the giles family

Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Christmas 2008

We had a wonderful Christmas! Chrissy came in town on Christmas Eve. We made pies and cookies and went to a Christmas Eve service at our church that evening. After church we went to dinner at Olive Garden and drove around looking at Christmas lights. Christmas morning, Madeline was awake at 5:30 and came into our room multiple times to try to get us up. Poor Chrissy - she chose to sleep with Madeline that night, so while we were able to "snooze" between Madeline's wake up calls until 7 am...Chrissy was not so fortunate. We had to wake Hannah up because we couldn't see making Madeline wait another minute. They had a great time opening gifts. Santa brought Madeline a guitar and Hannah a neat tricycle. After cleaning up all of the wrapping paper and boxes, we went to my mother - in - law's house where we celebrated Christmas with Chris' mom, sister Becca, sister Manda and her new hubby Cody, sister Joy, bro in law Mick and neice and nephews Austin, Heather and Phillip. My dad came too ~ I absolutely love getting to celebrate with my dad, sister and in laws at once.

Here's a video of Madeline when she received her Christmas gift from Aunt Joanne and Uncle Ralph. I'll post christmas pics later...We LOVE you guys!!

Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Hannah's first hair cut...

We took Hannah for her first hair cut last week in preparation for Manda and Cody's wedding. Here are some before, during and after pics...

Hannah in the car with Madeline, pre cut:

The back of Hannah's pretty hair before it was snipped. I forgot to take an after pic of the back but we basically just trimmed it so it was even all the way around:

Hannah looking rather doubtful...Madeline was a very encouraging big sister:

Hannah's going, Mom why are you doing this to me?? But to her credit, there were no tears. She's a very brave little girl!

Hannah's new do (and yes that's her sucking on the hair covered cape - yuck!)

Thanksgiving...

We spent thanksgiving at the Giles' home and my dad and sister were able to join us. We had a wonderful time roasting smore's and making a gingerbread house. Here are some pics from our holiday!!!

Hannah with her Papa:

Chrissy, Madeline and Irene with the gingerbread house:

Chrissy and Madeline:

Madeline - cutie pie!

Madeline and I with our gingerbread house and the girl Madeline later ate:

Phillip, Cody and Chris being goofy with some roasted meat:

Top: Chrissy, Jen, Heather

Bottom: Manda, Becca

Papa and a sleepy Hannah at the bon fire:

One of the many silly pics Chrissy and I took that night (Chrissy looks pretty!)

Chrissy and Madeline, chillin':

Jen feeding Hannah her first roasted marshmallow:

This is just a silly pic that Madeline asked me to take. She set the scene by bringing a stool into the kitchen. She told Hannah to get in her lap and then proceeded to tell me that she is Mary and Hannah is Baby Jesus. I thought it was sweet that Hannah was completely compliant. Aren't they cute??!!

Monday, December 22, 2008

A Park Play Date - Nov 08

Here are some pics of a play date we had with our friends Michelle, Zach and Laney and Jennifer, Brooke and Camryn. Brooke and Madeline are are both 4 yrs old, Zach is 2 yrs old and Laney, Hannah and Camryn are all 1 yr old. We had a great time!

Left: Jennifer, Camryn, Zach
Middle: Madeline
Right: Michelle and Brooke