Welcome Rachael Grace!

Frank and my new niece (and the girls' new cousin) was born today December 29th at 1:34pm at Keller Army Hospital at West Point, NY! To see pictures of the beautiful new baby girl, visit my sister's blog at http://themackclan.blogspot.com/

Congratulations to the Macks!

Christmas Festivities

Zoe's ballet class put on the cutest little ballet show! The outfits they wore were priceless!

Zoe's class

Here is a video of Zoe's Christmas Ballet Show. Zoe is easy to spot - she's the blonde with the two pony-tails (you start to see her at about 10 seconds in).

In other Christmas news, we took a trip to Durango, CO to ride the Polar Express. We rode true to Polar Express fashion, pj's and all. We did this last year, but this year was extra special because we had watched the movie and read the book, and Zoe especially knew exactly what was going on. It was so funny, on the train ride to the North Pole (about a 1/2 hour each way), Zoe asked if we were going to cross the Polar Ice Cap. I laughed so much. I think she must of seen that in the movie.

Me and Jenna * Hot, hot, hot - hot chocolate!

On the train

Santa! aka Mr. C

Thanksgiving Celebration

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving with my folks, aka grammy and pop pop. They drove down from Kansas and visited for about 3 days. It was a fun time - we ate lots of turkey, got to a Zoe ballet class, and even picked out a Christmas tree! It was a special treat to have grammie and pop pop help put the lights and ornaments up! Mom and I did several Target runs - at all hours - but we had tons of fun and got lots of wonderful Christmas shopping done. It was a great holiday!

Making Thanksgiving dinner * Enchilada night!

Getting ready for Christmas


At the tree farm


Zoe showing showing off her ballet * Lunch at our favorite place Taco Cabanas!


Presents for the grandkids * Big goodnight hugs!