Christmas in review....................

We are having a great Christmas visit from my mom and brother! They arrived on Christmas day. I will start with Christmas Eve. Here is Analese kissing my 35 week belly on my 34th birthday!



We went to Best Buy to buy a last minute gift. Here is Analese being a girl drummer (pics were taken with my iphone):





Then we celebrated my birthday with friends at Macaroni grill!






Then we went back to our friends' house to open gifts and take photos of them by their tree. Analese horned in on their family photo HA HA!




Here is Christmas day opening gifts at our house:





Here is one of Analese's favorite gifts: a Wal-Mart shopping cart! And that is her Baby Alive doll in the baby seat!




And here is Analese playing with her Meemee today:

Looking back..............

This is Analese's 3rd Christmas (outside of my womb, that is)!

Here is her first. She was 7 months old!



Here is her second. She was 19 months old!



And her 3rd! She is 31 months old!

It was like pulling teeth.................

but I FINALLY got some Christmas poses with Analese smiling! And not the cheesy facial expression that she likes to call a smile lately!

So here are the family poses that I kept:







Here are some that I took of her and Daddy. Unfortunately they are blurry. I did not realize as I was snapping the pics that the flash battery was low and the camera was not flashing:





And for the REALLY difficult shots, the cute ones where she is smiling (and not like Chandler on Friends getting his engagement photos)!







And just a couple more close-up smiles:

All the Christmas decorating this 8 month preggo is gonna do!