Braden's Nursery!

Now that the Holidays are over, we've started to get Braden's nursery together....after all, he'll be here in 9 short weeks! We originally were going to do an airplane theme but all the aviator nursery bedding we liked was out of stock. Go figure. So, Jeff suggested a jungle theme instead since we already have some hand-painted jungle characters hanging in the nursery which also hung in Jeff's nursery when he was a baby!

Below is Braden's new bedding! Greens & blues...


See how spotless this room is? It wasn't this way a week ago. It had hand me down clothes and blankets EVERYWHERE. I went through everything and sorted all items into different piles. That is as far as I got, it was just too overwhelming. Jeff took over and literally did 12+ loads of laundry...and I'm talking he folded and put away everything too. I was SO THANKFUL! He cleaned & organized the room like a true engineer would :-) He is the best!

Now we just need to pick out our paint color and new curtains. We'll focus on that after Madeleine's big 3-year birthday party this weekend! I can't believe big sissy is already turning 3!!!

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year! We rang in 2011 with the Hallali family! We had a great time! We had dinner, played some Wii and watched the ball drop in NYC at 9pm our time and headed home before all the crazies were out driving around. Madeleine LOVES to play with the older girls...we didn't hear a peep from her the entire night. We went to check on her a few times through out the night to make sure she was okay but she was just happily playing with the girls. It gave Jeff & I some much needed adult time with friends! Happy New Year!

I got a Happy New Year's kiss from both Madeleine & Jeff!

Amy & I

The girls saying good-bye to Madeleine

Watching a movie :-)

Happy New Year!!!

Daddy gets a New Year's kiss too!

All the girls LOVED running outside to shout Happy New Years! So funny!

Almost 3!!!

Here is Madeleine enjoying her free birthday scoop of ice cream from Baskin Robbins! Yum!

Madeleine's 3-year photos!

We went to have Madeleine's 3-year photos done over the weekend! They turned out pretty cute! We also had some maternity ones done but they didn't turn out so well. Enjoy!

More Snow!

We woke up to snow this morning! I was quite surprised. Madeleine made a few snow angels, we went sledding and she made a baby snowman!

Christmas Morning!

Ho! Ho! Ho! Merry Christmas!

We had a fun, quiet Christmas morning with just the three of us! Madeleine slept in and Jeff & I anxiously waited for her to wake up. As soon as she did, I ran up to get her and Jeff got the video camera going. We couldn't wait for her to see her BIG present from Santa...a new bike! She was very excited to see her new princess bicycle and the other gifts Santa left for her. She also checked to see if Santa had eaten his cookie and if the reindeer had eaten their carrots. They did!!!

It was cute to listen to everything she said while opening presents! She would say things like, "oh wow", or scream/laugh in delight. So fun to watch! After our busy morning of opening presents, my family came over for a Christmas lunch. Jeff made us watch The Christmas Story a million times which my dad enjoyed. We had a very merry day :-)

Madeleine received a pillow pet from her Grandma JJ & GG in Texas. You can see how excited she was! She immediately took it to her room and put it on her bed. She sleeps with it every night.

Madeleine received another present by mail, a music wand from Aunt Sarah & Gail. She danced all around the room with it!

Here she is on her new bike! A tad too big so we'll all have to wait a few months to try it out. In the mean time, she has a new scooter from Grandpa & Grandma Schroeder!

29 1/2 Weeks!

I can't believe I only have about 10 weeks to go! This pregnancy has flown by. Jeff & I need to get organized!