Lydia's Dance Recital

This last Wednesday Lydia has her 1st dance recital, she danced to the Nutcracker and just had a blast. Getting ready to go look at lights!

Hannah's 1st Birthday

_We celebrated Hannah's 1st birthday in style. We had a small gathering of her friends and had cupcakes. I made for the 1st time egg, dairy, soy free cupcakes and they turned out pretty good. She figured out how to open her presents pretty quickly and she had a blast.
The past year has really flown by. The first 5 months of her life were very hard and I never thought we would make it through, but we did. She did and we did and so did Lydia. I am very thankful to Dr. Thompson for taking me serious and testing her for allergies and getting us on the right track. I felt like I was one of those Mom's that no one took serious but I new my baby had something wrong and once it was fixed she was a whole new kid. I guess the one thing I learned the most this past year is ALWAYS follow your gut instinct mom's are always right. Hannah has turned into an amazing busy little baby girl. She just LOVES her big sister, stuffed animals and destroying anything. She is constantly moving or doing something, never sitting still. She is still crawling but I don't think walking is too far in the future. She is a very serious baby as well, smiles seldom but when she does it lights up the room. She has the cutest little laugh ever. We have been truly blessed with the birth of this little girl and have learned just how strong we are and how fortunate we are to have our family and friends who made this year so much easier. On that note we will be taking donations to replace our furniture and carpets as this little girl has dosed them with her stomach contents a few hundred times!! :)

Lydia's Christmas Program

Here is a quick video of Lydia's preschool program. Last year she just stood there, this year she participated and had a lot of fun.

Thanksgiving

This year we headed to Seattle to spend it with my brother Dan and his family. The drive was good, if you consider getting stuck on Snowqualime (sp) pass for 4 hours good, but the kids did great and we are Thankful for that. We had a good time at Dan's and a great feast. We attended the Gingerbread Village at the Sheraton D-town. The houses were AMAZING. We had a great time!
We are getting ready for Christmas and Hannah's 1st b-day.

Photos Galore-October

So the month of October was an exciting one for our family. Grandma and Grandpa Kamann came to visit, we did the annual pumpkin patch outing, Lydia had a preschool field trip to the patch, soccer games, painting/carving pumpkins and Halloween!

I'm Back

Well it has been a LONG time and I am sorry for that....I am going to post a few photos and hopefully this weekend I will be able to sit up here and type a few stories of what we have been up to.

First Day of 4 year old preschool

Lydia started school last Wedneday and she loves it. I think this child is going to always love school, her favorite thing to do it learn. She also started taking dance class at the school right after preschool. This is her 1st go around with any type of activity other than school and she LOVED it. Hope it all continues to go so well the rest of the year.