Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Catch Up

What a crazy week!


There is SO much going on in the Welbourn home.  Here is a glimpse of the pre-Christmas festivities.  The Christmas post will come within the next few days as well since I have my wonderful husband home to help me with Kippy while I get all caught up on EVERYTHING! 

This month started off with some quiet birthday celebrations.
Daddy was first!


Then we celebrated Uncle Dean's birthday!


We travelled to Hamilton to Kiptyn's First Baby Christmas party.  It was so much fun being with all those beautiful babies and meeting some of the wonderful women I met online one year ago.  At this party there were about 20 of us with 20 babies!


As a group we decided to pool our money together and help out a couple of the women who were struggling a bit over the Christmas holidays.  We had less than 24 hours to pull it off and we collected over $1200 just from ourselves.  It felt so nice to know that we had helped a few of the ladies that we all care so much about.  It brought us to tears knowing that their Christmas will be just a little bit brighter.  I usually try to help a family or two each year.  My mom and I used to go out to the malls the week before Christmas and hand out money to a family that had a bunch of kids and seemed like they could use a little extra cash to bring some extra joy to their children's eyes on Christmas.


The wonderful ladies in this group have all said many times that one day we will have to meet up somewhere so that we can all be together.  Seventy women all together in one place (other than our online chat room) would be a blast.  Although I only know most of them through the computer I feel like I have known them forever.  They are such a great support group and I don't know what I would have done without them since Kiptyn came around! 


Sleepy



Bug and I went wedding dress shopping with Jessica.  Kiptyn and Ella hung out on the floor and gave their opinions...


 Oakridge held a Christmas party for the children and so we took Kiptyn briefly so that he could sit on Santa's knee once again.  He didn't want to smile but he sure loved being around all those kids!


Went went to a second Baby Christmas party the week after!  There were less babies but that gave us more opportunity to take some creative photos!   They were SO cute!

Here is Asher


Max


Shane


Parker


Kiptyn


Circle of Friends


Riley, Parker, Asher, Lily, Shane, Kiptyn, Max, and Kate!


 On the couch



Kiptyn and his girl Lily sharing a cry...



My handsome blue eyed baby


And the fun begins!  Break out the Santa diapers and get the babies naked!






Lily and Kiptyn after the photo shoot...they had both had enough.



After the party we stopped by Grandma and Grandpa Welbourn's house.  Grandpa Welbourn showed Kiptyn the big snow globe.  He loved it!



Here is my boy outside enjoying his FIRST snowfall!



In the morning, I try to keep Kiptyn occupied while I get myself ready for the day.  This day he watched contently as Elmo sang his song on my iPhone.



Kiptyn's adorable and cozy looking sleepers inspired me.....yes I am seriously wearing Christmas pj's with FEET and a HOOD!  Amazing!


That's all for now.  I hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas and thanks again for reading! Hugs to all of our friends and family.  We are so blessed to have you all in our lives.



Sunday, December 18, 2011

10 MORE weeks of Kiptyn!

It has been another 10 weeks! Here are weeks 11 through 20...

WEEK 11



WEEK 12



WEEK 13



WEEK 14



WEEK 15



WEEK 16



WEEK 17



WEEK 18



WEEK 19



WEEK 20


I hope everyone is enjoying this holiday season!  One more week until Kiptyn's FIRST Christmas!