Smolek Happenings!!: December 2007

Thursday, December 27, 2007

A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

Well at last, here are some new pictures. : ) I'm sure I've got dozens more to upload, but time just gets away! I did upload a bunch to my myspace page. The link is listed on here if you want to look at it! Once again, we had a GREAT Christmas, and hope all of you did too!

Merry Christmas Baby!

Our sweet nephew Noah "NoNo" as Ryan likes to call him!

Colby just hangin out in the Cars chair

Sit N Spin!! Cool!

Ryan & Poppa Jack!

Just hangin out on Pa-Paw's lap!

oh i love to snuggle this baby

look! he's smiling for the camera! i must've done a great job on his clock! :)

big brother's gotta show little one what to do!

the STAR at our house is Lightning McQueen

Tuesday, December 25, 2007

MERRY CHRISTMAS

What a beautiful Christmas!! Ryan was just a blast this year, really figured out what this present thing meant!! He goes back & forth between all of them....good job everyone!! And Colby just looks at his & coos!! :) Happy boys, just love them so much. They get to spend the night at my parent's tonite, since Nate & I both have to work tomorrow and our sitter gets to be in Colorado for a family wedding! :) Hope she's havin a ball!! It was really good to get to see almost all of our family over the last few days. I took tons of pictures and will get them posted in a couple of days when I have a day at home. :) I tried to post some new ones last week, but was having uploading issues....so we'll just do a bunch this week!! Hope all of you had a great Christmas and remembered to thank God for our blessings and for His Son! MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

Tuesday, December 4, 2007

My Cousin...

I just wanted to pay a small tribute to my cousin, Shawn Noonan, who was killed in a car accident on Monday Dec 3, 2007. We will miss her very much, it just won't be the same without her. It's been a pretty tough couple of days. We're very grateful for our families & support systems. This is a picture of last year the day after Thanksgiving, when (L-R) Aunt Kathy, Cousins Chelsea, Shawn, LuAnn, and myself went shopping. We were outside Menards in Norfolk about 4:00 am in this picture....we had a ball. :) We love you Shawn.

Monday, December 3, 2007

Time for new pictures!! : ) I take so many, it's hard to choose which to show off!! Thanksgiving at our house was lots of fun--I made dinner for my boys, Mom, Dad, Nathan, Noah, Rachel, & Aleah. Mom & Rachel brought stuff too, it was delicious!! : ) It was really fun just hangin out,, doin nuthin & relaxing as a family. I really enjoyed it! The kids all played so nicely together. : ) And later in the evening we went over to my Grandma's house to hang out with the rest of the crew. Fun day!!
Now we're getting ready for Christmas, it will be sooo fun this year! It's been a ball shoppin for our babies, seems like everything we see is "Ryan would LOVE that"!! Talk about blowing a budget! : ) Oh well! We've found lots of fun stuff for Colby too, they make such neat things for these babies!!! And daddy likes to play with them too....hee hee hee!! We got our tree & stockings hung up, I just luv decorating for Christmas. Ryan loves all of my snowmen decorations, thinks its just great. : ) It's so fun watching him get excited over everything this year!!
The boys are doin great, growin like weeds & happy as clams. : ) Colby sleeps great at night...still a stinker during the day, but we'll take the full nights! : ) They're starting to interact, Colby will see Ryan & smile, and Ryan loves to talk to his "buddy" as he's been calling him. : ) How fun!
Hope everything's goin great for everyone else too!!