We had so much fun celebrating Sam's birthday last weekend!! He really turned 4 on December 22nd, but to make sure it wasn't lost in the Christmas hustle and bustle, they decided to celebrate it in January. He was quite excited and definitely loved his cupcakes!
Josh, Uncle Adam and Caroline
Grandmother and the Birthday Boy 
Like father... like daugther 
Caroline started sitting up! She really did this about a week and a half ago, but I'm just now getting around to posting the pictures. She is growing so quickly and now looks like a little girl sitting there and playing. She definitely prefers this new point of view over laying down any day!
Well, we are a little passed 6 months, but we just had our doctor's appointment yesterday. Everything is going well and Caroline is absolutely perfect! She is still eating solid foods and it seems like she can't get enough of them! It doesn't matter what it is, she loves it! The doctor says that her gums are starting to turn white and teeth might possibly be soon. But she also said that you really can't tell, so they might come in now and they might come in later. We have been so blessed with such a sweet little girl and I can't imagine her being any different! I was even surprised this morning with some time to myself today. She slept in until 9:15am! Here is where she ranks:
The next big thing that we did was get our little girl a high chair! We had been putting this off for so long and I wanted to find one that I really liked. We decided on the Graco Wood chair in espresso and I just love it. It matches our kitchen cabinets perfectly! She looks pretty little in it, but also so grown up!
As you can tell from the above pictures, Caroline's hair has gotten pretty long! I know that most people wait until their children are well over a year to cut it, but she has SO much that this really just could not wait. So, we made an appointment for last Saturday when Josh and I could both take her. We went to the Sweet and Sassy salon in Southlake and had such a good time! We arrived a little before they opened and once those doors were unlocked at 10am, probably 10 little girls ran in all ready to be pampered. She loved watching the older girls and really didn't even notice that her hair was being cut.
Caroline listening intently to how much hair was going to be taken off.
Posing with Daddy and showing off the finished product. Not much was taken off, but just enough to make it a little more even in the back.
What a whirlwind of a trip! This year we spent Christmas in Colorado and got ready for Caroline's 2nd plane ride! We left really early in the morning of the 23rd and she did so well! Of course there was too much going on around her to sleep, but she was quiet and quite the good girl. We arrived at the airport with Grami and Pop Pop waiting to take us home! The roads were really bad and we had to drive really slow, but it was beautiful to see all of the white snow. Missy, Paul and Emma all arrived earlier than us and were there waiting to greet us when we arrived home. That night, despite the bad weather, we went to Fort Collins and bottled our own wine. My parents bought some grapes several months ago and a local company prepared the wine for us. Josh requested the Chocolate Raspberry Port and no one objected! (Yep, he chose the chocolate... however no real chocolate was in it... he checked!) Marcia and Johnny joined us at the bottling place while Taylor and Maddy stayed and babysat Emma and Caroline. We all enjoyed the wine and dinner afterwards.
Everyone was so excited to see what Santa had brought, that we started Christmas pretty early. I think both girls were upat 6:30am so we decided to go ahead and open presents. Santa brought Caroline and Emma the cutest rocking horses that neighed, wagged their tails, and moved their noses. We took turns opening presents and Caroline could not believe all of the new clothes and toys! It took quite a lot of strategy by Josh to get all of those home!! We had to leave some, but they should be shipped soon!
After presents we all got cleaned up and the entire family came over. Grami had quite the dinner and managed to feed and seat 23 people! We had so much fun with the family and had several new members. Andy's fiance's family came and joined us along with Sarah's fiance. We're looking forward to all of the weddings coming up.We ended the trip with a night full of murder... a murder mystery dinner that is! My brother received a game a couple years ago and now that we reached 8 people in our family, we could finally play! We all dressed up as people from the '70's and got into our characters. Can you guess who did it...?Needless to say... there were LOTS of laughs!!
