Allison

My sweet friend Allison, from high school, came to visit Eden for the first time the week before Christmas. She brought her a beautiful handmade first Christmas ornament (that I wish I had taken a picture of before packing it away)!

Grandpa's Eyes

John's dad, Grandpa for Eden, stopped by to see us before he moved up to West Virginia. We got a picture of him with Eden. Don't you think she has his eyes?

Christmas with our boys

Here are a couple shots of us with our Ranch Boys. These were taken the week before they went home for Christmas Break. We were celebrating one of our boys' graduations!

Serious

Funny

Also, here is a shot of everyone in their PJ pants that they got for Christmas (even Duke)!

Symphony

I am a bit behind on the blogging for December and through the holidays, so I am going to try and get caught up.

The first week of December, we went to see the Atlanta Symphony play the Christmas portion of Messiah. We had a wonderful time! Here are a few pictures. (This was a kid free night. Nana stayed with Eden. )

Family Pictures

The week after Thanksgiving we took some family pictures with my friend, Shannon. She did a wonderful job! Eden is 14 weeks old here.

Catching up - Thanksgiving Week

Thanksgiving week is always filled with a lot of family and fun! Most of John's extended family comes to stay in the Flowery Branch area every year and we have a fun filled week planned.

Wednesday we had a soup dinner at out home, for which I made nothing! All of the food was made and brought by other family and it was wonderful. I forgot to take pictures while everyone was here.

Thursday was the Thanksgiving feast at the church. So yummy! Here are a few pictures from that:

Cousin Matt holding tired little Eden.
Sweet Lucy, holding Eden. Lucy was so sweet to spend a lot of time holding our little one!
Great-Aunt Ann, holding Eden.

5 of the 6 wonderful McNutt sisters. John's mom, Joan/Nana is the one in the purple sweater in the middle.

John, Andrew, Melissa (& baby girl), Jacob, Eden, Me and John.
Quick family picture. Eden was tired and ready for her nap!

We spent Friday with my family. We had a chili dinner at our home and we made s'mores over the fire for dessert and decorated the Christmas tree. Eden received her first set of Christmas PJ's, which was always a tradition for me and my sister when we were growing up. I will have to get a picture of her in them to post.

Saturday morning we had our 3rd annual girls brunch at my home. I love having women in my house. It helps balance all the testosterone I live with when the boys are here!

We had a great week! We missed all of you that couldn't be here this year and we are already looking forward to next year!

Week Twelve - Eden Singing(video)

Eden has been so much more verbal in the past 2-3 days and we just love hearing her sweet little voice! It's so fun to talk to her or sing to her and have her "talk" and "sing" with us! John was singing to her here and she started singing along. We have tried to capture her doing this on video before today, but she usually sees the camera and becomes distracted and stops. Today I caught her without her knowing, but you will see she notices the camera near the end of the video!

(This is my first attempt at loading a video on the blog. If this works well I am planning to add more in the future!)