Just When I've Had It!

On days when the "terrible threes" (they are worse than the twos) are ready to do me in it is nice to look back on pictures like this!

Breakfast with Santa

The day after Jacob's birthday we went to "Breakfast with Santa" put on by our homeowners association. Due to our mild weather in sunny San Diego Santa arrived by fire truck. (Today was 86 degrees by the way!) No snow for Santa's sleigh and the reindeer would have gotten overheated. Anyhow, we had our pictures taken, nibbled on some snacks and juice, and then Jacob (okay, mostly Michael) made a snowman bucket. We visited with some friends and Olivia, being only 11 days old, caused quite a stir. Santa was a little nervous holding her!

Here comes Santa, Jacob was in awe!

He finally arrived....

... and Jacob got to tell him EVERYTHING he wanted.

Then the whole family had a picture taken.

Michael and Jacob working on their craft.

Jacob's Third Birthday

Jacob celebrated his third birthday this month. It was a week long event. With the birth of Olivia it made things kind of crazy but we wanted Jacob to still have his special day. We had a fire truck party in our backyard with all of his friends on December 10th. Later that evening the family came over for a party and then on his actual birthday (12/15) Jacob got to go to the movies with Dad.

Jacob had fire truck cupcakes at his friend party!

Uncle Bill surprised us by driving Grandma down. She got to enjoy the party and hold Livie.

Here are Jacob's friends. Not everybody wanted their picture taken!

(Left to right: Ethan, Jacob, Jack, Bobby, Connor, Kai, and Thomas)

Jacob's fire truck cake at the family party.

Yum!

Our New Arrival

Well November was a crazy month and as you could see we didn't update the blog very well! Brandie hosted a beautiful baby shower for me at The Boat House restaurant. I meant to post the pictures but then we got busy decorating Olivia's room. I was going to post pictures of that but then I was busy prepping for maternity leave at school. I thought about updating the blog but then was busy getting ready for Thanksgiving. As you can figure out I was going to post pictures of that fun day but then I went into labor! As I said November was crazy!

On November 30th we welcomed Olivia Grace into our family, 4 weeks early! She was 6 pounds 5 ounces and just fine. I guess she didn't want to share a December birthday with her dad or big brother. After a very quick delivery she was more than happy to meet her family.

Here's Olivia just a few minutes old.

This is the midwife who delivered Olivia.

Jacob loves his new little sister!

There is a lot of pink around our house these days.

Sleepy Olivia!