Birthday, Christmas and a New Year!!

Life keeps flying by! I keep meaning to post new pictures (when I remember to take any!) and let everyone know how well Faith has been doing, but then I get distracted by whatever is going on at the moment. I'm at Anthony's first basketball practice tonight, so seems like a good time to do some catching up!

Anthony celebrated his 9th birthday early in VA at Mimi and Papa's house and then on the 15th with about a dozen boys from school over for games, pizza, cake and a sleepover on Saturday, Dec 15th, and then one more time with the family on his real birthday on the 19th.  It seemed like a never ending birthday!  I hope he enjoyed it!!

Anthony with Faith and niece Carly!

He also won a great award at school right before Christmas for "living" the school's golden rules of respect, responsibility, and safety.  He was so excited to win this!

Faith has had a great first semester in first grade.  She is really learning a lot and has started to read on her own!! That's exciting as she was so hesitant in Kindergarten to take any risks! 

Christmas was very nice, although Anthony woke with some kind of 24-hr bug and had to go back to bed in between presents.  Santa brought lots of new toys including an Xbox for Anthony and a bike with a horn for Faith (ask me sometime about Santa's big mistake!) and we had Lauren, Carly, Ryan, Dana, Aaron, Karen and Bill over for a big brunch and more gifts.  It was really nice to have such a full house!

On New Year's Dana and Aaron moved into the "new basement apartment"!  It seems pretty good for them and they are getting ready for baby Hallie to arrive soon (2/22 is the due date).  The baby shower is this weekend at Karen's house.  

We are also getting ready for Faith's next round of jaw surgeries, on Feb 6th and March 8th in Cincinnati again.  I'll post more soon with details.

Gotta run for now, my cell phone battery is about to run out!

Robin