"Life without love is a shadow of what life may be."



Tuesday, December 22, 2009

{From our Family to Yours...}

Merry Christmas Feliz Navidad Buon Natale Season's Greetings Joyeux Noel Frohe Weihnachen Cestit Bozic God Jul Maligayang Pasko Happy Holidays

Any way you say it, we wish you a very Merry Christmas! May the spirit of the seaon fill your hearts, your homes, and your families. We are so grateful for your friendship, your love, your support, and most of all, the wonderful memories we have with each of you!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Sunday, December 20, 2009

{The Light Parade}

We bundled up (way up, is was soooo cold! Frozen booger cold!) to enjoy a little small town fun -- the Rigby Christmas light parade! It was so cold we left the kids in the car with the heater running full blast, they were so cute peeking out the back hatch!



This was one of those days I love, love, love living by family and being able to get our party on all together! The Partysons were in full attendance ready to rock...

...while Nana, Papa, Angelina and Aiden were the real instigators of this particular activity! Love the tuke dad (he's been wearing that thing ever since I can remember)!


What a fun way to get in the Christmas mood...

The parade wasn't very long, but had some great floats. Somehow I missed the giant Broulim's grocery cart, which was definitely a fav... but I'm loving the giant grin on this one!


They even gave out candy and FREE bambino gift cards! (Did I mention how much I love small town livin'?!? ...and FREE stuff?!?) Louis was so excited he wouldn't put his treat baggie down, and it was so cute watching him hold onto it so desperately with his little mittened hands.


Then off to Nana's house to warm up with some steaming hot cocoa -- she adds the love with a scoop of ice cream to cool it down just enough. Yummmm... why haven't I ever thought of that before? It's brilliant! The perfect food!
Merry Christmas! (People just don't say that enough anymore, so I think I may say it again...) MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Sunday, December 6, 2009

{Don't We Look Fab-oo?}

Finally! New family pictures! It's a Christmas miracle! I've been wanting a new family picture forever! Didn't get them in time for the Christmas card, but at least they'll be hanging on my wall next week! Yippee!

Saturday, December 5, 2009

{Sweet Caroline}

It's Caroline's sixth birthday! She's growing up so fast! My favorite thing is to do on my kiddie's b-days is to take a look back...

My little blue-eyed beauty at 7 months (when we got our fist digital camera!)
She was always such a mommy's girl when she was tiny.

Sweetest little thing at almost two... (she won cutest piggy tails at the baby contest that day!)

Still always smiling at three...


...and four...


Then she was five...



...and today she turned six. We love her so much! Six years of her sweet giggles, happy smiles, hilarious games, and super imagination. I don't know what our family would do without her in it. We love you Caroline! Happy Birthday!

Now it's time to party! More on that coming soon...