking turns as to who was Santa! There is a very large family gathering, of Dan's side, planned for Saturday so it will be really nice to see everyone together. This will actually be the first time everyone will be at the same place at the same time.

A Day in the Life...

A while back I posted a link to a album online featuring a picture from each day of Alexander's first year. It's complete, with the exception of two days. Please enjoy!

A Day in the Life...

Every time I go through this album, I can't help but smile.

First Fireworks

Tonight our town held it's annual fireworks. These are held over the lake and the High School track which is less than two tenths of a mile from our house. Now normally this is fun because we just have to walk out our door over to the track right before the fireworks start and walk back to our house and not worry about dealing with driving (because our street gets CRAZY-BUSY).

Well this year, it was a bit different in the sense that Alexander is a) here and b) would be sleeping. We decided to pass on going over to see them and just keep with his bedtime routine. We knew that it might be interrupted with the noise of the fireworks. However, we "brought" him anyway. Not really - but we stood on our front yard and took the monitor outside with us.

How he did not wake up from the noise & bangs, I'll never know. But he slept through it all and Daddy got to see fireworks, even if it was through our neighbors trees.

Fun at the Races...

This past weekend we went to Chris & Chris' house for the 4th Annual Derby Races. Unfortunately, Dan & I didn't get our act together in time to make our own cars this year so we went to cheer on Chris & Chris. The plan next year is that Alexander will have his own car to race. We just have to remember a head of time.

The following pictures are courtesy of Chris. Chris, I hope you don't mind that I copy & pasted your pictures but silly me didn't take any pictures and it was the first time in the stroller (not the carseat part).

The little guy just woke up from a small nap after a crying like a banshee session in Chris' house.

And then he took another small nap right before we left.

A Day in the Life...

A Day in the Life

As anyone who knows me, they know I take an obscene amount of pictures. So there's no surprising anyone that I would continue the tradition on with my child. I sent out an email recently with the Daily Picture Slideshow to show how Alexander changes over time.

I figured I would post the link here in case any of you have lost the email - you can check it from this link because I will continue to add pictures to the album for each day. Now don't yell at me if I don't add them each day because I haven't figured out how life will be once I go back to work, but I will do my best.

Enjoy, I know I do.