Nater's First Christmas

Merry Christmas!

This Christmas was really nice. We woke up and Jen & I took the babies to Grandma Vonna's! Grandma Veda, Aunt Dorothy, Mel, Trent, Stefo, and Gregg & his family were there to open gifts and have coffee :). The kids got a lot of nice gifts and Melissa & I got duck sweaters, crock pots and a really awesome cook book :).

After Vonna's we came back home and had breakfast (at lunch time) with my family and Ryan & Andi. Then it took Ryan, Andi, the twins, Jenny & I about 45 minutes to put together the kitchen set that Addie got from her uncle Josh..lol. After that fiasco we opened our gifts and spent the day eating and hanging out.

The only thing that could have made Christmas better is if Loren was here! I really miss him and I can't wait to be a normal family again!

Other then that, this Christmas was a success! Christmas is just going to get more and more fun as the kids get older :)

Merry Christmas

Christmas 2009. Let me first tell you that we were so excited to hear that Alicia had little Lane on Christmas day at 1am-ish!! I can't wait to see pictures of him! I bet he's really cute!

Anyways, our Christmas was a lot of fun. We all slept in until around 10-11, had home made donuts (made by my dad & they are super yummy!), then opened up gifts. We all got a lot of cool things but I got what I've wanted to get foreverrr! It's just a little book called "I Am America & So Can You" by Stephen Colbert!!! =) I love it! After gifts we, well, started making drinks..lol. We had dinner around 4 then spent the rest of the evening playing games. It was a lot of fun!

Here are a couple random pictures.. Notice that nobody is wearing anything that is Christmas-y.. We're all wearing bright colors ;)

Grandpa & Grand baby

Me & my love!
Me & my sis

America's next top model? ;)

Silly girls

Our ornament :)

Mommy & Addie

That's the face she does now whenever we say "smile" :)

2009

I can't believe its already December! I feel like I just got used to writing '09 on our checks & soon I'll have to get used to writing '10 (weird). But this year has been a pretty good one. We got to spend a lot of time in Oregon.. Lived there for the first 4 months, visited in June, October, November, & soon December. And so much has changed since this time last year. Addison is a toddler, Rachel had Austin, Kristy had Peyton, V is pregnant, Robby & Jackie got married, Alicia will have Lane any day now, Loren & I celebrated our 2 year wedding anniversary, and Addison will have her first birthday :)

Its crazy how a couple years ago, us & all of our friends were just dating each other & now we all have families & are married. We've all grown up so much. Even though we still act like teenagers when we have our parties ;) I can't wait to get back up to Oregon & see everyone.

We should be leaving for Oregon on Friday, get there Saturday morning & go to a Christmas party for the kids at Vonna's that evening. I'll probably be drinking a lot of coffee that day.. Monday is Taco Night with the Hullas, Wednesday is Addison's 1st birthday & Friday is Christmas! This trip is going to be a lot of fun!

Hopefully I'll be feeling better by this weekend.. I have a really bad head cold/sinuses. It sucks. The only good thing is that Addison doesn't seem to be sick or getting sick. So that's good. And Loren says he's too cool to get sick.. yeah whatever. ;)

Addison has a bunch of teeth now. She has her 4 front teeth, 3 on the bottom and 2 molars on the bottom & 2 on the top. I'm not sure but I thought that babies get their teeth in order (front to back) But Addison got her "vampire" teeth first on top and now she has molars coming in before the ones in front of them do. I don't know, she's a strange girl ;). She's also a really speedy crawler! And she can stand and walk while holding onto something. I'm sure she will be walking within a couple weeks. She says "hi" or "hey", "mom", "dad-dad", random baby talk, and she can almost say "Sadie". The first year of her life has been a real joy. She's such a good baby and she has the funniest personality.

Ok, enough with the random stuff, here are some pictures from last weekend. :)

Addison, me & that crazy Christmas hat!

Addie & Nana Jana
Addison wants whats on the tree ;)

This is a picture from the Thanksgiving at my uncle's house. Addie is apparently emo ;)

Two Thanksgivings

This year we had 2 thanksgivings! The first one was with Loren's dad & Janice & they're friends, and the second was on Saturday with all of my uncles, cousins & grandparents in L.A.! They were both really nice but I really enjoyed the one with my family. We haven't seen them in about 2 years :( And this was the first time most of them have seen Addie. It was a blast! I don't have pictures yet because my aunt took all the pictures and will send them to everyone by email. But I do have pictures of Addison at our first Thanksgiving..

Her hair was all messy because she just woke up from a 4 hour nap..lol.

Addie's First Halloween

Addie had a good Halloween! First we went to a "Family Day" BBQ on base for Loren's company. It was pretty fun. There was a bull riding machine and Addie was laughing every time anyone would ride it. Lol! But once that was over, we headed over to Bill & Jana's for the weekend.

Addie's hair looks funny in this one..Lol.

Later that night we went Trick-Or-Treating with all the Pickards, their friends and their friends' kids. It was pretty fun but as you can see, Addison got bored ;)

But once we got back to the house, she woke back up and played with the kitty :)

Happy 4th Of July

I hope everyone had a great 4th!! Its my favorite holiday :)

(more pictures on my myspace)

Addie sure enjoyed her first 4th of July!