Heidi's baptism...must see gorgeous dress!

Heidi was baptized today! I hated to add to the chaos that is the holidays, but Heidi's sponsors live in Tennessee and are only up for a couple week span, so we had to pick a weekend that they were here. To add to the craziness that the holidays brings, we had this super-warm day yesterday, which meant the snow started melting causing everything to be wet, which then froze overnight causing my driveway to turn to pure ice, which was then covered with 3 inches of fresh snow. Yeah. Fun. So in the midst of getting ready to get out the door by 8:30 this morning, we had to try to figure out how all these people are going to get to our house when our driveway is the equivalent of a steep uphill wet ice rink.

Our truck (woot-woot Tundra) got up the driveway, but it was the only one. I intended on having Josh chauffer people in the truck from the bottom of the driveway to the top, but everyone just hopped out of their vehicles and merrily shuffled their way up the driveway (in dress shoes and bearing gifts, no less). Love of family is a wonderful thing.

Anyway, the baptism itself went well. Heidi was pretty good in church, being as it was her naptime and she was hungry but was too distracted to drink her bottle. She fussed a little bit during the head-wetting, but then smiled as Josh walked her around the church to meet her new "family." She was a bit crabby at home, since she fell asleep on the way home and slept for a few minutes in her car seat at home before she was woken up by all the excitement.

I got a few pics, including some fabulous ones before hand. The dress was hand-made by my sister and I just love it! It was perfect! Without further ado...pictures!

Us and the Godparents, don't mind the blur

Us and Heidi

Beautiful girl in a beautiful dress!

Heidi loved the dress and played with it all day!

Thank you Aunt Laura for making me such a beautiful dress!

The only thing that would have made the day better would have been having Aunt Laura and Cousin Keagen with us! Feel better soon Keagie!

Like Mother, Like Daughter...

Well, Heidi has recently picked up one of my best habits, and one of my worst...Let's start with the best:

Here she is doing a little light reading:

Did I read it right, mama?

This is a good book:

And sometimes, you have to taste the book to really get the feel...

And then there is my worst habit...at least she doesn't have any teeth to rot out yet...

At least she got her daddy's good looks...

Heidi does laundry

It's a link to a video...it's really funny :)

http://vimeo.com/2548619

Oh Christmas Tree...

Every year we go to Josh's aunt and uncle's Christmas tree farm and cut our own tree. This year we had to take Heidi out on the hunt with us for the perfect tree. She has a good eye for finding pretty trees, but she's not so good with the saw, so we had to let daddy do the cutting down.

We got the tree put up and mommy even bought special twinkling lights for Heidi to stare at. We got all of her Baby's First Christmas ornaments hung up on the tree. The lights are on. The ribbon is wrapped. And Heidi could care less. She never gives the tree a second glance. Oh well, I'm sure next year we'll wish we had that problem...

My little snowbunny!

Well, we had our first big snow of the season on Monday night. We were all snowed in on Tuesday (me, Heidi, Emily, and a sick Josh). I was out shoveling and decided that it wasn't too cold, so we bundled up the Heidster to get her first feel of the snow. She didn't seem to know what to think and she didn't have her hands out so she couldn't really feel it except for when it landed on her face. I think she was mostly overcome by the brightness of it! Here are some pics to document another first:

All bundled up. The snow was deep enough it supported her so she could sit without help!

Not completely sure what she's looking at here...

Yeah, mommy ran to get the camera from daddy and forgot about the overly friendly pups. So Heidi got a couple licks from the Mol.

And then she started falling into the snow

Heidi and mommy. Don't mind me, all bundled up from shoveling...

So, that's enough snow for the year now, it can melt any time :)