gia's first christmas

We had such a great time over the past few days celebrating christmas and then getting snowed in by a huge blizzard! We had christmas eve at our house for the first time. It was a success! I baked cookies, made yummy appetizers and we had a seafood feast :)
We used our dining room for the first time ever, pathetic right?!
Here is Gia being a good girl while we set everything up...

The table all set. We got these fun red wine glasses that were nice and festive and we used our china for the first time too!

Gias Seat

Sadie was all ready to go

 Gia all dressed and ready in her jumperoo

Some shots from dinner

All ready for Santa with my Gigi <3

The next morning we woke up and Santa had definitely made a visit during the night, look at all those presents!

We were trying to get a family shot using the timer... came out pretty good!

 

Sadie of course had to get in for a picture

The aftermath

 Gia getting ready to open her presents later in the day at Mimi's

 

Gia and daddy

Aunt Lisa and G

My nephew Brandon

Some family pics :)

Hope everyone had a wonderful holiday. I feel so blessed to to have my amazing husband and daughter, I am truly so lucky. The one person missing this holiday was my mom. I miss her so much. She is doing better but she still needs lots of prayers!

5 months!

wow wow wow, where does the time go? i feel like i am so busy everyday with gia and now with the holidays that time is just FLYING. kind of scares me. i just want to push pause!
gia can so so many things now it is awesome. she does this screech/squeal thing that is almost like her way of showing how happy she is to see you, I LOVE IT! then yesterday i felt her first tooth coming in, EEK! she's just so happy and fun to be around and SO inquisitve, she pays attention to everything and always wants to explore. She has also discovered Sadie, and it's hysterical. If only the dog would pay attention to Gia!!!
Here are her 5 month pics, she discovered there was a teddy bear sitting next to her and wouldn't put it down.

Her faces just crack me up. I love her more than anything and am so thankful everyday that I get to spend my life taking care of this little munchkin!!!
One more month till we start solid foods, that should be fun :)
I promise to start blogging more, need to keep all 5 people who read this updated lol!