First Christmas

Christmas Morning.....Lilah slept until almost 8am!  We opened up our all of our gifts and Lilah kind got the idea of ripping open the packages.  We kept it simple this year with what we got her, but it was a lot of fun shopping for her.

Oooh a ring that rattles!

A new book,  "Yay Daddy is reading to me!"

Lotsa packages!

"No No, tell them I am napping"

"Fine, I will say HI and that is all"

Helping Daddy

Josh got helicopters!

Sitting in her rocking chair from GG

Christmas at Nana's...after Lilah's morning nap we headed to the Eastern Shore to celebrate Christmas with more family.  It was a great day with lots of memories, Lilah did great with all of the people and excitement.

"What are these two doing to me?"

Miller family picture

"Is this for me?"

Aunt Krista was excited about her Nerds!

There is a baby in there somewhere

CJ was excited about his White Elephant gift,
unfortunately nobody stole it from him

Uncle Dale got attacked with Silly String

Playing with Nana

First Christmas Eve

My side of the family exchanges gifts on Christmas Eve. Growing up dad and mom would take all of us out for dinner after Christmas Eve service, but as the nieces and nephews started coming along it wasn't practical to go out to dinner at 8 o'clock at night.  So we started having dinner at home before church....more kids came along - dad and mom decided that we should also exchange gifts on Christmas Eve so that my brother's families didn't have to go to a bunch of different houses on Christmas Day.  It has worked out really well.  The kids exchange gifts with each other (they pick names on Thanksgiving) and the adults do White Elephant.

Ready for everyone to show up...

That's alot of people in our living room

Having fun with Kelsey

Emma & Kaylin

Kelsey

Of course, we ad to watch Duck Dynasty

Alexander got Lilah's name and he got her a rocking horse

Isaiah was excited about his pajama pants

Kaylin loved her slippers

Blake

Riley going through his baseball cards her got

Alexander liked his shirt Ashlyn got him

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Allison

Alexander putting up with me taking his picture

Grandma got a wagon (yes she really wanted one)

David with his white elephant gift, one of Dad's pictures

Donna's white elephant gift, she isn't too sure

Hanging out with Jarrett

Playing with a shape bowl from Grandma

The girls playing the  "HaHa" game

It Snowed Too!!

Seven Months Old

People kept telling me before Lilah was born that she was going to grow up fast and time is going to fly by - Oh My it sure has!   She gets more fun everyday.

She now has two teeth
She rolled over for the first time
She is slowly becoming a good eater, we had rough start with solid foods.
She has the best laugh
She "talks" all the time and will occasionally say "Dada".
She recently started playing by herself without having to have someone in the room
She has a favorite blanket
She takes wonderful naps and goes to sleep so easily most nights
She has always been overwhelmed when we are at a party with lots of people, but just recently started doing a lot better...Thank goodness because there are big families on both sides

I don't think it will be long before she is up on all fours and we will have to babyproof the house. I love watching her grow and change everyday, there is just nothing like and we are so blessed by God that we have her as our little girl.

Visiting Santa and Christmas at GG's

Yesterday was a very busy, but fun day.  We met some friends at Bass Pro Shop who have a little boy 5 weeks younger than Lilah to go see Santa together.  We got there early so the line wasn't too bad and moved pretty quickly.

Waiting in line with Daddy

Santa's Workshop

A family pic, but Lilah was wearing down....

Lilah and Santa!

Lilah & Corbin

Lilah and Corbin had a great time play
with Corbin's shoe laces

Next we were off to GG's house to celebrate Christmas....she has the family over the week before, it stretches out the all the fun of Christmas.

Playing with Uncle Jay & CJ

GG wrapped up a piece of wood for Lilah, we weren't too sure what it was when we opened it...

What is this? 

Then GG pulled out a big gift bag with more wood pieces and she put it together..it was rocking chair that Uncle Charlie made!

Ariah helping Lilah open up her gift from Aunt Joyce

We were trying to get the girls to smile for the camera

CJ got screwdrivers from GG

CJ gave Josh his gift and Josh didn't realize it wasn't his turn yet (we open gifts youngest to oldest) and started to open up his too soon

So he put his gift back into the wrapping paper til it was his official turn....

All of us girls were given the same slippers! I was laying Lilah down for a nap when the other girls opened up theirs, so I didn't know what they had all gotten - after I opened up mine they all put their feet on the coffee table at the same time to show me that they had the same ones!