Our first Christmas

• Xmas eve with grammy and pops (and thom and steph of course)
  
• We slept late - not anxious to hurry and get to the presents as our best gift was snuggled up in bed with us laughing and talking as we greeted the day
• It snowed - our first snow on christmas ever (it's supposed to snow more tomorrow so maybe we'll get some photos of it)
  
• dalia totally enjoyed gift opening in the morning with mom and dad and in the evening with grammy and pops (wow did we get a lot of great stuff)
• we had a christmas bath (which she got a naked in front of the xmas tree photo for)
• we took a long nap in the sling that included a walk up the street to see the neighbors
• a super rad day, but we missed uncle jim and aunt ali

a horsey a horsey a horsey oh my

Here is a video of dalia's first xmas present. Thanks Grammy Karen. Hope this makes you feel better. More photos to come soon.

Dalia's great uncle

Dalia's great uncle Rob (Pop's youngest brother) came to town for business. We were so excited to get to introduce him to Dalia. He's our closest extended relative and we love seeing him. Come back soon and play some more guitar!

bumbo fun?

Now I'm cracking up. These facial expressions are priceless. She is a little small for the bumbo still, and was working hard to stay upright.

Cracking up

Laughter is really the best thing ever. I have a feeling Mark would do just about anything to get her to laugh. Notice, though, that as soon as she sees the camera it all stops. She is so aware of what the camera is now, it's hilarious.

Xmas tree day

The great and novel thing about living in Oregon is that we get to go cut down the tree that we would have had to buy in a parking lot in California. It's so much fun and usually doesn't take very long. We did our share of lolygaging just for the experience. It was a beautiful and cold day. Dalia slept the whole time.



This very same day we had a photo shoot AND she sat in the bumbo for the first time. What a strong neck! She seemed to like it for a few minutes. . . everything for a few minutes.

Uncle Jimmy!!!!!!

These are late getting posted. Jimmy was actually here before the crib action, which is going very well. We were so excited to have him here. Can't wait to see him and Aunt Ali soon. Aunt Ali gave us this awesome hat (unfortunately hats don't stay on Dalia long, but she seemed rather pleased to be in this one).