Merry Christmas!

First art project

Graeme brought home his very first art project from school yesterday!


We'll be celebrating Christmas Eve at Uncle Ryan's house and Christmas Day at Grandma and Grandpa Tredinnick's house. We'll be sure to post pictures later.

Three months!

Our little man turned three months old on the 13th. His personality is really starting to come out. He's silly and sweet, loves his hands and recently discovered there are feet attached too! He smiles from the time he wakes up until right before it's time to go to bed at which point those smiles turn into a noise that some would liken to a pterodactyl. He continues to sleep good at night thanks to the fact that he isn't much of a napper during the day. He is an alert little guy who doesn't want to miss anything.

Graeme is also starting to hold his head up really well. It is obvious when he sits in his bumbo chair. These pictures were taken at two months and then at three, what a difference a few weeks make!






When I started back to work, Graeme started at Primrose School near our house. He is in the infant room with 6 other babies ranging from 14 weeks to 18 months. The teachers are so nice and it's obvious Graeme enjoys being with them.



To say thanks and happy holidays, we stole an idea from our friend Trinity, thanks Trin!, and put together these awesome cookie mix in a jar gifts for Graeme's teachers. They turned out really cute and were super easy to make. Click on the image to be taken to the recipe.



We're off to Madison in the morning, hopefully the additional 2-4" of snow we're getting tonight won't slow is down too much.

Gobble, Gobble

Grandma and Grandpa Woode along with Uncle Ryan and his family braved the icy roads to spend Thanksgiving with us. It was fun to have everyone all together. Kaylin kept us entertained to say the least. The things a two year old says! Next year will be interesting with 3 mobile kids. We spent the weekend relaxing, watching football and EATING. What else are you supposed to do? Click on the photo above to be taken to more photos from the weekend.

Better Wed than Red

Our friends Matt and Liz were married November 20 in our hometown of DeForest. Matt served as a Groomsman. We took the opportunity to get away for the weekend, see some old friends, show off our little baby and debut his Badger outfit. Grandma and Grandpa Tredinnick had a Bucky blanket that served as the perfect backdrop. Graeme's tuxedo met a poopy end (or Graeme's poopy end if you want to get technical) before we were able to take any family photos.

After Grandma and Grandpa picked up Graeme at the reception (thank you!), Matt and I danced the night away and had a great time. I think these pictures prove that...and then Grandpa picked us up from the reception...THANK YOU!

Weather or not...

So, you may or may not have heard that we've had some weather here. Apparently mother nature didn't get the message that winter doesn't start until tomorrow. At our house, 20 miles south of downtown Minneapolis, we have had close to 40 inches of snow to date. We are thankful that we were able to purchase a snow blower last year, it has cut down on time spent shoveling and nursing back injuries. In addition our neighbors have started a snow-blowing brigade and it basically consists of the men in our cul-de-sac moving from house to house helping each other get dug out. It's amazing how quickly you can clear a driveway with 4 snow-blowers! We can't wait until next year when Graeme is old enough to understand what snow is and play outside in it.

And we're back!

Hi, remember us? We started a blog a few months ago and then dropped off the face of the earth? Yeah, that's us. Good news—we're back and have all sorts of things to share. Hang on tight, we've got some serious make up blogging to do.

Colosseum Bar at Caesars

Let's go back in time to early November. Matt, Kendra, Paul and I spent a long weekend in Las Vegas to celebrate our birthdays. I figured it being my golden birthday (30 on the 30th, EEK!) it needed to be celebrated in style. We stayed at the Monte Carlo and spent a good portion of the weekend gambling, eating, drinking, watching sports and repeating. Highlights included free gambling money from the casino for our birthdays which we immediately lost, live music and all the head we could handle at Dick's Last Resort at Excalibur (a cleverly named beer special), dinner on the balcony at LAVO, a mysterious but delicious Asian restaurant at Caesar's and being able to sit poolside in November. Graeme stayed home with Grandma and Grandpa Woode and did great! It was from this point on that he decided to sleep through the night...perhaps my parents should tap into the sleepless baby market for some extra cash!