Christmas

We had a few Christmas celebrations this year. We spent Christmas day with the Peters. It was a quiet Christmas with just us and Chuck and Jo Ann.

Grace helping to open Faith's present. Grace really got into opening gift this year and had a great time.

Trying out the sled they got from Grandma and Grandpa. Grace said "too heavy" to having Faith sit on her lap.

Grace and the animals at Grandpa and Grandma's house. She always likes to take them out and play with them.

Grace always plays with her hair when she goes to sleep. The other day I found her during her nap sleeping on the floor with a giant tangle in her hair.

The girls sitting on their new toy chest (okay, maybe this gift was more for me so that I can have a cleaner house:)

We were able to spend a very enjoyable Christmas Eve together with our little family. I made a fun supper and we opened presents together.

Grace trying out the sled.

Faith got a ride too, but I didn't get a picgture of it. Her she is all bundled up after her sled ride.

We celebrated with family the weekend before Christmas. Mom and Dad went out to Portland to visit Abby and Sam and Sarah were in Texas this year. We have a New Year's Eve get together with some friends on Thursday and then the extended Flantz Christmas on the 10th. I love all the family gatherings this time of year!

Nick thought this would be funny. I was in the house with Faith while they were cutting down the tree.

Grace's decorating. All the ornaments she put on ended up on the same branch.

Opening her birthday gifts

Marta and Faith

Thanksgiving

Guess I've been busy lately since I haven't blogged for awhile!

Gracie is now two! We celebrated her birthday with family on the 22nd. She didn't understand what was going on, but she certainly liked getting all the attention.

Marta and Sebastian were back for Thanksgiving. They were here for about a week so we got to spend lots of time with them!!! Of course Gracie just wanted to play with Marta the whole time.

The weekend of Grace's birthday Nick finally got all the corn out. It seemed like such a long harvest this year. I certainly did miss having him around in the evenings, especially with me being home all day. Grace got in a few combine rides so that gave me a break too! Nick took off Friday after Thanksgiving. It felt odd, but good, having him home for four days in a row.

Lately we have just been getting ready for Christmas. I only have one last gift to get and then I'm done with all my shopping! I've been playing Christmas music and baking Christmas cookies. This last weekend we got our tree up and decorated. We cut a tree from our yard and it looks great in the house. This was the first year Grace got into decorating. Only one ornament was broken and although she wanted to play with them instead of putting them on the tree, most of did eventually get put up.

Faith is growing and changing so much! She rolls over all the time. She wants to be sitting up and in the the action, but can't quite sit on her own yet. She has recenlty started to suck her thumb and had her first taste of rice cereal the other day.

Gracie is getting more talkative everyday (about 3/4 of it is understandable). She is doing well sleeping in her toddler bed and is starting to get the hang of potty training.