The Christmas Season

Finally....some long-awaited Christmas pictures. These are the "before" Christmas pictures. I'll post Christmas Eve and Christmas Day together later.

This year, we decided to buy an artificial tree. We put it together while Halle was napping. All it had on it was the lights. When she woke up from her nap, her daddy brought her down to see the tree. She was still very sleepy, but was quite amazed at our 9-ft. Christmas tree. These pictures were of her first look at the tree....

These next few are after it was completely decorated. She absolutely loved the tree, and all the decorations, and did surprisingly well at not taking them off the tree! She had a few little ornaments at the bottom that we let her play with, and that seemed to satisfy her.

She loves her rocking chair (it was Brian's when he was little). She sits in it and says, "Ocky, ocky". She loves to rock her baby doll and her teddy bear.

Doesn't she look big here?

When we got out the greenery and lights to decorate the rest of the house, Halle wanted to sit in the box of greenery. She was being so adorable, I couldn't stop taking pictures!

So ornery!

All dressed up for church...

....so silly....

...and still quite sleepy!

She loves to "drink coffee" from Daddy's cup. (No, we don't really let her drink coffee!) But she says "hot" and also says, "coffee" very plainly.

Our neighbor, Carol, brought Halle an adorable little cat for her Christmas present. Halle was much more interested in Carol's cane!

Our family, all dressed up for a wedding rehearsal

Daddy's girl

Mommy's girl, too

Hurray, Steelers!

Alright, this is totally out of order (since I haven't posted any Christmas pictures yet), but I just had to post a few pictures of our Super Bowl watching party. We had several friends over after church, and had lots of fun (and several near heart attacks!) as the Steelers became the Super Bowl Champs.

Here Halle is sitting with my friend Mary Kay, and practicing her "touchdown" celebration.

Cheering with DaddyHalle and Mommy all decked out in our Steeler gear....my shirt complements of my hubby,

Halle's pajamas, complements of Aunt Red, and her jersey, a gift from our friend, Jeannine.

Celebrating after the game....well, sort of....Halle was more excited about the cup she was getting to play with!
Congratulations, Steelers!

We're Back!

Dear Friends,

Did you think we'd disappeared from the face of the earth? Well, we haven't! We've just had a wonderfully busy holiday season, and it really hasn't been any less busy since the new year started. I am going to try to get caught up on pictures and life in general since the last time I posted (which was Halle's birthday!).

So, this post is going to be Thanksgiving, and a few miscellaneous pictures. The next few will be the Christmas season, and hopefully, I'll be caught up soon!

Thanksgiving Day with Grampee Lott.....

....and Daddy....

....and Mommy.....

.....and there were more people there on Thanksgiving Day, but I got busy, and forgot to take more pictures! My apologies to Gramee.

The day after Thanksgiving, we had another family get together at Aunt Red and Uncle Bill's house, so everyone who couldn't come on Thanksgiving Day could visit with Tim and Kelsey and their boys, Beau and Judson. It was lots of fun!

This is Halle and Judson playing the "piano".

Gramee, Grampee, and the Grandkids.

I just love this! Halle doesn't look too excited about Beau holding her, and Beau looks very excited about getting his picture taken.

Halle and Uncle Rick

Beau and I were taking each other's pictures.

Alright, these are just some random fun pictures of Halle.

Here, she's trying to eat cheerios off of her tray.

"Look, Mom, no hands!"

Halle started doing this hilarious "silly face". We tried and tried to get a picture of her doing it. These are our efforts the night we finally "caught it".

Daddy encouraging her....

....almost there....
Silly face!

Halle is so funny, and loves to be the center of attention. If she does something that makes us laugh, then she wants to do it over and over so we'll keep laughing. It usually works!

More to come....soon......I hope!