A few photos from Amelia’s first week :o)















































Amelia in her 2 Hospital hats :o)







































Our little girl Amelia Teresa joined our family on January 13, 2012. We are so excited!!!! :o) Life couldn’t be better :o)
One of the first photos with Papa :o)

















Anya meeting her baby sister for the first time (still at the Hospital)


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Well, since I got everything else done on my to-do list, I figured I should take some more photos before the little one comes :o) Here are a few of Anya playing with her monkey :o)

I just LOVE how Anya’s room turned out. It’s still a bit of a “work in progress” as the bed is missing and a few other things, but I love how playful and airy it is, with a few personal touches on the walls :o)
I especially like how her hidden-worlds cabinet turned out :o)





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Just a “few” from our Christmas Eve dinner :o) Thanks for hosting, auntie Rachel and uncle David :o)
So glad I was able to post these before the new peanut arrives :o))

Checking out the tree with grandma





Giving Carl the boomsa :o))
Hanging out with sweet cousin Braden
So cute!
And playing a game with cousin Evan :o)

The group :o)
Cheers and thanks for hosting! :o)

YUM!
Haha! Love this one :o))
Somebody got very excited about Evan’s gift :o))

VERY excited!

So did Tim :o))




:o))





Anya received a gift that was EVEN taller than she was!! :o))







Anya cuddling the baby!!! :o))) My sweet, little girl! <3
Somebody is getting sleepy…
Awww :o)


Since we didn’t have a tree this year, we sneaked in front of grandma’s & grandpa’s tree to get some photos :o)) Merry Christmas everybody! :o)


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December has been a rather cold month so far. We only had 3 snow storms so far, but the snow has been sticking around and it’s just been fairly cold all the time. I took the first couple of photos right after the first December snow storm (not the first snow, as we had a huge snow storm mid October). Isn’t she just a big cutie? :o)














Tim was kind enough to take a few photos of us :o)








We picked up this ADORABLE lion hat at the shopping mall. Anya had sooo much fun with it :o)) Love that silly girl and her beautiful smile! :o)





And one we took with Santa (since Anya wasn’t so keen on having her photo taken just with him) :o))
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Beginning November I had the last wedding of the year and I was sooo happy that Tim and Anya joined me on my trip ESPECIALLY because it was just SUCH a perfect, New England fall weekend! Here are just a few … the rest is from a couple of our Holiday shoots (mama was trying to get a photo for the Holiday cards, haha)




Can you tell my wedding season is just about over??? So happy to finally have time to take more photos of my little girl :o)
I have to warn you, the first couple photos didn’t really turn out the way I wanted, but I can’t resist posting that beautiful smile :o)








This was my original favorite for the Christmas card … but had to change my decision …















A little out of focus but nevertheless cute, no? :o)









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Now that October rolled in, mommy’s busy season is finally over and we took some time off and headed to Jamaica with uncle Andrew for a bit over a week. Anya had SO much fun at the pool (in fact, whenever she woke up in the morning her first words were either “pool” or “blanket”), haha! She LOVED it! The hotel was beautiful and we loved the fact that it was all inclusive and we didn’t have to worry about getting food for her. The guys took some diving lessons and went diving almost every day. It was SO nice to have some time off and enjoy the rest of the summer a bit.






The pool area at our hotel, the Iberostar Rosehall Beach:
and the pretty & super clean beach right out back:
Anya’s FAVORITE thing was “flying to the moon” :o)) She just loved being thrown up in the are while in the water :o)


Who would say no to a couple free, (in Anya’s & my case – virgin) drinks? :o)






Check out this prettty water! The temperature was awesome also, we could hang out in the water for hours!
See the little crab? :o)





















In the afternoon clouds usually covered the sky, which was perfect as we didn’t have to worry about getting sun burned and could enjoy the beach and pool without any bad feelings :o)




A few photos from our trip to the inland and a cute little spot called Richmond Hill Inn which just had the most beautiful view … and … uhm … pool! WOW!






Uncle Andrew :o)
A photo Andrew took of us :o)













What a fun, fun trip it was!
And here are a few of my favorites from when we got back again. LOVE this little girl :o))






10/09 if our anniversary, and luckily my schedule was open enough that we could go out for a little walk around the corn maze :o)


Boo! Happy Halloween :o)
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Well, August was busy …. so was September! :o( But we did have a little photo shoot with sweet Moriah again who grabbed a few family photos of us :o)




We also celebrated uncle David’s birthday :o)





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