The Night Before Christmas

Here is a video of Mark and Makenna listening to the book, "The Night Before Christmas" that my parents recorded for them. It was so nice!

Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve with Granma and Grandpa J
Mother and Daughter

Our Family 2009

After putting out cookies and milk for Santa

We spent Christmas Eve with Matthew's family after going to church. The kids had a great time playing there that we didn't even get home until 10pm! They still wanted to put their cookies and milk out for Santa and they still got out their "Night Before Christmas" book that they got from Grandma and Grandpa H. Matt also got on his laptop to show Mark and Makenna where Santa was and since he was heading our way they had to get to bed. It was a fun night.

Christmas in PA

Grandpa showing them the book they got them
Mark shooting his new Nerf Dart Gun from Uncle Ryan

Makenna trying to lounge in her new chair from Grandma and Grandpa H

We went out to PA a couple of weeks ago to spend Christmas with my family. We had such a great time and the kids had a blast. They just love playing with their cousins Madison and Bryce and all of their Aunts and Uncles. Here are a couple pictures, but a video that is just too funny. (Yes, we were all dressed in Steelers because we had the fortunate opportunity to all go to the Steelers/Packers game that day and watch the Steelers pull out an AMAZING Win!)

Christmas Tree Lights

Here are some pictures of Mark and Makenna from earlier this month when they were putting the lights in a ceramic Christmas Tree that I got from my Grandma. This was always one of my favorite things to do at Christmas time. They both loved doing it as well. I hope this starts a tradition with them that is as important as it was to me.

Sunday Best

Here are some pictures of Mark and Makenna all dressed up and ready to go to Church.

The Ring Bearer and The Flower Girl

Sitting on a pew waiting for it to begin
Checking out her basket of flowers

Our Handsome little man

(FYI...he wanted to save the flower so it's on his dresser in his room!)

Being so cute

Still Hanging out before the wedding

Judy did a GREAT job on her hair!

Here are some pictures of Mark and Makenna as Ring Bearer and Flower Girl before Erin's Wedding. Enjoy our Beautiful and Handsome Couple!

Flower Girl Take 2

Continuing to throw the flowers

Still throwing...not all gone yet...

The finished product!!!


Makenna was a flower girl again this past weekend in our friend Erin's wedding. This time Mark was the ring bearer and he loved it. They did so great and we couldn't have asked for anything better. We were a little nervous because when Judy put her dress on her to get her ready she started screaming that she wasn't going to wear the dress. Then she didn't even want her to do her hair. Judy did a great job convincing her and she finally agreed, but wasn't happy about it. As soon as we got her to the church she was okay. I think she just needed a little distraction from the dress. Her and Mark did great walking down the isle. I have the video of Makenna and Mark walking down the isle, but again stopped the video too soon. I thought that when I shut off the video that Makenna and Mark would sit down next to me...but little did I know that Makenna wouldn't stop until every single flower petal was thrown out of her basket. And heaven forbid one of the petals fell off of the runner. If it did, she would pick it up and throw it back down again until it was on the runner. So there ended up being a few flower petals down the isle and then one big pile. The other problem was Erin and her dad had already started down the isle when she was doing that so they had to walk by her as she was still throwing flower petals down! Overall though, I think they both did great!