December 2016: Everyday

Hattie and I made some star ornaments!

Caught a smile on camera!!!

Group selfie!

Holding her brother...and keeping his sister at a safe distance!

Sttttrrrrretch!  So little!

I love when Hattie 'holds' Lena.

Their favorite past time!

Hattie's smile

Hattie likes me to take pictures of her hair so she can see what it looks like:

Hattie begged Kurt to take her ice skating.  So like the wonderful father he is, he took her!  And it did not go well.  Hattie burst through the door upon arriving home and said "Mom!  I did NOT like ice skating."  But recently she's been telling me she'd like to try again.  We'll see what happens!

We participated in the nativity with the Roth family (our family away from family...except for Megan and Joe Roth we really are family).  Roman was a wonderful baby Jesus.

Sweet Lena!

Hattie was an angel!

 Sledding in Iona!

This is the day I decided to get my hair cut.

I LOVE this little shoes!

He's just too cute!

At the very end of December family came in to town for Roman's blessing.  Here he is meeting Oma for the first time!!!

Winstead boys!

Smiling at his Mama!

December 2016: Highlights

I was determined to get family photos soon after Roman was born.  For Christmas cards, but also because we never got them with Henry.  I was waiting until fall when we'd get photos for Christmas cards.  I wish we hadn't waited, so I didn't this time around.  Before he was even 1 month old we got our family photos!

I decided to design our cards myself.  The first two I created myself, the other two are free online templates:

I decided to go with the last one!

Roman turned 1 month old on December 6th!  I love the peace sign in the second picture.  He started smiling and could lift his head up a bit by this month-iversary.

We went up to Iona for Christmas!

The kids in their Christmas PJs before heading up to Iona:

Henry's decorations...we couldn't get them into the frozen ground so they spun around in the snow and wouldn't stay put.

Roman met Great-Grandpa for the first time! They're 96 years apart in age.  Can you imagine holding your great-grandchildren?!  Love my Grandpa!

We tried to get a family picture at Henry's grave, but it didn't work out too well!  Why is it always so cold in Iona in the winter?!

A car got stuck in the snow, and the men went to rescue it!

Roman and Moppy!

Kurt had fun with the Emergency Christmas Kit!

Love this boy SO much!  I'm so glad we were able to celebrate his first Christmas with him in our arms.  He has helped to heal our hearts- what a wonderful gift! It was a much merrier Christmas than last year.  We look forward to many more with Roman in the future!

Sometimes Hattie loves the camera, and other time she does NOT want her picture taken.  This was one of the latter times.  But I got one shot of her in her new Elsa dress!  She LOVES it (still)!

November 2016

I have fallen far behind!  It's nearly Easter and I haven't posted about Thanksgiving yet!  I'm going to try something new, two posts for each month: highlights and everyday.  Starting with December :)

Since Roman was born so close to Thanksgiving I assumed correctly that we wouldn't be up for much and we planned on staying home.  A day or two before Kurt and I decided to actually try to cook a meal.  We were pleasantly surprised at how well it turned out.

Roman wore a 6 month Thanksgiving outfit.  It was a bit big!

She loves to hold her brother!  She's not always the most careful, but this worked pretty well.

Miscellaneous shots from November:

First snow of winter!  There were many more to come...

Giving Roman a high 5:

This hat!!!