Monday, February 15, 2010

We Have Certainly Been Busy!!!

Jay, Vivien and I have certainly been busy! We had a wonderful holiday season and saw many of our family and friends! Jay also accepted a job at Purina and we are in the process of moving to St. Louis! We are very excited!

Vivien brings us much joy every day! She is now sitting up, eating cereal and pears, giggling and fake coughing. She is very curious and loves to say da-da!

We celebrated Thanksgiving this year with the Simm Family! We had a wonderful meal and were very thankful for all three beautiful babies that came into our life during 2009!


We visited Jay's family in Minneapolis over Thanksgiving weekend. Vivien was very excited to see Grandpa and Grandma!

Vivien also met her Aunt Amy for the first time!


And absolutely LOVES her Cousin Charlie!

And, her Cousin Anna was sooo sweet and took great care of Vivien!


We celebrated St. Nicholas Day and Vivien received her very own cell phone!


Uncle Kyle and Uncle Cory visited us in December and we went to the mountains to watch the snowboard competitions!


Our nanny, Kim, moved back to Boston over the holidays! We have certainly missed Kim but our family has pitched in and Vivien has loved every minute of it!


Vivien's First Christmas was very much celebrated! Doesn't she look like a little baby doll?!!



Vivien, Oliver and Charlotte were very anxious about Santa Claus coming! They were very busy on Christmas Eve - they went to church, celebrated Aunt Jessica's birthday, made cookies for Santa Claus and were patient enough to have their pictures taken before they went to bed :-)


Vivien LOVES her bouncy from Santa Claus! She is really good at making a lot of noise!


The only bummer during our Christmas vacation was that we spent 12 hours in O'Hare airport and missed the Kamps Family Christmas Party :-( However, Vivien was definitely the happiest person in the airport and our time there went by a lot faster as we were very busy entertaining and meeting a lot of new people - she is very social!


Vivien did finally make it to Combined Locks and met her Great Aunt Perc and Great Aunt Theresa!


And, Vivien met her Uncle Steve - it looks like she is sharing some great Christmas stories!


She also enjoyed hanging out with Uncle Matt while the "big kids" played Wii!


We celebrated Jay's birthday in early January and Vivien helped him blow out his candles!


Grandpa and Grandma Kamps visited us in Denver for two weeks - Vivien had so much fun! She helped Grandma make her famous Valentine cookies and she enjoyed reading the paper and working on the computer with Grandpa!


Aunt Deb also stayed with us for a week in Denver! Vivien, Lindsay and Deb kept very busy walking through the park and preparing the house for a lot showings!
Jay surprised Vivien and I with a trip to Los Cabos Mexico! We had a wonderful and very relaxing time!


Isn't she adorable!


We enjoyed a beautiful walk along the beach one morning and even saw some whales!


Vivien really enjoyed the water and went swimming around the pool with Jay!


Doesn't she look so chic in her fashionable sunglasses!

She really loved hanging out with Jay on our hotel room patio - I think that may be a whale in the background?!!

Isn't this the picture of relaxation! What an angel!