Katelyn was itching to open presents. But of course, Abby pulled an “I’m down for the night” at 4:30 for the second day in a row. So I tried to distract her by making her sit and stare at the tree and presents while I took pictures. Then she pulled a classic Katelyn move and…

Like many other families, we like to poison our bodies with sweets during the Christmas season. We made all the old Sal standbys—pecan sandies and candy cane cookies. Plus, we added homemade caramels this year and they were delicious!  Here we are making candy cane cookies. (hmmm…shoulda cropped that picture)   “No eat it!” Oh…

A few days after Thanksgiving Abby turned four months. At her checkup, her doctor suggested that we start some serious sleep training. Up to that point, she slept in her car seat for most of her naps, in a swing for the first stretch or two at night, and in our bed for the rest….

We were lucky to have another year with a one week vacation for Thanksgiving.  This year we also had the special treat of having Devin’s sister Megan and her family come to stay with us for nearly the whole week.  It was a week packed with fun. We went to the zoo. Which really isn’t…

With the arrival of Abby and her…uh, difficultness, Katelyn has learned to embrace the TV. She never cared for it before until Devin took the liberty of putting Winnie the Pooh videos on the TiVo. After that, there was no turning back. One day she wanted to play outside with the umbrella where for about…

Back in October we took a trip to Utah for a few days. Here are a few of the highlights. We stayed with Devin’s sister and her family where Katelyn enjoyed plenty of play time with her cousin Brooklyn. We had a pajama party which lasted just long enough to snap a picture and concluded…

Since Abby came around, we came to realize that we are probably going to be in this apartment for some time longer. How long, we aren’t sure. But I figured I should but some sort of personal touch to it. So now in girls’ room there are some decorations. Finally. I saw these cute little…

    Just a few quick pictures to let you know we are all still alive. Abby is smiling more than ever and we love it. Yesterday we got a good giggle out of her.  Though we have yet to duplicate it, we were lucky enough to get it on video. Hopefully that’ll be posted…

I think we got a decent one.