It has been a long time since I saw my best friend, Julie, who lives in Ohio. Thankfully, she was out recently for Christmas with her family, so we stole her away for awhile :)
We spent a wonderful but too short time together enjoying eachothers company, but alas, it came time to say good-bye once again. Before we went our seperate ways, Julie (and Kevin, who wasn't there...missed you, Kevin!) gave Riley a set of drums that you play in the bath!
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He loves his drums, but I did have to take the sticks away because he would run with them and fall. Scary! :) Now they really are just an awesome bath toy...until he gets older anyway. (And note the shirt!)
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VISTING SANTA!!
We took Riley to see Santa for the frist time this year! As you can see, he was thrilled at meeting the big, jolly man.
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CHRISTMAS CELEBRATIONS
Our first Christmas celebration took place at the Shoup house (my in-laws, not our Shoup house :)) I forgot my camera in the morning when all the actual present opening took place, but remembered it in the afternoon when we went back over for Christmas dinner. We had a great time with family!
Riley's awesome Christmas outfit.
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Family picture
Great-Grandma Jones and Grandma Shoup play with Riley.
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Grandma feeding Riley
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Aunt Monica
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Aunt Melissa
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In between the morning at the Shoup house and the dinner at the Shoup house, we had our family Christmas at our Shoup house! :)
Our little boys
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Checking out the tree!
My practical presents (hey, it may not be "fun" but it's what I asked for!)
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Matt's (mainly Spain related) presents
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With all the toys and books Riley got from the grandparents, aunts, and uncle, he chose to play with the chap stick from Matt's stocking for most of the day :)
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He is so cute Emily...seriously adorable! Can you believe how fast they are growing up?? The time just flies!
ReplyDeleteUm, in response to your comment on our blog, I would say the thing that's helped me the most is working out A LOT (consistently and for a considerable amount of time each time) and just being really conscious of what I eat and how much I eat. Breastfeeding helped too but I think working out has made the biggest difference! I can give you more details if you want them...