Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Our Baby Girl Turns ONE!!

I can't believe it's been a year since our sweet baby girl was born January 5, 2011! Alina brings such joy into our lives and we are so grateful she is part of our family!
I wanted to get a picture of Alina to text to all our family...


...so I tried putting her birthday crown on her, but she was having none of that!


But she put the crown on herself and that's how we got this fantastic picture of her. I giggle everytime I see this picture!


We had dinner at the same greek restaurant that we ate at on Nathan's birthday. It's called "Park Gyros" because it's right by the Golden Gate Park. It is so yummy!








Alina was so tired after our dinner out, that we had to wait until the next night to have cake and presents. Here she is excited about her cake.




Alina is trying to grow a whipping cream goatee!



Alina's favorite present was a book that Grandma Bice gave her that's called "Guess Who?" She kept coming back to the book and reading it in between opening her other presents.
Thanks Grandma!


Saturday, January 28, 2012

OOPS

This picture got left out accidentally from the Christmas post. This is Andy at the Marbles Children's Museum. I love him!

Thursday, January 19, 2012

Christmas in Raleigh


At Marbles Children's Museum in downtown Raleigh










"I really love Harry!" "Who's Harry?" "Oh, I mean Haley!"


Grandpa, Meredith, Melyn, and Kyler


Five Guys Burgers and Fries!

Grandma and Grandpa's awesome playground!

 
The favorite pasttime (and a cause for some contention) was sliding down the stairs on a mattress. What fun times!

Is Nathan holding twins? Alina and Emmet are a month apart in age and look almost exactly alike! There's also a joke about Nathan holding the babies while wearing that particular shirt, but I'll leave that to the readers to figure out!

The girls got to stick together!

Auntie Jo playing with the kids down at the creek. We can't visit Grandpa and Grandma without going to the creek!


Our Christmas Eve Family Walk!


It's a PPP! A Pillow Pet Party! Grandma and Grandpa got each of the grandkids a pillow pet (except our kids - they got theirs from G & G Bice last year) and a nice comfy fuzzy blanket (our kids got these too). We opened the pillow pets and blankets on Christmas Eve and then the kids got all snuggly to listen to the Christmas story.


"Mighty Michael"
Thanks Aunt Meredith for making Michael's mask and cape!

Jack got baptized on Christmas day! It was really neat to see him baptized.


Nick and Travis (Nick is the one in the horse head mask). Nathan got him the mask as a Christmas gift. It was a huge hit the whole trip!


We had a lot of fun bouncing at "Bounce U"

All the Gang for a Happy New Year Picture

Sunday, December 4, 2011

Palace of Fine Arts

Today we went to the Palace of Fine Arts and took some pictures of the kids. Nathan got some really great shots. Enjoy!