Sierra Week 51- Part I - Christmas Eve

What a week!  Three Christmas celebrations - all the family together and an amazing pile of gifts and great food.  I must say Sierra had a great introduction to Christmas!  We started out with Christmas Eve at GiGi and PopPop's house.  Uncle Sean, Aunt Jo and Devon joined us.  Decorating the Train cake was great fun!

Sierra enjoyed her dinner!

 As did everyone else!

Sierra did a great job with her first time opening presents.  Though I did help her out!  Such fun to see what is under that pretty paper.  In true kid fashion - Sierra's biggest interest was which box she could climb on top of!

I learned that the way to a ladies heart is through jewelry that I made!

And after a great night at GiGi and PopPop's we headed home and wrapped up the night with a reading of the "Night Before Christmas".  I hope everyone has sugar plums dancing in their dreams tonight!

Sierra Week 50 - Fun to be Kids

This week was really an in between kind of week, but that didn't stop the fun.  Sierra and I made it outside for a bit of playtime, even though it was quite cold.  Who would have thought that she could walk in that snow suit of hers!

But lucky for her she figured it out, because she experienced her first snow this week too!

I of course did not let a little cold weather stop the outdoor fun.  The Gator works great in the cold - as does a little game of Tackle Daddy!

But there is only so much time you can spend outside when its winter time.  So Momma introduced me to a fun new past time... "Licking the spoon".  We made some brownies and Momma was kind enough to let me have the honors. Yum!

Not to be left out of the cute kid with food all over their face activities, Sierra offers up this "Italian Baby Picture".  Great Grammy would be so proud!

And if you are wondering if in the last year how Momma has done trying to get all three kids in one picture, here is her best winter season shot.  Wish her luck next year when there are 4 to corral.

We hope everyone is keeping warm and snuggly.  We are!

Sierra Week 49 - Christmas Tree Hunting - Woof!

Momma, Daddy, Sierra and I were all set to head out for our annual Christmas tree hunt this week.  Then I found out the great news, Nanny was coming with us too!  We went back to the same tree farm as last year to find the perfect "dog" tree.  That's right, no monsters this year.  When Momma asked me what kind of tree I wanted I was quick to say and stick to "dog".  So let the hunt begin!

Though Sierra was quick to point out a tree, she soon learned about Momma's "lets keep looking" thoughts.  Sierra and I tried to tag team on this little guy, but Momma wasn't having it.

And of course Momma insisted on a mini photo session.  Here are two favorites... Who is that guy in the red suit?

And then we found our "dog" tree.  After Daddy cut him down I helped to haul him out to be loaded onto the mini-van.

It was another great family adventure!

Everyone please welcome the newest member of our family - "Blue Tree Dog".

Sierra Week - 48 Meeting Santa

Well, the momentous moment has arrived, time to meet Santa again this year.  Thanks to the Papa John's Pizza guy Momma and Daddy were alerted to the fact that Santa was coming to Pennington this Saturday night for his annual bank visit.  Since we were a bit late coming to find the information, we missed all the crowds.  In true Momma fashion we were bundled up for the walk up to town.

After waiting patiently we made it into the bank.  And with the help of Sierra's flirting smile we were able to walk over to the Christmas Tree they had set up.

Momma snapped one picture and the camera battery decided it was time for a long winters nap.  She was not a happy Momma.  So somewhere at Photo Haven there is a copy of Sierra on Santa's lap.  I of course, would have nothing to do with him.  Maybe next year!

Sierra Week - 47 Happy Thanksgiving 2010

After two days of preparation and a Momma who didn't sleep much Thanksgiving Day finally arrived!  We celebrated by hosting Grandma, Aunt Janet, GiGi and PopPop.  Momma cooked a big meal that I helped make!  My favorite of course was the chocolate cake!

After a yummy dinner it was time to play.  But something funny happened... For the first time Momma took a nap but I didn't!  Thank goodness I had all those grandparents to play with!

You might think that Thanksgiving dinner would have been the big event for the weekend.  But Black Friday brought a big surprise.  Momma and Daddy came home from running "errands" with a new mini-van.  Seems with my new sister on the way, the pilot was not going to have enough seating.

I think the mini-van is like a limo.  I'm pretty happy with my new ride!

Momma and Daddy weren't the only ones with a "new set of wheels" this week.  Seems the birthday fairy forgot to give me one of my presents.  A new big kid bike.  After a couple practice sessions I am riding it "super fast" around my basement.  Watch out world, here I come!

On Sunday to celebrate the fact that Momma canceled her final trip to India, we took a trip over to the park.  Momma captures a few pictures of Sierra before her camera battery decided to give out on her.

She also managed to capture some bath time pictures of us - G rated of course!  You think I could get her to style my hair this way normally?

Sierra took hairstyling to a whole new level with this "bucket" look.  Do you think the will be walking the runways of Paris wearing hats like this?

We hope everyone had a Happy Turkey Day!

Week 46 - A Day Out with Thomas

I just couldn't wait for this weekend to get here!  Grandma bought us tickets for a train ride on Thomas the Tank Engine in Lancaster County.  First we went over to Grandma's to sleep over so we had a shorter drive to see Thomas in the morning.  Playing at Grandma's house was great fun.  After a good nights rest it was time to see...

We waited our turn in line and then got on Thomas for our train ride.  Momma and Daddy are happy to report that I was much happier this year.  We sat in the coach train for our ride.

Even Sierra seemed to like the trip!  She did a great job pointing out things to Grandma and Daddy as the train went by them.

After our ride it was time to get our picture with Thomas.  We had to wait a bit but it was worth it!

Afterwards Momma wanted to take some more pictures of Sierra and I with the other trains.  And though SiSi would sit on the tracks I told Momma it wasn't a good idea and was not willing to get in the pictures.  Momma couldn't argue with me at that point, because I know the rules...  =+)

Happy Pre-Thanksgiving!

Week 45 - MIA

Momma was missing in action this week since she had to go to India for work.  So we don't have any pictures to share, but we do have some news.  Sierra seems to save her big new scary skill development for while Momma is away.  She is pretty smart that way...

So the big news is that this week Sierra figured out how to climb up the 3 foot tall ladder to the basement slide, sit down, go down the slide and climb out of the ball pit all on her own!

My little sister is FIERCE!