My First Christmas

Santa showed up with his bag of gifts (in a Macy's bag - of course)

Hands going straight for the beard....

She loved opening the gifts (and trying to get the paper in her mouth)

Such excitement and curiosity for a new toy!

All of us with Santa

My Special Christmas Dress

I insisted that Violet get a special Christmas dress. Randy was less than thrilled, but when I found this cute little dress on sale, we couldn't resist. Poor Violet was actually sick on Christmas day with a fever, but she didn't let it get her down! She had a great first Christmas and even met Santa. Here is her special dress.

Daddy and baby

This is my favorite face that she makes right now

What color are my eyes? Randy says green I say blue, guess we have keep waiting to find out.

Christmas Eve

It's Christmas Eve, and Grandma DeGroot brought the blocks out to play with. All Violet wanted to do was eat them. Patience was a little bit jealous of the attention to Violet, but soon got over it.

Hello Tree

Violet me Therese (otherwise known as Tree to me) on our fun road trip. She had a great time playing with her Auntie Tree, and even got a cute outfit. If I look like I got 2 hours of sleep in the photo, that's because I did. Love you Tree!

18 Hours in the Car....

We had quite an adventure over our holiday vacation. As you can see from my prior post we had a great time in southern California, and I'm just now getting around to uploading the 125 pictures we took over the 10 days we were out of town (that many? WOW).
So I will be sifting through the photos over the next few days, I started back at work this week full time this week, so as you can imagine I haven't had as much free time.
This is our first leg of the trip, we drove to Medford then onto Visalia (my hometown) .

Violet sleeping

Randy driving over the pass

The pass, we were very lucky we had no snow on the road!

Diego - in the front seat....