Tis the Season

It's hard to believe that it will be Dec 1st soon and we have NO snow in MN!! Darren is hoping that we get some soon, but I am loving the late winter weather.

We spent Thanksgiving at Kevin and Ann Wittinger's house. It was a great day with good food, family and relaxation!

Minneapolis has a Holidazzle Parade every Christmas season that goes down Nicollet Rd. It's a parade where everyone wears lights and all of the floats are decorated with Christmas lights. We decided to brave the crowds and bring Nadia to her first Holidazzle parade. Great Great Aunt Kathy went along as well.

We all woke up Sunday morning to a light dusting of snow. We hopped in the car and drove to the tree farm and found the perfect Christmas tree. I have all bulb ornaments which might be a mistake...Nadia is obsessed with balls and she thinks that it is a tree filled with balls that she can play with!

We also had Nadia's One year and family pics taken on Saturday. If you'd like to look, go to http://www.studiohphotography.com/ and select On Line Proofing. You will see my name in the list. You will need to enter your email address to see the photos.

Birthday Girl!

I can't believe it's been a year already!! We celebrated Nadia's 1st Birthday last week with family and friends. Nadia loved being the center of attention and LOVED all of the toys that she got from everyone. She does NOT like missing out on anything and refused to go to bed so we let her stay up with everyone until 11 p.m.! She wasn't even crabby and just sat downstairs and played.

Nadia got a newborn cabbage patch doll that came with a bottle...needless to say, Nadia likes to feed herself instead of her baby! She also can say baby now. I was folding clothes the other night and heard Nadia say "baby, baby, baby." When I came out to the family room, she was trying to pull her doll out of the toy box!

Nadia has also FINALLY learned to crawl normally...she has the army crawl down, but is finally getting the hang of being up on her hands and knees.

Most of you have seen Nadia snort like a madwoman, but for those who haven't...I finally got something on camera. She loves to snort. We were in church on Sunday and she chose the most quiet point in the service to turn, look behind her and start snorting LOUDLY at the woman sitting behind us. Good timing!

Happy Halloween!

Nadia was Tinkerbell for Halloween and had fun watching kids come to our door for candy. She gets so excited to see other kids and will start screaming when she sees them. She got a package in the mail from Grandma Kuhn with her favorite treat from our ND vacation.

We had our good friends, Jon and Jennifer here last weekend from Michigan. Darren worked with Jon when he was in Michigan and has kept in touch through the years. We had a great time hanging out, walking around Minneapolis and eating! They brought Nadia the cutest pumpkin hat!

We are getting ready to celebrate Nadia's 1st birthday in 2 weeks...holy cow where does the time go??? She is such a fun baby and makes Darren and I laugh every day. She now has 6 teeth, is an army crawling machine, likes to stand up and says 'bye bye' and 'puppy.'