Christmas at our house

I finally uploaded our photos from Christmas. Since I did all the photography, there are zero pictures of me. I really was there, I promise! We had a great day. My parents and siblings were all here to celebrate Kieran's first Christmas with us. It was a fun day. Here are a few snapshots of our Christmas morning...
Our cat turned three this Christmas. She got a new toy in her stocking.
Kieran and Daddy opening a gift. What is it??
It's a school bus from Aunt Katie & Uncle Jonathan!
Thank you Aunt Katie and Uncle Jonathan!
Kieran gets a kiss from Auntie Kendra. He's too excited about his new toys to stop for kisses!
Grandma & Grandpa get framed pictures of Kieran, of course!
Kieran sporting his new Converse tennis shoes. Thanks Casey! He loves them.

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas! We've had a full house for the past week, and no time to blog or upload pictures. Here's one of Kieran and me making banana bread for our guests last week. We had a wonderful first Christmas with him. When there's time, we'll get some pictures up of our holiday celebration. Hope you had a good Christmas and our prayers are with all adopting families who are waiting for their children. May 2010 bring many referrals!

More fun firsts

Our first bit of snow this winter. Hopefully we'll get more so Kieran can really experience the wonder of it.

We went to a flight museum. Kieran loves airplanes, so he was completely overwhelmed with awe and wonder to be surrounded by aircraft. It was hard to get him to look at the camera for a picture!

The hot air balloon simulation was one of his favorites because he could make the balloon go up and down.

Future astronaut?

"Merry Krimmas!"

Kieran shows Piglet a Christmas ornament from Rwanda.

Piglet looks on with great interest as Kieran hangs the ornament on the tree
So many firsts: Kieran's first Christmas tree, the first ornament on the tree for the year, our first Christmas as a family of three, er... four (sorry Piglet), what a special year this is for all of us!
"Merry Krimmas", says Kieran. He isn't really sure what all this Christmas stuff is all about, but he loves looking at the tree and the lights. Tonight we're going to add the rest of the ornaments together.

Catching up

I know, we haven't posted anything in a while. So this is a miscellaneous post to catch you up on the latest at our house.
We had a wonderful Thanksgiving with family.

Mike braved the cold on Tuesday to finish the fence.

Kieran and I decided to get some fresh air and watch the progress on the fence.

Kieran thinks his Daddy is awesome.

Kieran leans in close to Mommy for a cute snuggly photo. I love it!

The fence is done!! It looks awesome. I think the neighbors are jealous. :)

Kieran is an irresistible subject to photograph. He loves getting his picture taken, so it works out well for all of us!

P.S. Some of my photos are cut off on the right side (yes, I'm right and left challenged!). I don't know why, and can't seem to fix it. However, if you click on each individual picture, you can see the whole thing. Computers...arg!