Playing the piano

Hannah got a toddler size grande piano from Blake and Kristen this year for Christmas. It's an electric keyboard and both the girls love it! I still think it's really funny to see the sit there on the stool like a big person and play the piano. I had to share a couple pictures!

As you can see, Ellie prefers to play in the nude...actually she perfers to do everything in the nude!

Christmas 2007

Christmas was a lot of fun this year. Hannah was very aware of what was coming. It started with our first trip to Walmart after Thanksgiving. She saw the Christmas decorations and said, "Christmas!! Mommy, I LOVE Christmas!!" Needless to say, it was an exciting advent! We went down to city hall for the tree lighting...we sort missed the actual lighting, but it was still fun....doesn't it look like everyone's having fun?

We stayed home for the holidays and started some new traditions. My parents and Chris and Kate joined us for a few days. It was great having them here. We ate as much as possible, watched movies, went in search of Christmas lights, went to mass on Christmas Eve and of course opened presents!

Cruising

Early in December, Andrew and I got to go on a cruise...just the two of us. Both sets of grandparents took turns babysitting so that we could go away for a few days. It was very relaxing and a lot of fun. I don't know whether or not you could really call us cruise people, but it was a freebie trip that Andrew won, so that made it even more enjoyable. We went to Cozumel and back (out of Galveston). While in Cozumel, we went to Passion Island for the day and did a lot of relaxing and eating. It's beautiful there...the scene of the Corona commercials and Corona is consequently the only beer they serve on the Island (population: 12!). We were very happy to see the girls when we got back. It was great to get away, but we missed them (even if they didn't even really notice we were gone)!

Thanksgiving

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving. It was fun to celebrate the day at our house for the first time. We had many Graesser's over plus Chris and Jess. It was a great day with lots of great food (everyone pitched in). Unfortunately, I don't think anyone thought to pull out the camera. :(

Then, the next day Andrew and I got to go to College Station for the A&M/t.u. game. It was great! We had awesome seats from friends of my parents and the weather was perfect...just cold enough to be considered football weather, but not so cold you'd rather be inside. And the icing on the cake...we won! Whoop!

Ellie is crawling!!

Ellie just started crawling on October 27th, just before her first birthday. Here's some video on youtube. She's really gotten moving!! Hannah's commentary is pretty funny, too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3J_w8bpWIyY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFCbQfquBeo

Fall 2007

We wanted to have a place to post our pictures and keep a log of family news, etc. and this seemed like the appropriate twenty-first century venue.

This fall has already been busy...We went to Boston as a family and just celebrated both the girls' birthdays as well as Halloween.

Boston was beautiful. We celebrated Hannah's birthday while we were there.

Then we came home and had a birthday party for Hannah and Ellie. Both the girls enjoyed their cake!

And... Halloween was lots of fun. Hannah thought it was really cool that those three little words ("Trick or Treat") could get her free candy!