Merry Christmas!

We hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and were able to celebrate with family and friends. We hosted Christmas Eve with my family at our house. There were 18 people, plus Keira, so we had a full house. We had a great time and celebrated into the wee hours. Mark and I didn't get to bed until 1:30am!!! Keira kept to her schedule, of course, so she was up and ready to play at 6:45am. Zoikes! I was pretty tired, but managed to get some shut-eye on the way to and from Rochester. We were there to visit with Mark's parents today and had a good time!

Keira had a wonderful first Christmas and made out like a bandit. She is definitely not lacking at all and is lucky to have so many people who love her and want to spoil her. It's times like these that I miss my Mom tremendously and ache for her physical presence, but I really think she was with us and is with Keira every day. She was definitely with us on the drive home from Rochester. The roads were so slick! There were many cars in the ditch. My brother said there was a car that came down the hill, lost control and nearly ended up in the pond behind our house. What a sight that would've been! Fortunately, no issues for us. Thank goodness Mark is such a skilled driver.

Here are a couple of pictures from our Christmas. I'm back to work tomorrow so I should be getting to bed soon. I'll definitely be posting many more pictures later...

Keira's 7 Months Old Today

Keira's 7 months old today. She's had a rough couple of weeks leading up to today, but she's been a trooper and seems to be recovering from her bout with a bad stomach bug. She is quite the character and is ready to become mobile. She's still trying to figure out how to crawl, but who knows if and when she'll actually figure it out. In the meantime Mark and I are enjoying her lack of mobility. For now we know she stays where we put her. Her new trick is going from a sitting position to a standing position. She's only done it once on her own, but is definitely getting the hang of standing (with assistance). Check this photo out. Mark thought he'd give it a try and see if she could stand by herself and as always, she amazed us!

My sister, Mai, comes home from Thailand this Saturday and will be here through Jan 3. We're so excited for her to come home and I'm looking forward to Mai and Keira getting reacquainted with one another. It should be interesting.

Linh and Steve closed on their new home on Monday and finished moving in today. Congratulations! We can't wait to visit!

I've Been Tagged

I've been tagged by Meredith and the deal now is you, my blogger friends, need to post 7 interesting things about yourself on your blog. I'll do my best to make this worth the read and inspire you to play too.

1. I love watching horror movies, but hate being scared. Does that make any sense?

2. I have several obsessive/compulsive tendencies. Here's one example - I do a lot of things in 3's - make sure the door is locked, the garage door is down, etc. It doesn't matter if I'm late, I have to do it or I can't go.

3. I love reading and hearing about celebrity gossip and have subscriptions to People and US Weekly. I get upset when the pictures and gossip are too similar and the magazines aren't doing a good enough job of giving me differing info, stories and pictures.

4. I don't know how to swim. When I try to swim, I have to wear goggles or I refuse to dunk my head under the water.

5. I love learning, but don't like going to school.

6. My feet are so small I sometimes buy kids' shoes. Other times I get enraged when I can't find shoes that fit. It's like the shoe people discriminate against people with incredibly small feet. I've also recently found out that one foot is a size 4 and the other is a size 5. Seriously?!

7. I can pick things up with my toes.

Sarah C., Runa M., Chris B., Susan M...You're It!!