Merry Christmas eve

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Today we headed to my dad's house to celebrate Chrismas and then over to my aunt Nancy's. I forgot my camera, no pictures:(

Our 1st Christmas Celebration with Family

Saturday we celebrated Christmas with the Ugolini Family (Carmen's brother and family). Greg and Tracy hosted the get together this year. It is really fun seeing all of the children play together and how much they have grown. We look forward to the good food traditions as well. Uncle Pete brings his Antipasto, Angie makes her cream puffs, Aunt Linda makes her green Jello dessert, and Carmen brings shrimp and artichoke dip. YUMMY!

Kids by the tree before we left.

Cabo wanted his picture taken too.

Natalie looking so grown up!


Mia was my little buddy.


Santa baby.

Santa 2009

For the last 3 years we have made it a tradition to visit the Chesterfield Library for their Christmas celebration. The kids get to visit with Santa and we can take as many pictures as we want. The Santa looks the exact same too, he hasn't aged a bit ;), trust me Karli would notice. The kids also get to make a craft, this year they made ornaments. And they also provide hot cocoa and cookies. It's not crowded and it beats the mall any day! Here is a link to the previous pics of visiting santa. Click Here

Karli's bowling party

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Today we continued the festivities as we celebrated Karli's birthday at Imperial Lanes for a cosmic bowling party. Karli had a blast and I hope all of the other kids did too :)

Happy Birthday Karli!

We enjoyed Karli's birthday last night with her favorite food, macoroni and cheese. We sang Happy Birthday with her birthday cookie, since she really is not a cake fan :)

Birthday week

I find it hard to believe Karli will be 5 on Thursday Dec. 3. Where did the last 5 years go? She truly is a beautiful miracle and we are so lucky to have her as our daughter. I am so proud of her and who she has already become as a 5 year old. She is so smart, funny, compassionate, and loving. I hope she continues to grow up in this way. She is a great big sister too! Chris told her we would make her favorite dinner on her birthday and her request was Macaroni and cheese. That was also one of the things in school that she listed she was thankful for.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KARLI!

Other birthdays this week are...my sister in law Tracy and my niece Natalie. Happy Birthday to you!

Trick or treating

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We did the annual trick or treating event at Chris' parents house. The kids had fun, despite the chilly temps. Carmen's subdivision is becoming very popular it seemed like there were a lot of trick or treaters and many houses involved in passing out candy. Karli was so brave until at one house a very still scarecrow moved and frightened her. It was downhill from there. Even Cameron lasted a long time this year. He still wanted to pull the wagon. He had fun marching up to the houses saying "here we go.....here I come, trick or treat, and thank you." He also pointed out after he said thank you, that the person passing out the candy did not say you're welcome!