River of Lights

Ahh, I just love the Christmas season.  I love the lights and decorations in the stores.  On Friday we went to the river of lights at Botanical Gardens.  It really got me in the Christmas spirit.  So much so I had to buy a tree this weekend.  It was our first tree to buy in America.  The last three Christmas' were in North Africa and we had a little tree that we borrowed.  

We went with our friends Gabe and Gelaine.  Here are their kids Oliver and Lucy posing with Nellie.  You can see Nellie is very impressed with the lights.  






Family pic.  Nellie was so into it.  
Her winter hat.  She has matching gloves too!  


Geez, I sure love this kid!  
She was on her way out to go exercise in her baby Gap jogging suit.   

Daddy and Nellie reading about grace.  We are teaching her sound theology nice and young.  

Look how big she is getting!  I had her weighed on Friday and she was 9.0 pounds in the 25%.  So a little on the lighter side but pretty long at 22.25 inches in the 50%.  

All dressed up for church. 

Good news, she finally likes her swing!  I tried her in the baby papasan and the swing so many times and she hated it.  But this week she finally sat in it.  In fact she falls asleep in it now! I know you can't tell by the expression on her face but she is having a ball in that thing!  :)

I got my first flu shot today.  I kept hearing that if you have new baby you should get one but everyone stopped giving them.  I finally found out where I could go and went to the public health office.  I sure hope I don't get sick because this Saturday Cody and I celebrate our 5 year anniversary!  We are going to the Nutcracker ballet.  We have never been so I hope it's good.  See you next week!  Oh yeah, Cody and I started dating exactly 8 years ago today!