Seven Months

Christmas Day 2009

Here are some pictures of Christmas Day. We hosted it this year at our house & that worked out very well with the girls taking some long & needed naps. Julia loves her new school bus (pictured below...from Aunt Carrie) & all her new books & movies! Phoebe enjoyed her 1st Christmas as much as a 6 month old can. I thought Julia would be way more excited then she was, but, I think it was all a little overwhelming. We are still recovering from all the excitement!

Merry Christmas to all you Blog Readers! We love you!

Bloomington Christmas!

On Christmas Eve we celebrated at Grandma & Grandpa Bohbrink's in Bloomington. It was a very fun day! Julia loves all her new toys.

Kimball Christmas!

We had a ton of fun with Papa Ricky & Grandma Jean this X-mas. Everyone must have been really good this year, because, Santa was very generous! Kennedy & Julia got some adorable matching jammies & had fun watching Pinocchio & staying up until 10 o'clock!

Gingerbread House 2009

We had a lot of fun building our Gingerbread House last night. Julia was very excited to help this year & Phoebe enjoyed watching. Thank you to Aunt Dean for this fun xmas tradition! Love you♥

Macy's & Santa 2009

Here are some pictures from our annual Santa visit. We didn't even try to have Julia sit on Santa's lap & it worked out okay. She did cry, but, I think in the end she was happy to have seen him! We had a wonderful lunch in the Walnut Room after. I love family traditions!

6 Months

I can't believe Phoebe is 6 months already (well, almost 6 1/2 actually). Look how HUGE she is sitting on Julia's lap! Sorry for the lack of blogging, but, we have been under the weather ever since Thanksgiving. It has been a long 2 weeks, but, we are all feeling better (not all the way, but, close!). At Phoebe's 6 month check up she weighed 16 1/2 #'s, so, she is about 1/2 a Julia:)

Thanksgiving 2009

We made our yearly trip to KC for Thanksgiving to visit Jake's side of the family. Leah & baby Luke are Julia & Phoebe's 2nd cousins. All the kids had lots of fun playing together!

Julia & Morgan live it up @ the Shedd

Today we went to the shedd w/ our friend Morgan & her Mommy, Sarah. We had so much fun! These 2 are hilarious together & cracked us up all day long. After that we went to see Grandma & Grandpa, so, that made for a very long day. On the ride home Julia said "Mommy, I had fun w/ Morgan today" then "Mommy, I take a nap"!

dress up

Julia came up with this interesting ensemble!

Last Week

We watched Franky Tues & Wed last week & also Uncle Jeff came for a visit!

Birthday Party

We went to Brandon's 1st Birthday party & had lots of fun!

Big Girl!

5 months!

Papa Ricky

Julia had lots of fun playing "house" w/ her Papa Ricky!

Halloween 2009

Just when you think you know somebody...Julia was ALL about Halloween. She absolutely loved going door to door. She led the pack of her & her friends. I couldn't believe it. Before we went out I said to Jake "let's not even try to get her to go to the houses, maybe she will see Franky & Mia do it & want to go." Without any hesitation at all she went & probably would have kept going & going. At first she had it backwards & wanted to give the candy to the people instead of the other way around, but, quickly she learned & loved it!

Pumpkin Carving

We were very proud of our pumpkins!

Baby Loves Disco!

On the 18th we went to this event called "Baby Loves Disco" at a bar in Naperville. I won 4 tickets to the event & so we went with the Derwins. Julia was very out of her element & wasn't quite sure about it all, but, it really was a lot of fun. I really wish she had enjoyed herself more, they were people there doing hair & face painting, would have loved if Julia would have taken part in that....oh well! here is a link to a family pic they took of us there. Not the best picture, but, what can you do! here are a couple more from the day:

Fun w/friends

Yesterday we hit up a local pumpkin patch with some of our friends. It was very muddy!

So Short!

Julia's hair was looking a little shaggy, so, I took her in today for a cut. I think I had them cut it too short...whoops. She still looks cute though. Luckily hair grows back!

Norton's Pumpkin Patch

Sat we ran over to Norton's Pumpkin Patch in St. Charles to get our pumpkin's & play with Franky. They have a fun set up there & it is only 2 bucks to get in. It was such a beautiful fall day!

choo-choo

At the Lombard mall they have the cutest train. Julia loved it...I was shocked she rode it!

"what's your name, sister?"

one of my favorite things that Julia said to Phoebe one day. Not sure why it struck me, I just thought it was cute!

love her!

& all her crazy expressions!