Fun with Aunt Aleksa!

Erik's sister, Aleksa, visited with us over Thanksgiving. She and Meredith had lots of giggles, snuggle time, and lots and lots of play time together.

Daddy and Mama had a date over the weekend, thanks to Aleksa babysitting - yay! Hope you can come back again soon, Aleksa!

Wake Up, Daddy!

I used Meredith to wake up Erik a few weeks ago when his afternoon nap lasted a bit too long...

She really relished her job!

He was happy to see her, as always. :-)

This photo below is a month late - from October - Halloween, in fact. We dressed up for the Chipotle deal $2 for a burrito if you dress up as "junk food." So....can you guess what we are as a family?
hint: MJ does look like a tomato...but she's a 'form' of tomato to go along with us. :-)

Thanksgiving 2010

We had a lovely, simple Thanksgiving celebration at home this year. Erik's sister, Aleksa, visited us from Chicago - yay! She helped with the food preparations on Wednesday and gave excellent moral support with the cooking of the turkey on Thursday. :-) We are really enjoying her time with us and all the time she's spending with MJ.

Meredith had a bit of a rough day of teething on Thanksgiving (Aleksa is her kind sympathizer in this photo)...but, it was worth it because a tooth popped through this morning!

The festive table!
Ah...the spread!

I think the sweet potato-pear puree was a favorite for everyone - it definitely had MJ's vote!

Reading with Granna

Meredith loves reading time!

Family Photos

Here's our favorite family photo so far. :-) A quick preview for Christmas cards to come....

And...many more photos of family while Mom visited and Jonny, Bria and Lila were here a few weekends ago.

What a good looking trio!

So...yes, I made Meredith and Lila matching onesies. :-) Too fun! Wee autumn/harvest girlies! (the table is blocking it, but the bottom of the onesies have ruffles - blue check.)

Cousins at 7 months

This post is a week late....but I wanted to get these photos out anyway. More fun times with family!! Last weekend cousin Lila Mae came to visit with her parents, Jonny and Bria. We had a lovely visit with them. Meredith and Lila were so cute together and were very interested in each other!


A few family members even managed to catch a nap here and there. We had Lila sneak in and wake up her Daddy after a while... :-)

Cousins reunited!

Working on standing up! Although, with a slippery wood floor it was pretty tough...but they kept persevering. I love how Lila has her hand on Meredith's shoulder. :-)

Lots of giggles and squeals while they were chillin' together....

Meredith at 7 months

Meredith has special Daddy time when Erik gets home from work each day.

Lots of snuggling time this past week when Granna visited!

a bit fuzzy...but I love this one. Isn't it cute that MJ is doing the same arm motion as Granna?! As if she needs to pull back her wispy hair. :-)

sweet smiles and a favorite blue sweater

This past week, Grandma McKinzie ("Granna") came for a visit. So, MJ had lots of special time with her Granna and a whole lot of fun. They read many stories together and played all sorts of games. Giggling and wee shrieks of glee were re-accuring parts of each day while Granna was here. :-)


My favorite sweater on Meredith right now is a light blue cardigan sent from Grandma Petersons. Her eyes sparkle in it and she's just too cute!