Lakeview Crew

More pics of Holiday goodness to come.

This year’s photo with Santa went much better than expected.  We didn’t quite achieve the gold standard: eyes right at the camera, with a perfect shining smile, but we’ll shoot for that next year.  We were just glad to get both the kids to the Mall in one piece without any major complications.  We timed it just right too.  Hunter was out cold and we had talked Santa up to Adalyn the whole ride there.  She was so excited.  After we were done with pictures she wanted to stay and stand by the fence and wave to him until we were all checked out and ready to leave.  So cute.  Oh and just for comparison, be sure to click here to see last year’s…attempt.  🙂

Houston, Christmas Card pictures are complete!  This year, it was our mission to capture one good picture of Adalyn holding her brother Hunter “like a big girl.”  This was the first time we let Adalyn attempt to hold him and I’m so proud to say that she did great.  We told her how to sit and where to put her hands and she followed every instruction to a tee.  After a good 30-45 minutes I can satisfyingly say, mission accomplished.  It was ADORABLE.  Adalyn was so proud of herself.  We can’t wait to see the finished product all printed up and ready for mailing.  We’ll post the chosen picture here after we’ve mailed them out.  Oh and I’ve had a couple of people ask who we use for printing out our cards.  We’ve used Mpix for a few years now and they’ve never let us down.  We especially love their return address stickers that wrap around the card sealing them up.  Saves the tongue from those nasty paper-cuts.  Doh!

Taking an Angry Birds break after saving-the-world this Saturday morning.

Hunter is going to love this one when he’s older.  🙂  Look at those cheeks!

There are only a couple windows of opportunity I can snag a few pictures of Hunter while he’s awake during the day.  Otherwise he’s eating, sleeping, or getting changed.  Ah, the life of a newborn…

Not exactly a smile…but at least a little more animated than the previous bunch of images.  🙂

Look who’s discovered a love for pen and paper.

Adalyn is loving her role as big sister.  Whenever Hunter is around she is always by his side.  She’ll hold his little hand, tickle his tiny feet, and give him the sweetest kisses on his head.  Any time Hunter cries out she’ll run to wherever he is and say “What wong baby bwother?”  Too cute.

Heart…melting…. ♥