niece # 4!

Casey and I are going to be a new Aunt and Uncle,again!  Matt and Stacey are having another little girl! Due early June, is baby Sophie. Please keep them all in your prayers while they continue to work and live in Haiti.

Thank you!

Holiday and Family Fun

Nico got to hang out with Lily, Uncle Matt, and Aunt Stacey, this past week! What awesome family time we had. He loved sitting at the "big kid" table with Lily and chasing her around the house yelling, "Yil-ye".

Nico playing the guitar with Aunt Stacey or Tatey as he says.

Christmas Eve service at Sharptown. What a wonderful family service it was. Nico loved the puppet show. Lily LOVED singing Happy Birthday Jesus and got so excited at the end of service, running up to find baby Jesus for his birthday and wanting to hold him. Nico was extremely happy about Jesus' s birthday cake :)

Christmas morning

Out of all the "new" gifts that Nico got, he still just wanted to play with good ol' tigger.

The two Ayars babies. What amazing gifts the two children are.

Lily in her new bee outfit, playing with Uncle Casey and her new baby playing with Mommy.

Casey being Santa, passing out presents.

Merry Christmas to all!

It has come!

One of our favorite days of the year, the Giordano 13 fish dinner! Every year we are blessed to be invited to Aunt Candy and Uncle Angelo's house for their family Christmas.  It is such a great time with family, good food, lots of laughing, and just a loving place to be. The love they have for their family and friends is out of this world. We are so thankful that we and now, Nico get to be a part of it.

Nico had a blast! He loved playing with the other kids, running up and down the hallway, hanging out with Uncle Ang, and of course, the FOOD!

Oh ,the fun!

(Cheese)

What a weekend! Nico has completely changed from our chill, layed back baby, to a wild and crazy little boy! To start, Saturday morning Nico went to Ms. Shawna's house to get some christmas pictures taken. Well, instead of smiles, we got monkey noises and actions, cow moooos, standing on the chair, playing the piano that NO one was allowed to help him with, a broken train, and oh, woof woof, there's a dog!  Busy busy : )  For anyone who only has girls, boys are NUTS! Nico climbs up things, runs like crazy, loves to wrestle, but still finds the time to be sweet with Mommy. Love my boys!

Then it was off to the J-Bear Jingle Bell Rock Party!  There was SO much going on, Nico held on to Daddy for dear life. I have never seen him hold on so tight. He didn't like the bear, gave a high 5 to the Pink Panther, and we didn't attempt Santa. Still too little.

After, we went back to Mom mom's house to hang out with Uncle Joe and Aunt Susie, Titi Bernie, Gigi (great grand-mom), Lexi and Gianna. We had a delicious ham dinner, which Nico out ate everyone. The kiddies "rearranged" Mom mom's cabinets : ) and then... time to decorate the tree. Or so we thought?! Mom mom got a 10.5ft tall tree to fit into a 8.5ft tall room! We butchered it! We didn't have a chance to decorate it, but it's up.

Next week, Uncle Matt, Aunt Stacey, and Lily will be here!  Everytime Nico sees a picture of Lily, it's Yil-ye!  We will see if he says it when she's here.