Christmas and New Year's Eve

What a busy time of year! Christmas week started off with our annual Christmas with the Andersens. They came over for dinner and presents on the 23rd and we had a great time, as always! Thanks so much for Lily's cool new outfits and our Penn State Gnome. Hopefully he will bring us some luck in the Rose Bowl today!

On Christmas Eve Lily couldn't wait to open her presents. She was staring at them all day! We met Grandpa Smith and GG for mass and then we went back to the Smith's for dinner and gifts. We had a wonderful time with all of the Smiths, Mastrobuonos, and Schaeffers. Thanks for all of the wonderful presents. Lily LOVES her new activity mat!

Lily was super excited for Santa to come because she did not sleep AT ALL on Christmas Eve. She was up every few hours seeing if it was time to open gifts. When it finally was time, we were very happy to wake up Christmas morning and come down to see what Santa brought. Lily even helped open the gifts. She would grab hold of the wrapping paper and pull back. Very cute! Bailey knew when it was her turn to open gifts. She dove into her stocking while Ryan was trying to pull her treats out. I guess he wasn't moving fast enough for her! We had a nice relaxing morning with a delicious Christmas breakfast before heading to West Chester.

This year we drove to West Chester Christmas afternnoon and stayed for a few days. Lily stayed occupied on her new activity mat while we opened presents. Thanks for all of the wonderful gifts and delicious Christmas dinner! One of the best presents for me was a ticket to the Eagles game that Sunday. Matt, Meghan, a friend of Matt's, and I all went to the game against the Cowboys. It was awesome!!! My first Eagles game at the Linc and it got us into the playoffs. Go Eagles!! Lily was talking nonstop all weekend. She has definitely found her voice. She also found her upper lip while we were there and has started sucking on it a lot. It's kind of strange but cute! Lily also got to meet some more family members. My mom's brother, Jeff, and his family all came for a visit. It was great to see everyone! As always it was wonderful to be home and very busy! We'll be heading back to West Chester in January and I'm already looking forward to it.

When we got back home we had a fantastic visit from Kaleen and Mike, our very good friends from college. It's been about a year and a half since we saw Kaleen and Mike, so we were sooo happy they were coming up. We went out to dinner and while we were Lily woke up and wasn't too happy that she wasn't at home but Aunt Kaleen did a great job calming her down. She's a natural! We hope you guys had a great New Year's Eve in Vegas and hopefully you'll see a win at the Rose Bowl. Mike, good luck with the move out to LA. We promise we'll come visit soon!

For New Year's Eve we went to the Pohlman's. We got to celebrate the new year and Amy's birthday! Amy and Chris made a delicious dinner and homemade birthday cake. Yum! We put Lily to bed there around 8 but she knew it was a party night and she woke herself up right before midnight to come see the ball drop. We got to ring in the new year with best friends and the whole family, even Bailey was there for it! Thanks Pohlmans for a fabulous night.