aaaahhhhhh!!!!

time sure does fly! i haven't had much of a chance to update my blog. but here is another update of something we did while home in canada.



many of my family's friends wanted to meet lilyanna while we were home, so we thought having people come to my parents' house would mean that we get to see many more people than if i made individual appointment at their houses. so we had a "sip'n'see" for lilyanna----a chance for people to come sip a drink and see our baby! it was a fun day of friends dropping in and visiting with us. it was nice also for teddy to meet some of our friends and see, again, some of our friends he'd met before.



here are a few photos from that day: auntie amy and i preparing some of the treats. lilyanna resting up for the big aftrnoon.

some special friends........erika (a friend i grew up with), her husband shawn and her father, grampy eric.

part of the spread of treats with joanne and sandy in the background.

the oh-so-serious lilyanna.

the changs!

more people, including nana and grampy mckay and nanny dora and grampy parker.

christmas at the thornes!

it has been a busy trip back home, so i have had very little time to make updates. we are in milwaukee right now visiting teddy's brother and sister-in-law and i am only now getting a chance to post. i hope everyone had a merry christmas and a happy new year. here is a post about our christmas:

it was great to spend christmas all together. we all went to the thornes in rothesay and had a great time. wendy was even 9 months pregnant and did a great job hosting 10 guests (including aunt marj from ontario)!
here are all 13 of us!
lilyanna, sitting on daddy's lap, getting her first stocking!
malory came over to see what lilyanna got in her stocking.
mallory gets into her stocking to see what's inside.

lilyanna's first christmas! our christmas angel!

enjoying some time with grampy.

momma, mallory and lilyanna on christmas eve.