Christmas with The Morris Family

Christmas Day was with Jake's family in the morning at his Grandma's. They got about 10+ inchs of snow there that day! It was crazy but georgeous! We had a lot of fun and it was so great to have family in from Iowa - hopefully we'll see more of them in the years to come! Anyhow - again, I am lacking with how many pics I took at later that day we went to my Aunts and I only got pics of the girls with my grandparents. Holidays are tough for pics - I tell ya what!

The girls with cousin Mel in their cute dresses Great Grandma Lois bought them

Grandma and Grandpa Mo with Uncle Ron in the background

Jake and his sister

Great Grandparents

So my goal was to get pictures of the girls with all of their Great Grandparents and. . . .I FAILED! Urgh! We went to Jake's Grandma's house Christmas morning and had a wonderful time but I tell ya - I don't think that lady sat down for a second and I missed getting a picture of her with the girls. I'm SO bummed and HAVE to make it a point next time we get together!

I have to laugh at my Grandparents though - I don't know what's tougher. . . getting the girls to look and smile or getting the Great Grandparents to look and smile or in Great Grandma Crisman's case - look with her eyes open. =) I think we got a couple good pics though!

Christmas Eve Service

We had a wonderful Candle Light Christmas Eve service at church. The message was wonderful and the worship was beautiful! Below are pictures of Our new Pastor reading to the kids. this is the first church thing that Reagan has had the opportunity to be part of - it was cute to see her run up there with excitement! She's sucha big girl now! It's too cute.

Reagan and her little friend Ellie seem more interested in the others around them than the Pastor reading. =)

Reagan and her friend Ellie

Christmas Eve Posed

Here are the girls in their Chrismas Eve dresses. These are the ones I bought this year. So here are some posed shots.

Our Sweet Reagan

Baby Cakes Taylor and Princess Reagan

Girls being silly

Girls being serious (this one cracks me up)

Christmas Eve at Mana's and Papa's

Our Christmas was BUSY! We had a wonderful time though and spent some time on Christmas morning - just the four of us - reflecting on Christ's birth and blessings. Reagan is still singing Happy Birthday Jesus!

Side note: (Please excuse the poor quality of my pics on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day)

These are from Heather's parents house - we had a great time but I am lacking in pics so here's a couple I did take.

Taylor's first experience with presents - seems like she's enjoying herself!

Reagan with TeeTee

She's already 2 and 1/2!!!

Yep! This chunky little 3 month old is now the Big Sister!

She is such a sweetheart and has so much love for everyone around her! She's the apple of our eye and adored by her baby sis! Reagan is getting so big and she's so smart - she's amazing us everyday! She is SO independant (as a 2 year always is) and does EVERYTHING by herself. She even goes potty in the publics stalls with Mommy right outside. She pretty much dresses herself (shirts are kinda tough at times).She knows her letters and numbers to about 15 (most by sight as well). She's speaking so much more clearly. She loves gymnastics and dressing up, she's quite the little princess with Taylor at her heels. She's always signing and dancing and still loves her books. When Mommy lets her - anything crafty or messy is always a hitr but the girly girl thinks mixing chocolate chips into cookie dough is "nasty". Speaking of nasty our big girl (still proving she's little) stuck her finger quickly into a public toilet and licked it. Mom was beside herself with disgust but she knows better now and hey - a story for the boyfriends right!? She's also a huge fan of eating snow - again "NASTY" =).

Here she is trying to hug the cats - she has her hands pretty full! =) LOL! These poor cats - they won't admit it but we know they love it!

And these last two pics are of her posing (this is her new thing) - I think she looks like such a big girl in these!

Rice Cereal - 2nd Try!

Okay so, we're getting closer but still not quite there - at least she's enjoying it this time. We'll be trying again after Christmas - better timing for Mommy then anyhow. BTW - her hair isn't red but it sure looks red in these. . . . . . . . .

I've Gotta feed my Baby!

So Taylor gets Breast and Bottle Fed and as you can see from the pics beloow - so does "Yellow Baby". =)

Zoo Lights!

So - Jake and I have been to Zoo Lights almost every year since we've been dating and we're continuing the tradition with the girls. This year we invited both sets of Grandparents and Auntie Liz and Cousin Melody. We all had a great time although it was freezing (I wasn't layered up enough - that's for sure)! Hopefully next year will be warmer!

Sitting Pretty!

Look who's almost sitting up! Taylor is 5.5 months in these pics and she's doing pretty well with the whole sitting up thing! She's got it with support so a couple more weeks and she'll have it down. And as you can see - she loves hanging with her sister! Oh and sorry these aren't the best pics - lighting was really odd that morning!