Ummm Yeah... so let's just get through Christmas

So it's been over a month.  It's not that there hasn't been alot going on, it's more that there's been SO much going on that I can't keep up!  Pictures will help catch me up.

Here were a couple more of the pictures that didn't make the cut for the 2012 Christmas card.  

Pretty much most of December the whole family was dealing with colds and runny noses, but we did our fair share of preparation for the Christmas holiday.  I made cut-out cookies for the first time in about 10 years.  They turned out pretty well and Maeve officially developed her sweet tooth.  My favorite part of the holidays is seeing all of the family and friends that we don't see year round.  My parents were in town for a whole week ahead of Christmas so it's always nice to get those extra visits.  Maeve is consistent with both sets of grandparents at least.  Both Grandma & Nana go out of their way to get on the floor to play/read with Maeve, while she will quickly ignore them to bring a new toy or book to Grandpa/Papa who are in the other room or up on the couch across the room.  She's a stinker who seems to love the men in her life.  I get the same treatment since she'll say "Dada" about 100 times a day vs maybe 5 "Mama's".

So Christmas 2012 was wonderful.  Maeve and I were still battling colds, but we pushed through to enjoy the holiday.  Here is our pretty girl in her Christmas dress. I found this on sale at Macys and couldn't resist.  She might only wear it once, but she looked angelic.  We started out Christmas Eve with the Daley's.  She was alittle unsure of the whole party and presents, but slowly came around.

 Evan and Maeve practicing coloring outside of the lines.

 Alittle unsure... maybe pink isn't Dad's best color.

Maeve continues to get loved/spoiled on by her family.  She got lots of great gifts, but her favorite for the moment is the tricycle from Nana and Papa.  This thing is tricked out and she loves to get pushed around the house with it.  Here was the first test run!

 We left Nana/Papa's house around 7ish to head to Pohlman's.  Maeve did fall asleep on the way, which wasn't surprising since it was close to bedtime, but she rebounded and pushed on through for another hour so I could hang out with some of the Griffin family.  She was OBSESSED with my cousin Kim's dog and pretty much just chased Ernie around the house... not sure Ernie enjoyed the attention, but Maeve sure did.

So Santa arrived with plenty more gifts... maybe a few too many because we were still unwrapping on Dec 26th.  Maeve just wasn't really into opening presents.  She got a kitchen from Heather with lots of accessories but it definitely took her about 1-2 days to comprehend everything.  Once the toys were moved in the back room/toy room, she started to dig in more and play with everything.

 Love these two!

 Mid-morning pajama change before we headed to Mark & Jennifer for Wallace presents!

So wonderful to have these two around for Christmas.  They were just taking in all of the madness... much of it coming from Aidan, who was just so jazzed up we were all cracking up at him.

Such a happy boy on Christmas morning.  I got him an ornament for Christmas and he was so appreciative and wanted to hang it on the tree right away.  He is such a sweetheart!