here we go steelers, here we go!

Drew and I lived in Pittsburgh for a few years while he was in grad school and {without a doubt} the biggest thing we took away from the city of three rivers is our love of the Steelers!

No matter where we live we'll always be Steelers fans now.  Go 'burg!

Drew has been asking me for a quilt of his own to use on chilly winter days, so I decided to make him a Steelers quilt for Christmas.  It was really hard keeping it a secret in our little townhouse - a quilt isn't exactly something that you can whip up in a day and then hide.  I had to keep hiding all the fabric when I was done working for the day.  Not to mention how hard it was to finish a whole quilt while only working during naptimes. 

But I did it!  And I think it turned out really well.  I was so lucky to find the 'football' fabric in black and gold - perfect!
 

Go Steelers!

lounging through the holidays

Asher got a very exciting delivery from the FedEx man last week.  We knew that the car would be STUFFED coming home from Christmas so we decided to have his big gift from Drew's parents shipped right to the house.

Asher loves crawling all over his new bean bag chair!

I thought this 'chair' would be great for him to grow into over the next few years.  We got a simple color that should go with any boy decor throughout his childhood. 

christmas - two thousand ten

I can't believe that we just celebrated Asher's second Christmas.  I called it his first Christmas, I don't know how many times.  Last year was such a blur - A was 12 days old and I was running on a couple hours of sleep.

This Christmas was so much more memorable!  While Ash still doesn't care much about opening gifts he did love playing with things as I opened them for him!  And get gifts he did - everyone was so generous to him.

Drew, Asher and I traveled to New Jersey to spend the holiday with Drew's family this year.  We left VA on Friday morning and arrived in time to head over to Drew's Uncle Ken and Aunt Joanne's house for Christmas Eve dinner. 

The Wilkinson family all get together on Christmas Eve for dinner and gifts - we were so happy to be there this year!  After dinner Asher changed into his Christmas pajamas {I wasn't sure how long he'd last and it was waaay past his bedtime!}.  It was perfect timing because he got dressed just when Santa arrived!

 Some of Drew's cousins have little ones that are around 2 years old and they were the perfect age for Santa.  It was hilarious watching them get excited - 'It's Santa! It's Santa!!'  Love it!

 Asher was playing on the floor when Santa came in and didn't even look until Santa dug around in his sack and came up with a present for him.  When Santa called out 'Asher - is Asher here?' little A looked right around and scrambled over to him!  I picked Asher up and helped him get his present.

Yay, Santa!  Asher got a fun helicopter toy that came with a couple little plastic balls.  Asher got a hold of these blue and green ones and haven't put them down since.  Literally.  He holds them and looks at other stuff, but won't put them down.  It's funny, but kind of weird too!

On Christmas morning Asher was completely inundated with presents - his aunts, uncles, and grandparents went completely overboard!  So fun!

 
Drew and his brothers all received super sharp Shun knifes for Christmas.  Of course they wanted a photo of the knives with the baby.  Mommy was scared - but indulging.

 Asher's great grandparents and great-Uncle Bob came over for Christmas lunch.

 Ash LOVES his Uncle Bob - he's the baby whisperer. 

We had such a wonderful holiday here.  Tomorrow we head back to Virginia to get ready for a big New Years!

It's just as well - Asher is about to enter a holiday coma.

In a good sort of way.  :o)

Merry Christmas - one and all!

merry and bright

We had a wonderful Christmas yesterday.  Our holiday continues over the next few days, so you can expect a big recap once we get home, settled, and back down off the sugar high!

In the meantime, Merry Christmas, friends.

christmas miracle

Christmas is a time to believe in miracles. 

I have more reason than most to believe this year.

Some of you may remember a few weeks ago when I took Asher to his first election.  He was given an "I Voted" sticker from the nice poll workers, but it somehow disappeared on the way home.  When I went to get him out of the car it was completely gone.  I looked everywhere and finally {reluctantly} determined that he ate it??

In preparation for our Christmas vacation I was cleaning out the car yesterday.  I pulled out his car seat's Piddle Pad {that thing majorly saved us from a diaper blowout once and now we'll never travel without it!} and what, to my wondering eyes did appear...

the "I Voted" sticker!

Asher didn't eat it!

It was stuck to the bottom of this pad the whole time.

Now that's a Christmas miracle if I've ever heard of one.

Merry Christmas...every one!