New Year's Eve & Christmas with the Grubers

As always, we spent New Year's Eve with our friends Paul, Lisa, & Lauren Wade. The night started out with some Mario Kart Racing.

Crawling through tunnels.

Check out these two. Don't they look innocent.

Let me feed you Lauren.

Ummm, not so innocent looking anymore are they?

What a bunch of dorks!

We celebrated Christmas with my cousins the Grubers/Chandlers the week after Christmas. Here are the boys with their cousin Casidy.

Andrea, DR, Me, my Chris, Meredith, and her Chris.

My mom!

Nick tried to get a lift from Goldi.

Uncle Dan is always tormenting Nick. He was not loving the chocolate smeared on his face.

Casidy's favorite thing about the entire day was Goldi. She wanted to take her back to Cary with her.

Uncle Dan also torments Harris, but Big Dan saved him.

Speaking of Harris... his new thing is pigtails. He is very specific about what he wants, and he insists on having bows too - like Cara.

Can you believe Cara Bear is 11 months old!!! Me neither!

She's still as sweet as can be, but we're starting to see some one-year-old traits popping up. First, she's starting pitching tantrums and squealing when she doesn't get her way. Second, she's becoming very attached to me and her blanket. She is pointing to what she wants and can follow some directions. Only a few more weeks till she'll be ONE!!!

We went to a birthday party on Saturday where Cara saw her favorite "boy" friend Chatham (getting a ride from his Daddy Devin).

Harris has had Strep, but he's feeling better.

Someone was full of herself that day.

She did get her first sucker and loved it.

Guess who's practicing for her birthday party?

I thought this was neat. Here's a picture of Cara at 2 days old coming home from the hospital in her car carrier.

Here she is today at 11 months 1 week old in her carrier. We had to put her in it to ride in Chris's truck. I think it's time for a big girl carseat in Daddy's car.