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Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Lydia's Blessing and Christmas Presents in October


We forgot to take our picture at church...so here we are in the kitchen :) Granny made Lydia's dress and it is beautiful! Nick will be mad that I shared this but...when we got to church that morning he asked me what Lydia's middle name was...as if that isn't funny enough! I told him Ruth and he explained to me that he had been thinking Ruthann or Ann all morning. I just laughed at him. Well, as he started the blessing he came to the part about her name and said Lydia Ann, then of course he paused and corrected it to Lydia Ruth, lol! So when they sat back down he said the whole way up to the stand he was telling himself "not Ann, not Ann..." hee hee! It was pretty funny to us! Everyone at church thought maybe he had changed her name! I told him it was Gram Vogel (Ann) trying to get us to name Lydia after her :) I guess my next girl will have to be Ann :) Ruth is my Grandma Kokinda's middle name :)

Sweet baby girl!



It's hard to decide which pictures to share sometimes! So I chose a few!

This is Lydia's routine at night...fall asleep on the couch while Mommy and Daddy straightened up the house.


Christmas presents from Daddy! We decided to give Julius his train set early, really wanted to enjoy the happiness together! While I worked the camera Nick practiced his multitasking!

Julius is saying "choo choo" at this point and is very ready to get those trains out of there!

Get this paper out of here!

And the train track!

"Whoa!" "What's that?"

Setting up the track!

It was definitely worth giving him his present early!! We have all enjoyed playing with the train track! Can't believe he is old enough to play with trains already!!

Helicopters and fall leaves! It was a blustery day outside, but I wanted to snap a pic of the beautiful leaves before they were all blown off the trees!

Lydia--1 month!