Holidays 2008 so far...

I never blogged about Thanksgiving so I thought I would do that and then also post pictures of our holidays so far. This has been a really emotional holiday season for us. Carley is growing up before our eyes. She will be three this month and it just does not seem possible. In so many ways she is a big girl. She is really into the magic of the holidays.
On the other note, we are approaching the due date of the baby we lost in May. I never dreamed that I would not only not be pregnant by the baby's due date, but to have had another miscarriage earlier this fall just really makes this a hard holiday season. When I look at the pictures over the past month, it is amazing to see how blessed we are with Carley and what a miracle she is.

We had an AWESOME Thanksgiving here in Lubbock with my parents.

Carley making biscuits with my dad and getting tickled by him.

Reading with her best buddy Nana.

Cody napping. :)

Carley "helping" with the Christmas decorations.

One of her many Christmas shirts

Some family time at the Science Spectrum Christmas Party. It was so fun. Carley got to make snow, decorate gingerbread, talk to Santa, and look at a bunch of animals. We had a great time.

Wednesday we went to Santaland to see Santa. Carley will never sit on his lap or talk to him and gets really scared, but this night she did so good! She just hopped up in his lap and asked for a Princess Bike and then told him Merry Christmas. We were so proud of her. She was so cute. She talked to Mrs. Clause too. The funny part was she asked Santa for a "pink princess bike". It is my understanding that Santa might already have a purple one so Santa and I are a little worried about this small detail. Hopefully she won't remember this at all (even though she keeps talking about the color)