Christmas: We spent Christmas in Pennsylvania with my family and had a very nice visit. Immediately after Christmas day several of us discovered how bad we were with taking pictures this year and we have no idea why. Rob did a great job of videoing everyone opening presents but there were not many snap shots taken. Sierra was given a baby doll and stroller which she fell in love with and wasn't interested in opening any other presents (not even the soccer ball that I tried to prove was much more fun than a baby doll). It was a great day but long for us as we drove over night from NH and arrived around 7am. A few days after Christmas we had to say bye-bye to Rob since he needed to be back in NH for work and Sierra and I got to stay in PA through New Years Day. We spent several days with Andy, Kathy, Austin and Brayden. Sierra is still working on 'playing nice' with her cousin Austin. He was great and wanted to play with her while she preferred to scream whenever he was near. I did manage to get a nice picture of the cousins taking a yogurt break together.
Finally New Years Eve came and I was able to get out on my own to spend some time with my aunts, cousins and PopPop (I have no pictures of that event either). Sierra spent New Years Eve with her grandparents and provided some entertainment for their friends from church. But I think by this point in the vacation she was ready to get back to her familiar surroundings back home. Here is my favorite picture from her celebrations...
That brings us to January. The only really remarkable thing is the amount of snow we got this month. Each week we were getting more and that usually meant another 8-10 inches. so this was the typical view out our living room window...
And that also meant...
ICE! Unfortunately because of this ice we have had numerous leaks into our kitchen and one night Rob was even on the kitchen roof pounding away at a foot of ice at 1 in the morning! The good news is that my handy husband can take care of these issues but at some point during the warmer months we will be dishing out some money for re-shingling the roof and redoing the ceiling in the kitchen.In further Sierra news, she's definitely growing! I could tell by the fact that her one pair of pants can no longer cover her bum each time she bends over. It was pretty funny watching her walk around with the waist of her pants sitting below her bum.
A few other day to day pictures: this is what our mornings look like
Acting a little crazy throughout the day:
And finally Sierra had her first attempt at dress up the other day. I was trying to get her dressed for the day but she was more interested in her basket of hats and mittens. She had me put TWO of her hats on her plus one pair of mittens and then ran away from me when I tried to get pants and a long sleeve shirt on. So I took a picture:
