Christmas Photo Shoot

We have been very busy getting ready for Christmas and visiting Santa Claus in Northern and Southern California. Last weekend Catie and I flew to Pasadena for a couple of days while Colin stayed at home and worked. Catie visited Santa Claus at Annandale...I will tell you more about that in the next post.

In the meantime, we took Catie to Union Square to see the window displays and all of the Christmas decorations. Before we walked around Colin, Catie and I grabbed lunch with our friend Marni and my sister, Auntie. Then we had a photo shoot in front of the Christmas tree.

Tomorrow we are headed to the Olympic Club to see Santa Claus. Tomorrow I will post pictures of Santa Claus at Annandale and Santa Claud at the OC club. Until then... Merry, Merry!

Body parts

We are working on eyes and mouth. Stay tuned....

Thanksgiving 2009

So several people have commented on the fact that I haven’t updated my blog for awhile- sorry guys! Things have been busy but that’s no excuse. I will try and post more often and I will include some more videos. We need to put the Flip to more use!

Things have been going well for us and I swear that Catie has gotten even funnier. Example- ask her to point to her nose and she will….but 9 times out of 10 she will point to it by sticking her finger up her nose. It cracks me up every time…and her too!

Catie has begun to take steps (when she feels like it). She will stand on her own for a while and walk every where holding one of your hands but she is still working on walking on her own. The doctor said not to push it. She will do it when she wants to. I just think she crawls because she can get places faster....and man is she fast!!

To recap the holdiday weekend, it was wonderful!!! We had a terrifc Thanksgiving and as usual it went by too fast. My sister and I have lived in Northern California for 7 years and this was the first time that my parents came up to celebrate the holiday. They really wanted to spend Thanksgiving with Catie (and I guess my sister and I too) and they want to spend time with the O’Connell’s (when it wasn’t at a function like a birth, baptism, etc).

For Thanksgiving dinner we went to the O’Connell’s house and had an amazing meal of turkey, stuffing, green beans, sweet potatoes, salad, cranberry sauce and more- the whole nine yards! It was delicious and was so fun to just sit around and talk. My dad was finally able to see the shrine (Colin’s bedroom and all of his trophies) and loved see the pictures of Colin and Joe DiMaggio on the wall. It was a great evening and we all really enjoyed ourselves.

On Friday afternoon we went over to the Sternberg’s to celebrate Lizzie’s 40th …I mean 30th (ha, ha) birthday! It was a great party filled with family, friends, good food and wine. Happy Birthday Lizzie. Thank you for being such a special friend. I love ya!

On Saturday we carried on our tradition of going to cut down our Christmas Tree. My parents, Barbara and Tom, and my sister all joined us as we headed to Petaluma to find the perfect tree. We had a great time and Catie loved it. It is amazing to look back at last year's pictures and see how much she has grown and changed.

A great moment was went Catie sat on Colin while he was cutting it down and tapped him over and over (cut it down faster dad).

The weather was terrific and the day successful (both the O’Connell’s and my sister got their trees too)!

So friends, it’s official, the holidays are here. As most of you know this is my favorite time of year. The Christmas tree is up, the house is decorated, and the Christmas music is playing. Catie even has her own Christmas cd with songs that have her name in them (thanks mom and dad). Cheers to the holiday season and we can’t wait to celebrate with all of you at some point! XOXO