Sunday, December 14, 2008

Yesterday we went early in the morning for our 3rd annual trip to Macy's to the 8th floor Christmas exhibit! We met the McGuires walked through the exhibit and then had a visit with Santa. Carina did really well - Sam was okay at first then turned around looked at the big guy with the white beard and decided he wanted down! Very cute!
After the exhibit we went to grab some brunch...
happy Paige


Crazy Sam - this is my "new" Sam with personality!





showing their action moves after the exhibit
Sam having a cookie while waiting to see Santa

Santa's workshop





these were really cool singing Christmas trees - the picture doesn't do it justice
Carina and Gannon

Checking out the exhibit
Paige Marie


At the beginning- The Day in the Life of an Elf








Last weekend we spent the weekend in Wisconsin at the Wiltz house. We were able to celebrate Thanksgiving/Christmas with Jeff's aunt Karen, Uncle Bob, cousin Karaline and the Purdy's (Hoosh and Jack), Jeff's Grandma (Re Re), good friend Peggy and the Mundo's (Jeff's sister Jenny, brother in-law (Tony) and the crew (Nathan, Jillian, Dillon and Gavin).

We had a really good time. Carina and Sam had a great time playing in the snow with the cousins and Uncle Bob, visiting with Hoosh, Jack and the aunts and uncles! It was good to see everyone. We want to thank Karen and Bob for hosting us!!
Peggy, Carina, Jillian and Gavin
Hoosh putting Sam to sleep


The cousins - except Nathan I don't think he was down stairs yet - Dillion, Carina, Sam, Jillian and Gavin


Gavin sporting a show hat!



Jillian, Karaline and Carina - Karaline was the dance helper for the girls.



Carina and Jilly putting on a dance show - Carina was shy and a lot tired!


ReRe and Sam


Jillian and Carina





Uncle Tony and Sam. Uncle Tony was witness to Sammy standing for at least 1/2 a minute by himself!


Gavin getting ready to jump- Nathan helping
Nathan and Sam

Fun with Uncle Jeff


Hoosh helping Gavin and Sam



Sunday, November 30, 2008

The finished product!
taking the net off
Carina helping the workers put net on the tree
taking the tree back to the wagon
The tree almost fell on him!
still going...
Now he's on his back
Jeff beginning to cut it down...
There it is - our Christmas tree
Sam and Jeff keeping warm... - it actually was a really good day to get the tree - the weather was not too cold (as far as Minnesota goes)!
Jeff and Carina on the wagon ride
We ended up in Somerset Wisconsin. This tree farm was really cool - they had a little play ground area for kids and some sweet treats and a wagon ride to find your perfect tree!




On Saturday we decided to do a Clark Griswold Christmas - so we loaded up the car and went to find our perfect Christmas tree! Here is Carina giving the thumbs up!
For Thanksgiving we went out to eat and then I made a meal on Saturday. Carina and Sam had a good time as did Jeff and I. It was nice to have some time out of the house with good food!









Friday, November 21, 2008

Jeff and I were getting sentimental one night and started looking back at Carina and her Christmas pictures. I thought it might be fun to share Carina's Christmases over the past 3 years.
Carina Christmas 2007
Christmas 2007
Christmas 2007
Christmas 2007
Carina Christmas 2006
Christmas 2006
1st Christmas 2005
Christmas 2005
Christmas 2005