Snow!

We had our first major snow of the season on Thursday. Took Rich a crazy amount of time to get home from work (5 hours on the bus! no fun...) Schuyler and Rich made a cute snowman and Schuyler said that shoveling snow with Dad was "the best".

Costumes!

Schuyler just got a package in the mail from Miss Carrie containing a bunch of costumes from her school. She is overjoyed and promptly chose one to dance in last night. Thanks so much Carrie!!!

More Holiday Merriment

It wasn't just a weekend of babies -- we also attended the "dog performance" (as Schuyler likes to call it) at Sturgis Library, went to the St. Mary's Holly Fair, where Schuyler bought Pepper a Christmas ornament, attended the Hyannis Harbor Lighting and Boat Parade party at the Pine Island Yacht Club with GJ and Grandpa, and then off to Fazio's for pizza, where we had a close encounter with Santa (who Schuyler thinks is pretty scary). We also managed to see Steve and Ellen for dinner on Friday night, and attended The Nutcracker at BHS Sunday, followed by the HYC kids Christmas party. Plus visited the babies! This weekend promises to be equally busy, with Schuyler turning 3 years old on Saturday!!! Schuyler is also going to be in the Christmas pageant at Church, so we have dress rehearsal this weekend. She's going to be an angel and is very excited...

Holding up her new 'flasher' sneakers from GJ. Schuyler gets very upset when I call them flashers. She says, 'no, mom, they are light-up shoes...' She says they keep cars from 'squashing' her at night? :)

With one of the dancing dogs.
Closing down the HYC kids Christmas party. Schuyler loves to close down a party. She refused to go anywhere near Santa.

The club downstairs looked really beautiful this year, lots of white, sand dollars, starfish, and shells. Here she is checking out the 'white' themed tree.


Rich runs into Santa at the bar in Fazio's. He and Mrs. Claus were grabbing a bite to eat!

Schuyler clings to Rich as Santa comes by to say Merry Christmas. She's wearing a sweater Gee made for me when I was a little girl. Thanks, Eileen, for the photos!!

Welcome Avery and Charlie!!!

This weekend brought the arrival of two new babies -- Tara and Michael's Avery Margaret and Samantha and Aaron's baby boy Charlie!!! They were delivered within minutes of each other; imagine our surprise when we got the call from Michael and Tara, and then from Sam, to say the babies were here! Schuyler LOVED the babies...

A first look at baby Avery


Beautiful baby girl!

Here's baby Charlie!
Father and son as Schuyler looks on.

Christmas Season Kickoff

Christmas has officially landed at our house. We've started celebrating and decorating.

Schuyler wrestling with Rich on the floor as we get the Christmas tree in the stand. We chopped down the tree at the tree farm down the street. It was SO COLD but I think the tree we found was worth it!
Schuyler filling up Pepper's advent calendar with dog treats. This was also good counting practice, as she's working on numbers at school.
Busy with her 'work'.
We made this Advent wreath at St. Mary's on Sunday. Very Charlie Brown's Christmas! Not to mention a fire hazard.... :) I think we may need to make some adjustments...

The tree - all decorated and looking lovely.