Leah: 5 weeks

Random pictures

Trying to get some cute pictures of the girls.  No matter what someone is being goofy.  Oh well, it does show off their personality!

Sledding

The big snow storm was fun for about 2 days, and then it got icy, we lost power and I was over it.  We lost power for 3 days.  We toughed it out at home.  We have a gas fireplace and gas burners so we were able to stay a bit warm and cook food.  It wasn't all that bad, but I was really ready for it to come back on!  The first few days of snow were so much fun.  The girls loved sledding, making their snowman and having daddy home :-).

Random Cuteness

Just some random pictures of my three adorable girls :-).Leah is about 3 weeks old here.  

Christmas Eve

Christmas was crazy this year.  We just moved, had a newborn, had tons of family events plus we hosted the Stanley's on Christmas day.  We had a wonderful time but honestly, am glad December is over!!!  The girls had a blast every second of it.  It was so crazy, I only took my camera out on Christmas Eve, I completely forgot to take one single picture of Christmas day, oops!

Girl Cousins watching The Grinch

Mia and Leah.  Mia is my step-brother's, Todd, daughter.  

All the grandchildren caroling

 

 Present time!

Snowflake Lane

Each year my sisters and I meet for Santa pictures at the mall, have dinner at Red Robin and then go to Snowflake Lane. The cousins love it and it is turning into one of my favorite holiday traditions!

Watching the "snow" come down

Despite their faces, they are having fun!

Little Leah slept through it all

Carlsen Christmas

The Carlsen Christmas was as fun as ever this year :-). We visited with family, sang songs and even had a visit from Santa! Leah had her first ferry ride also, but no pictures of that....

Reese having fun, she would not sit with Santa at this party

Leah's first Santa visit

Julia and Santa

All the 2nd cousins

First Holds

Julia and Reese LOVE to hold Leah. Julia can hold her for hours and Reese for about 2 minutes, but she still loves it. Below are pictures of the first time they each held her, at home.

First Bath

Leah was not a huge fan of her first bath. Despite the pictures below she does not like bath time. Although she is getting better and better. She does not cry in the bath now, just after when we are drying off and putting lotion on. Understandable, it does get cold.

Leah's Visitors

Leah had plenty of visitors in the hospital! All of the cousins came also, but I thought the # of pictures would be overkill :-). She is loved by her family and friends! There are a few friends that I must have forgot to take a picture of when they came to the hospital.....sorry friends.

Sisters!

The girls meeting Leah for the first time. They absolutely LOVE having a baby sister and they both do so well with her. We are going to have so much fun with 3 girls! Daddy, get your gun out for the teenage years :-).

Leah's Birthday, Welcome Sweet One!

There are hardly any pictures of Jim and I with Leah, I think we were in too much shock to think straight and get the pictures we wanted!