Christmas and New Years

Hello! The last two weeks have been the best! Addison had a wonderful first Christmas and New Year, and we've been so busy, I haven't had time to blog about it. But right now I should be busy doing laundry and cleaning, so what better time to sit down and blog?! :)

My last post was just before we left to go to my parents' house for a few days before Christmas. Right after I finished my post, we bundled Addison up for the trip (it was COLD that day!). Here is our little snow bunny...

Addison and I spent Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday at Mops and Pops' house and Kevin came in on Wednesday for Christmas Eve dinner. We had a big family dinner on Wednesday with all of the Lee clan (Mops' family). Mops got a new camera for Christmas, so she took all of the pictures of Christmas. If she would ever get around to sending them to me maybe I could post a few (get on it Mops!). After dinner on Wednesday, we took Addison to the Christmas Eve candlelight service at church. Then, it was time to get home (well, back to Mom and Dad's) and get in bed so Santa could come. Obviously, she had no concept of it being Christmas, but we had fun with it none-the-less.

Christmas morning we got up and opened presents. You know you are officially a grown-up when you are beside yourself as you unwrap a new (kick-butt) vacuum cleaner!! Mom was helping me clean up when she was out visiting not too long ago, and apparently realized how bad off my vacuum cleaner was... AWESOME!

So, after we opened presents and had a wonderful Christmas brunch, we were off to see the Stewart side of the family. We spent Thursday (Christmas day) night, Friday, and Saturday morning there. Aunt Shannon and Uncle Jamie were in town from Charleston, so the whole clan was there. We had a great Christmas dinner and opened presents. Addison got just a little bit spoiled this Christmas with all of the presents she got! Jerry and Sharon got Kevin and me a new Dell laptop since our old laptop could give out at any minute... we were completely surprised!

We had a relatively calm week between Christmas and New Year... I went back to the gym and reactivated my membership (I had cancelled it when I got so sick during my pregnancy), and have been getting up there *almost* every day. It's amazing how working out completely changes my mood and daily outlook. I feel like I get so much more done, and am generally much happier when I've gotten a good workout in.

New Year's Eve we just hung out at home with the little one. Growing up, we had a tradition of having steak and shrimp for dinner on New Year's Eve... I guess a kind of "last meal" of the year. So, I reprised the tradition for our new family. We had a big dinner of steak and shrimp, with sweet potatoes, garlic bread, and salad... and then chocolate-covered strawberries and champagne at midnight for dessert... what was I just saying about the gym?! We let Addison take a good long nap in the evening, so she could stay up a little later with us. She made it to see her first peach drop at midnight, we gave her Happy New Year kisses, and then tucked her in at 12:05 with fireworks shining out her window. Here is a self-taken picture of our little family at midnight...

Addison had her 2 month check up yesterday... the child is off the charts for size, weight, and head size! They said that she is doing great and seems very healthy. She also got her first big set of shots. After the first one went in, she just looked up at me like "what was THAT?!" and then started to cry about 5 seconds later! They got the last two shots in and she screamed for about 20 seconds and then she was fine... my little trooper.

Anyway... The Stewart family is off to a great 2009... I hope you are doing the same!!