Steph Wedding Pictures

A Daddy's Love

Here is Alex getting her hair done by Daddy. I just thought this looked so sweet.

Adoption video has been shut down

Well I got a lovely letter from youtube yesterday letting me know that they have shut down my adoption video due to copywrite law violations for my use of Colour my world by Chicago in it. Now don't get me wrong, I'm not saying I was right by using it, but if I own the CD should I have the right to use the song in a family video as long as I am not profiting from the music? It's not like you could search youtube for the song and play it whenever you wanted, it was just part of a story. Oh well, if you got to see it I hope you enjoyed it, I guess it will now be a private family thing. Greedy people do things like this, I wish I could meet who ever did this, I would like them to give me a really good explanation for pulling my video, what was it the last song on the video? So you would have to listen to 2 or 3 (10 minutes)songs to get to it............................

A Drum Roll Please...............

There is a story to this bed and it starts way back in September. We were at H*me D*pot looking at paint for the kitchen. Alex was a little whiny so I gave her a brochure of a kids bedroom that had a Cinderella bed on it. (to amuse her-- so I thought). She immediately started showing me this bed and telling me she wanted it and for the next week she had that brochure and would tell me and show me at every opportunity how much she wanted this bed. Finally-- I had to sneakily throw that brochure away. I thought to myself-- out of site out of mind. Did I think wrong-- the mind of a 3 year old shows no mercy. That girl has asked for a Cinderella bed everyday since then and we kept pacifying her by saying " Santa will bring it to you" . Well -- TADA--- here it is the INFAMOUS CINDERELLA BED. She loves it. She climbed right up on it and had no problems sleeping on it the first night.
I must say that "Santa" had quite a time finding the bedding. "Santa" couldn't really find anything she liked until she came across this and "Santa" could still live without the princesses in the corner on it but "Santa" loves the toile sheets. We still need to put the curtains up but here is a picture so you get the general idea.
MORAL OF THE STORY: BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU HAND A TODDLER TO AMUSE THEM. IT MAY COME BACK TO HAUNT YOU.

Miscellaneous pictures

Mommy and Daddy playing with the tripod.

Here is my future "baby doctor" playing Operation very intently. Here is a funny story. Todd put Alex down for a nap and about a half hour later he heard her up there talking so he peeks in her room and she has all her stuffed animals on her bed with all of her "doctor stuff" and she is making Mr. Bear feel better. Is that not the cutest thing ever.

Cute stuff

Daddy and cute stuff.

Opening presents

Christmas Morning

So--- Alex gets out of bed on Christmas morning and immediately wants to get dressed and she specifically wants to wear jeans and a t-shirt. I didn't have the energy to argue with her over that even though I really wanted her to wear a dress. Oh well-- it is just clothes. Unfortunately, Christmas day was pretty much like Christmas eve. No smiles, no laughing in front of the camera. She's killin' me. Oh well another day. I don't know what I am going to do with her. But all in all we had a very nice Christmas. We have much to be thankful for.

Christmas Eve

So we always spend Christmas Eve with my family. It has been that way since the beginning of time. Alex had a great time playing with all of her cousins and Santa even came for a visit. Of course, she would not sit on Santa's lap but she did get pretty close to him and even talked to him. Right when Santa was getting ready to leave, you heard this loud little voice over the din of about 50 people. " Santa Santa, reindeer food my house" . She wanted him to know that she had reindeer food to sprinkle on the lawn for all those hungry reindeer. It was very cute.

This girl is obsessed with lip gloss and chap stick. Cherry chap stick more specifically. If you let her she will put it on at least every 5 minutes and then you see this pink halo emerging from around her lips and you can smell it from the next room. I don't even know how this happened. I put chapstick on in the car when I am going to go outside but not all the time. She just loves lip stuff.

Christmas Eve

My dad, Jim, with his 3 girls (Hannah, Kate, and Moi)

Todd with my sister Hannah. Those two are always in to something.

My dad with his girlfriend, Wendy

Christmas Eve

Here is Alex with her cousin Mariah. They were very cute together and had a great time playing. As usual, my daughter was a challenge to photograph. There were lots of smiles and laughing but none for the camera. Everytime I went to take a picture she would turn her back or frown. Oh well, better luck next year.

Alex and Mariah playing with her new "computer"