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Our Christmas pics

Here are a few pics from our Christmas shoot, along with Sophie's 9 months pics. I love the one with Jerry and the girls. He always takes great pics with them.

Halloween

Bel is learning sign language, so she is signing "candy". Sophie fell asleep after 3 houses.

Additional info regarding cards

Holiday Mail for Heroes Planning Tips
The 2010 Holiday Mail for Heroes P.O. Box is now open – and we need your help to make this year’s program the best yet. As you start your card-making activities, don’t forget to follow these important tips!
Do...
Include your heartfelt sentiments and sign all cards
Entitle cards with generic terms such as “Dear Service Member, Family or Veteran”
Limit cards to 15 per person or 50 for school class or business group
Bundle groups of cards in single, large envelopes
Don’t...
Send letters, care packages or monetary gifts
Include personal information such as home or email addresses
Use glitter – excessive amounts can aggravate health issues of wounded recipients
Include inserts of any kind as they must be removed in the screening process

Holiday Mail for Heroes

Holiday Mail for Heroes Program Overview
It’s that time of year again! The American Red Cross and Pitney Bowes have teamed up for the fourth annual Holiday Mail for Heroes program.
From now until December 10th you are invited to send holiday cards to our American service members, their families, and veterans all over the world. Anyone can send a card and you can send as many as you would like!Please send all cards to

Holiday Mail for Heroes
PO Box 5456
Capitol Heights, MD20791-5456

The deadline for this year is December 10th. Unfortunately, if your cards are not postmarked by December 10th they cannot be delivered. After Pitney Bowes collects and screens the mail received in the PO Box, Red Cross workers deliver holiday greetings to service men and women in their communities. Check out how our uniformed men and women and their families expressed their gratitude for the Holiday Mail program when it delivered cards to Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

long time

I realize this might be the longest I went between posting something. It has been crazy. Jerry was gone for 9 weeks traveling to audition rotations. He was home for 3 days and left again for his last set of boards, in Philly. He is on his way back home, but it is short lived. He will leave again on Sunday to go to his last traveling rotation in California. Jerry has 2 interviews coming up. One is in Dayton and the other is Columbus Ohio. These are his top 2 picks. So, we are hoping he matches to one of them. As of right now it looks favorable. We match in 3 months, on Valentine's Day, how sweet!!! It's been a crazy journey. We are excited for the next step. I'll get posting some new stuff of the kids soon too.

Grocery Smarts

Anybody who knows me, knows that I love "Grocery Smarts". I talk about it all the time and how much money I didn't spend. Well, today I had another huge day of savings, so I thought I would compile a list of everything I got. My total out of pocket was $8.47(which should have been $6.47, for coupons I forgot to use. But that's another story). This is what I got for that.
2 tubes of colgate total toothpaste
2 bottles of dial body wash
2 all in one purex laundry soap/softener
1 bottle method laundry soap
3 arrid deodorants
1 bottle dawn dish soap
1 bottle dawn foam dish soap
2 bottles dial foam hand soap
1 container utterbalm lotion
1 lime away toilet bowl cleaner
1 box store brand qt bags
1 bottle act mouth wash

I believe that's it. Pretty good huh!!!

Sophie's 6 month photo shoot

Skinny Minnie

Everybody knows Bel is skinny, but this is funny and sad all in one. She put on Sophie's 3-6 mo pants. They actually fit her well as Capri's. I had to take a pic while she had them on to show off the size.

1st meal

Ohhhh she says that was good. She loved her first bowl of rice cereal. She's growing up so fast!

Jerry passed his step 2 boards! He is so close to being "Dr. Huebsch". I'm very proud of him and excited at the thought of us moving on soon. Now he just has to pass the clinical boards in November. Which should be a lot easier than the written portions.

Sophie

She likes to smile and laugh. She's such a sweet baby!

Just laying around on the play mat.

Date night

We had a well deserved night out. We celebrated Jerry's birthday and taking his step 2 boards. Which by the way, he took on his birthday. We went to the strip and had dinner. We had intended to go for a few drinks too, but since we are old and tired, we only made it through dinner. At any rate, we still enjoyed dinner without the kids.

Kids

Bel loves to hold Sophie. She gets so mad if I say no(usually she's asking right after she eats). So, to save some puking from getting her belly pressed, she has to wait. As one could imagine a 3 yr old doesn't have patience to do so.

Every time I log onto my blog I just laugh at those pics of Bel trying to jump out of my arms. It just cracks me up. She looks so wild.

Baptism part 2

She really wasn't this bad, but did have a few moments. Good times.

Baptism

Our sweet baby Sophie was Baptized today. What a special day for her.

Washing her hands

Yesterday Bel ran into the bathroom and turned on the water. I was very busy in the kitchen, so I yelled for her to shut the water off. A few minutes later with the water still running, I firmly told her to shut the water off and to get out of the bathroom, and that we don't play in the bathroom. She came out of the bathroom and said to me " should wash hands, should wash poop hands". Yes, that's right, she had poop on her hands. She put her hands in her diaper and got a surprise. So, of coarse I couldn't be mad, because she was smart enough to go the the bathroom and try and wash her hands. I think some of my OCD is rubbing off on her.

My ham

Every time I try and take Sophie's picture Bel gets excited and says "cheese", and starts to pose. If I don't take her picture at rapid speed then she tries and take the camera away.

Jerry's mini me

Every person who looks at Sophie says, "wow she looks like Jerry". I don't see it, but if that many people think so then it must be true.

Holy Belly!

Wow! I just found this pic when looking through some cards I uploaded. This is the morning we went to have Sophie. My belly is soooo big. It makes me look like I have no chest.

Trip home

Sophie was just hanging with her future cousin. Next May Liz will marry into our family. We welcome her with open arms. Both Isabel and Sophie had fun and loved hanging with Liz.

Scuba Steve

This just makes me think of "scuba steve" from "Big Daddy". Her eyes looked funny as it was, because she was having some allergy issues when we were home.

My trip home

I went home for 5 days. It was a total surprise. Nobody had a clue I was coming except for one sister who helped pull it off. It was the first time in over 2 yrs we were all together. It was nice to see all my family. Isabel enjoyed playing with all her cousins, and Sophie loved all the attention she got.

New Dress

We have already had some warm days, and our air kicked on. So, Sophie got to wear her new watermelon dress.

Yummy

Someone loves Cheetos. Thank goodness they are baked, and only given for a treat.

Sophie's photo shoot

Isabel's 3rd Birthday shoot

Sneak peak

Here is a glance at some of Sophie's newborn photo's.

New bed

This is Isabel's new bed with her new owl bedding. It's so cute and goes perfect with the vinyl Melinda and I put up in her room.

Papa's Girls

Our Little Shamrock!

Welcome Sophie Grace!

Here she is. She arrived at 8:06 A.M on March 12th, she weighed 6 lbs 3 oz and was 17 1/2 inches long.

Darn cows!

Even on the swings she won't let go of them.

Money Maker

This needs no words! However, you will need to turn the volume up.

Isabel and Sophie's room

Melinda and I decorated the girls room tonight with vinyl. It is so cute, I can't stop staring at it. I had to get new sheets for Isabel, so I could use her crib sheets for Sophie. We were inspired by the bedding and it grew from there. We are going to print them again next year when we move, maybe even bigger and better. I'll have to take a picture of the bedding so you can see the inspiration.