On growing up

Isabelle's achievement of the week - getting rid of her binkies at night. Woot!

Tyler and Sarah's wedding

Here are a couple of shots from Tyler and Sarah's wedding. It was a great day and we are so excited to welcome Sarah to the family (finally after 7.5 years I am not the 'last one in'!).

Christ-masses

We set of on Christmas Eve with the Pitts from Cincinnati to head out to Phoenix for Christmas / Tyler and Sarah's wedding.

Paul and Debbie met us at the airport.



Paul and Debbie catching up with Cakes.



Izzy "I can do it myself" carrying her bags.



Katelyn was baby Jesus in the Christmas Eve nativity and Izzy was a wise (wo)man. Since Christmas Izzy now refers to Jesus only as "Baby Jesus" - Talladega Nights anyone?



Christmas morning after Santa dropped of our Stockings.



Tyler and the kids.



Izzy had wanted a Belle doll from Santa for Christmas. If Gonja's report was that Izzy was good then we told Izzy that Santa would bring her one. Here's Izzy's response:

Merry Christmas from us ... and Gonja!

we hope you have a great Christmas season and a a happy New Year!



Gonja has kept Izzy in line this Christmas season (no such thing as being good for goodness sake I'm afraid). After Thanksgiving an elf started showing up in the house in various places. Izzy decided that it was a girl elf and gave her the name "Gonja". Every night Gonja would return back to Santa and report on the kids activities and come back the next day in a new vantage spot ready to report to Santa. Hopefully the reports were mostly good so that Izzy won't get a lump of coal from Santa. - it's been close though.

Turkey #5148

Tiffany completed her first 10K race on Thanksgiving Day. Every year (this was the 100th year) there is a 10K race in downtown Cincinnati. Tiffany walked the 6.2 miles with her friends Lisa and Marie.



Izzy and I went downtown to greet them at the finish line.



Izzy joined Tiffany for the dash to the finish line.



After the race we caught up with the Blakes who also did the race this year.



Here's the certificate I was able to download from the website! congratulations Tiffany!