Merry Christmas!

 Merry Christmas from our crazy family to yours!

Santa must not have checked his list twice this year because we made off with quite the Christmas haul - despite that one incident last January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November and even just a few days ago.  Maybe Santa's gotten soft in his old age?
Big changes are on the horizon for us (and our blog, too!)  Mama goes back to work in a week and a half.  She is officially signing off until then.  She's going to enjoy every last second of this screaming, yelling, hitting, fighting, pooping, puking and late night feedings while she can.
So with that - MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE AND HAPPY NEW YEAR!
We love you all and wish you the best in 2012.  If our next year is as good as this past one then it's going to be a GREAT YEAR!
Love,
The M----- Gang
Joe, Kristen, Lilly, Anna and Jack

Zingers

 This morning I told Mommy not to be a hater.  Seriously.  What?  WHERE did I learn that?  And how funny was it?  It went like this:
"Lilly, eat your lunch if you want to go see a movie with Babi."
"Mommy, don't be a HATER!  I'm not hungry!"
Oooooh, boy.  That was a good one!

Want to hear one even better?  I was just sitting on the couch next to Mama tearing up some envelopes and whacking my baby brother in his head in the process and Mommy said,
"Anna be careful of your baby brother!"
"Just be PATIENT Mommy I'm doing something!"
Okay now I know where she got that one!
Love,
Lilly, Anna and Jack

Christmas Pageant!

 Did I spell "pageant" right?  Who cares?  Do you care?  I don't care!  I think you know what I mean.  Mommy has to admit, she hasn't taken very many pictures at all lately - bad Mommy!  Poor Jack!  We had about 1,000 pictures of Lilly by the time she was 7 weeks old, about 250 of Anna about the same time, and about 14 of Jack.  Sorry, Buddy.  We'll make up for it at Christmas time!  Promise!

 Lilly had her first Christmas pageant!  It was so fun!  Thank goodness we got seats!  It was packed!!

 This is my baby brother Jack, he doesn't do much so I poke him just a little bit...

 There's our adorable little reindeer!!  We were pretty far away so...

 Daddy walked up to the stage for a better picture. 

 Here's Lilly with the best preschool teacher EVA!  We LOVE HER!!

 We tried to get some cute pics of all 3 kids when we got home.  One is notably absent.  Here are a few of the best we could do:

Are you ready for Christmas?!!?  We are!  Only 2 giftcards left to buy and a gift for Uncle Dan!  Hey, Uncle Dan!  HOLLA!
Love,
Lilly, Anna and Jack

Gingerbread Houses With Grammy!

 Mommy just downloaded 270 pictures and still hasn't even blogged half of the ones we're behind on!  Eeeeeeeeek!!!!  Time to catch up!  A few WEEKS AGO (!) Grammy and Grampa came so Mommy and Daddy could get all decked out for the annual Snow Ball that they love so much!  Grammy always comes equipped with lots of fun projects for us all to do together and this time it was gingerbread houses!  As you can see above, I was particularly excited while Anna got particularly frustrated (see below)...

 "What do you mean I can't EAT THE CANDY!?!"

 Grammy and I worked diligently on our house and it is still proudly on display (though partially picked over thanks to Anna who finds pieces "conveniently" fall off on a daily basis - that she then must eat) - in all, a beautiful first effort and wonderfully fun project!

 Here is my finished house!  I dressed up just for the picture! 

And both of our beautiful houses!  THANK YOU Grammy and Grampa for coming to stay with us and do fun things with us so Mommy and Daddy could go to this:

We love you!
Okay, stay tuned - we've had LOTS of visitors the past few weeks and we have LOTS of pictures to put up and things to say!  Not to mention we are getting all ready for Christmas and we've started fun new traditions we can't wait to share with you!
Love,
Lilly, Anna and Jack

Jack's Stats - A Week and a Half Late

I'm getting BIG!!  I'm almost 8 lbs!!  Ha ha, little peanut.  I'm 7 lbs 11 oz and I grew half an inch!  I'm sleeping about 3 - 3 1/2 hours a night and I want to be in Mommy's arms 24/7 - like right now - and Mommy is one handing this which is not easy - or fast!
Here I am about a month ago!

And here I am again - watching football with my Uncle Matt!

Go Browns!
Love,
Jack (Lilly & Anna)

Gratuitous Go Blue Post

WE LOVE BRADY HOKE!!!
Gooooooo BLUE!!!!!
Love,
ALL OF US!!!