Holiday Recap

I love my aunties

This is my 2nd cousin Ava, but she is a month older than me...hmmm I must eat too much

This was my outfit for my baptism.

The Joseph/Carroll Family

I didn't even scream when I was baptised.

Who said I can't eat whatever I want. These are my other cousins, Kaylee, Kamryn, and McKenna (I am eating her finger)

A meeting with Daddy's favorite Captain.

We had a wonderful first Christmas with Bryce. We spent Christmas Eve here in MS and flew out on Christmas morning to Pitt. Bryce did a great job with all of the traveling, which we were very thankful for. We get to Pitt in time for Christmas dinner with the family. The first thing most people would want to do is freshen up a little....well that would mean we have our luggage....and North West not only can't find it they have no idea where it might have gone. GREAT! Long story short they claim to find it and it will be delivered around 11:00pm on Christmas night...yeah right. Not to mention we are almost out of diapers and our carry on was full of breakable Christmas gifts nothing useful for us :) We get up early to drive to State College (3hr drive) the next day to see the rest of Brian's family...still no luggage. So we wash our clothes early in the am and put them back on again for day two. Bryce was cold that night, wouldn't keep a blanket on & Mommy put is swaddler in the luggage. So he ended up sleeping with us :)

Made several phone calls to Northwest and they were so overwhelmed the system would hang up on us all day and when we looked our luggage up on line..they still couldn't find it. :)

We still had a wonderful time and were said to say good bye to everyone. We got back to Pitt after midnight and still no luggage. So Saturday morning we finally go shopping. Bryce was being baptised at mass that night and Mommy and Daddy needed some clothes. Not that shopping isn't fun but when you have to go and find everything from underwear to shoes and everything is so picked over bc of Christmas and you would rather be spending time with family it is frustrating. We return and our luggage had just arrived 5 min before we did. FIGURES!!!!

The baptism was great as was the rest of the week. Bryce's cousins all girls on this side of the family just couldn't get enough of him. It is really the first baby they remember being around and they were way more interested in my nursing him and they being able to do it when they get to be mommies and why can't it just come out like Chocolate Milk he would like that way better according to Kamryn. :)

Trip home cell phone rings 10 min after leaving the house....your flight has been changed to 20 min later. Not a big deal but our connection was close so Brian calls to check as we are driving. Agent tells us oh BTW you have been re booked for tomorrow at 8:00am...WHAT so after sitting in a parking lot for 30 min instead of driving and talking to an agent that didn't speak English very well...seriously I thought we moved back to the US :) Brian hung up and talked to someone else...no we still have you on the flight just 20 min later...well now we aren't going to be able to make it to the airport in time. GREAT, but we do. Some how it all worked out with some extra pain and suffering....some how the Delta agent who told us we were booked the next day and the Northwest agent never talked....my cell phone rang about 4 times around 4:00am. Brian told me to answer it bc it was New Years Eve and maybe someone really needed us.....YEAH it was the Delta automated system telling us that our 8:00am flight was delayed.....really :) Hope you could follow all the craziness :)

We are home and enjoying a New Year...I will stop rambling and post some pictures...bc I know that is all people want to see anyway.

Random Thoughts and Events

Love the hat, thanks Aunt Suzie!

So I haven't been the best at this....but I will try to be better in the new year! :) Honestly I tried to add pictures a few times and then for some reason it didn't accept them or I did to many at once....so I was just irritated that I spent the time all for nothing...twice! Plus we had over 1000 pictures on our card so it would take me forever to find the one's I wanted. But Yeah for Brian because he downloaded all of them and we said we would never let that happen again. We will see if that works out or not.


We hope that you all have a wonderful holiday season and a blessed New Year! We are sending out cards that may be post marked by Christmas Eve :) But at least they are on the way.....

I spent the month of November visiting my family and it was wonderful. Mom and I did finally break Bryce of the screaming in the car seat....I guess there is something to be said for going out to lunch everyday. The car ride home with Brian was cake compared to the drive there. All his cousins had a great time with baby Bryce, it was much louder than he was use to and it took some time for Bryce not to jump when all the kids were together. They all took turns holding him, playing with all the baby toys, and singing lots of songs.

We are leaving for Pittsburgh for the Christmas holiday and pray for a smooth first flight.

Bryce is 4 months old, a drooling machine, all his fingers must taste great, and overall a pretty happy little boy unless it is time to eat NOW and or missed more than one nap at home. I love playing with him and watching his eyes light up at everything. He talks a lot too. UMMMM gets so excited in the bath that when he kicks both of his legs down his little butt goes over the seat and he is laying flat on his back in his bathtub with huge blue eyes like what just happened, but let me do it again and again.

Flying Baby is always fun!

The Boys at Thanksgiving!




The Girls at Thanksgiving

Our Little Elf wearing one of many hats made by his Great Aunt Suzie!

My first picture with Santa!

I still like to watch football with my daddy!

A month of Fun!

So I really had good intentions of keeping this up to date. Well it has been more than a month and I finally have some time. Our house is coming together and we are at least at a place where I feel like I can finally leave things be for awhile. I am currently visiting family and yes an 11wk old that doesn't like his car seat really can scream almost the entire way home (7hrs)....no matter what tricks grandma pulled out of her hat! So here are a few pictures of what we have been up to.

Scarecrows and the little pumpkin off to a Halloween Party

Dude what is that stuff under your hat!

Oh so that is what hair looks and feels like...Kellen doesn't have any yet!

Fall Days

Love that Smile!

So really with parents like us....Bryce is going to have to learn to love the gym or exercise of some sort....so we thought we should start him early So maybe we stayed a little too long :)

Trip to the Pumpkin Patch

Well I tried to get cute pictures of Bryce at the Pumpkin patch, but he wasn't excited about the idea at all. So I may have to try again on another day. Although Desiree and I still had fun taken pictures of the kids.

Monday Night Football

So after our Steeler photos on Sunday, they happened to be playing on Monday night. So Bryce got to stay up past his bed time with Daddy and cheer on the Steelers. Here are some funny pictures.

Touch Down!

It makes me really MAD when they play bad!

A visit from Aunt Kelly & Aunt Monica

Kelly and Monica came down to meet Bryce and 2 days after our HHG arrived. Little did they know how much work they would be doing. We so appreciated all the help with sorting, folding clothes and most of all getting Bryce's room put together. If we ever get a mattress for his crib maybe we can start using it. :)

Steeler's Family Picture

Love Moving

Okay not really...but kind of....Love new places....hate leaving friends.....love new homes....hate unpacking... and I could go on as we all could. Our HHG arrived and all was in one piece and no major problems. But boy did we miss the hard working Japanese. Not that our movers didn't work hard unloading 8 crates, but you would have thought I was smoking crack when I asked them to start unpacking some of the boxes and it was 5:00pm. They did for awhile and then sent me two very nice ladies to finish the next day. All furniture has a home, now we just need to find a place for all of the stuff. We have a path way to the computer so I thought I should try and catch up on the blog. The house is pretty put together except the office and Guest bedroom. We need to start hanging things, but it is feeling much more like home...finally. Lets just say that setting up the house seems to take a little longer with a 7 week old.