Merry Christmas everyone!!!

This Christmas was one of the most special that I've had in a long time....

Dad, Cathy, Melaine and Patty all went to Christmas Eve Mass with us! Then, it was snowing so badly they all spent the night! That was so special to us! That is something that NEVER happens! It ended up snowing 3 inches at our house! The next morning Matt made his famous Strata breakfast - we opened gifts and stockings. Then we (my little family) headed over to The Brendel's place to continue the awesome day! We played so many games! Had the BEST dinner EVER, drank good wine, laughed and laughed and laughed! I am so blessed in my life to have such wonderful people to celebrate the holiday's with! Thank you to each of you for being so important and special to me. :)

Here some pics over Christmas (more to come when I download the pics from the OTHER camera)

Daddy reading "Twas the Night Before Christmas"

sshhhh it's "Papa" so THRILLED that he didn't sleep well on my couch :)

Lucas waking up to see what his Nana and Pop got him for Christmas! My pretty little lady playing the snow

Don't slip little buddy!

standing on her snow hill

Throwing snowballs at me!

This is what life is about: Taking time to catch some snowflakes on your tongue!

What a fun/quick weekend!

Joanne, Seth and Lauren flew in town for a quick Christmas weekend... We had an absolute BLAST! All the adults went out Saturday night and the family came over to our house for a wonderful gift exchange. :) It was so good to see them! We had not seen Seth since LAST Christmas. Here are a few pics of our crazy fun weekend.

Seth and me

my sisters

Melaine, Seth and me

The 3 cousins... Lauren and Hannah were about to go with Mammy to the Nutcracker ballet.

busy busy busy!!!

OK - I'm sorry for the non-blogging... we've been CRAZY busy! My little sewing business is keeping me busy making wonderful Christmas goodies for people, Christmas parties, Symphony dates, family in town, and MORE Christmas parties! whew! I'm ready to exhale :)!

Hannah will be doing her first band concert this week. I am so excited and PROUD of her! She is first chair with the clarinets! What a huge accomplishment! So, this year she really appreciated the symphony. :)
Here are a few pics of some of our events:

Hannah in front of the HUGE Christmas tree at the symphony

She's getting SO tall!

Kerry and me - at our annual "adult" Brendel Christmas dinner

Gigi and Tim

my honey!

Tim and Kerry

Nana and Pops :)

Family

We had our family pictures done for 2009 in a near by park. Here are a few of them.

I'm so happy to be back on my blog! I've missed posting pics and talking about my wonderful little family!