Christmas Card Pictures

This weekend we attempted to get some pictures for our annual Christmas Card. We used to think it was hard to take pictures of just Brendan & Dylan together. Try adding a squirmy little 16 month old to the mix. I think I must have taken about 30 pictures and the 2 you see above of the 3 of them together is the best it gets! The other 2 pictures of Maddie in the blue dress were taken on Friday before we went to a Christmas party. We took her with us and she was very good. She is now walking everywhere, all of the time and is starting to talk much more. Her new words are "up" and "uh, oh".

One Year Ago (yesterday)

I was disappointed that I couldn't post this yesterday but our internet was down until this morning. One year ago (yesterday) December 11, 2007 @ around 6:00 p.m. we got our "call" from our agency with our referral. Little did we know at the time all that we would have to go through in the following 9 months before we got to hold our sweet Maddison. But I think we can agree that it was all well worth it!

Maddie's First Thanksgiving

We celebrated Thanksgiving with Dad & Donna in Myrtle Beach this year. The kids had a really fun day. Maddie LOVED her first Thanksgiving dinner, I think the mashed potatoes were her favorite. The rest of the weekend we just took it easy and got some of our Christmas decorations out. We had to wonder what Maddie thought of all of the Christmas lights, Santa hats & reindeer antlers, not to mention a big tree in the middle of our living room.