hello babies!!!!

good news.... the babies have FINALLY arrived!!!! these two cuties belong to marks' sister, missy and her husband, justin. they were born yesterday in the early evening hours. everyone is doing very well right now. missy is laying low and getting better and justin is the changing champ already!

grace rebecca weighed in at 6.4
gage ryan weighed in at 5.13.

and in other baby news... my sister bri is expecting her first bundle of joy. she is about 4 months along and doing well. she had to break down this past weeked for some pants. she does not know what she is having just yet but she is due in june. i'll have some preggie pics soon!

first storm of the year...

so we got it....the first snow storm of the year. it was a pretty good one too! i think we ended up with like 9 inches. we got to play in the snow with max today. he was funny, had a heck of a time standing up though. he did some snow ball throwing as you can see below...



then he tried his hand at some snow angel making... we had to tell him to flip over a couple of times and then he was all set...
and of course there were snowmen. it was the perfect snow-nice a sticky!!!
in the event i do not get to put up another post. merry xmas everyone. travel safely and enjoy the day!!! good health and love to you all!!!!!!!

pre-xmas craze...

so the xmas season is here... i am about xmas'ed out already. we started getting ready for the upcoming events by visiting santa at the mall (which is where max thinks he lives) and dropped a small fortune on a couple of pictures. they did come out pretty cute though! after santa he got to go on the train ride, which i think he had more fun doing!!then last weekend we bought our tree and max helped decorate, as you can see he did a bang-up job with the ornaments. he kept insisting the ornaments should be hung off of the bulbs. needless to say we had to do a little bit of re-arranging but we had a good time watching him.

then last week, work had a christmas party and santa called in sick, so i very graciously volunteered mark. (i'm still paying for that) actually he was a really good sport about it. max knew it was him from across the room and now i think he might believe that mark IS santa. he quite seriously asked us if daddy was santa claus. the little girl is avery, she is the daughter of one of the guys i work with, chris. she and max had quite a good time racing all night..

then we had our first snow fall.... a very small amount but enough for max to throw on his new boots and run around in.



to cap off the last week, we did some shopping. max didn't make it into the store, so......

an artist's debut!!!

max has just completed his first self portrait and here it is....

a taste of fall

ok so fall has arrived and for those of you not in the area here is a peak at some of the colors that surround us new englanders. enjoy!!! the weather is getting cooler but we have been lucky, not too cold just yet. we have not had any of the white stuff yet either, which is more than ok with me. mark has been scoping out the snow blowers though.... max is great these days, a handful as usual, but lots of fun. he has discovered the art of tooting and annoucing it to the world... he'll give you a heads up with," it smells like somethig died in here." it funny until he annouces it in the middle of the grocery store. he has also discovered santa and toy commericals, he had decided that he should have every toy he sees on tv and has also decided he is going to stay up and wait for santa. it is going to be a LOOOOONG couple of months.

we spent some time a couple of weeks ago picking up leaves and max learned all about leaf jumping that day. needless to say he came in with leaves in his underpants and in his ears that day.

this is max and i on my birthday. mark had the camera and just kept taking pics, here are a couple of 'em. they are little blurry, but i thought he got the mood of the moment. thanks, babe