Christmas and 4 months!

We spent Christmas this year in Las Vegas, with a detour up to good ol' Utah for Caitlin's wedding. She was absolutely gorgeous, he was handsome, and the wedding was beautiful. It was really fun to see family and introduce them to our little Charlotte. She also got to meet her Uncle Jason! Unfortunately, my camera was out of sorts so we don't really have any pictures. I will try to snag some of Caitlin to post if she doesn't mind. :)

Here's a video of Charlotte in her Christmas present from her mama and daddy:

And here are some of my favorite pics from Christmas:

The beautiful Haymore family and Taylor hiding on the side.

Sweet Charlotte taking a snooze after church.

Lincoln thoroughly enjoying some Christmas toast.

And Charlotte so happy to be at lunch with her papa, mama, and daddy.

So both of our husbys were gone for New Year's Eve. Of course we would do something silly like sponge curlers in our hair. Not a good look the next day.

Charlotte and her favorite Bamba!

It was a wonderful visit and I really miss the weather--especially on the single digit days up here. It was so fun to hang out with everyone and I can't wait until we all get together again.

Charlotte Blessing Pictures

So this is a little late--but I just got the pics of Charlotte on her blessing day and I wanted to share! She wore the same dress I wore when I was blessed (thanks for taking such good care of it, Mom!)

Apparently I was a lot fatter than she is, because she was swimming in this dress.

Big stretch!
You gotta love a good crying face!

Some fun things . . .

Charlotte slept through the night last night! Hurray! She slept from 10:30 pm to 6:45 am and I was so proud of her.

Also fun--at the gym I saw my first live raccoon. He meandered in front of the window when I was on the treadmill and I got so excited. Nobody else there thought it was very special though.

Since we moved in, Peter has often says when he has walked in that the apartment smells like curry. We finally checked our mail at the new place and these are the names of people that used to live here:

Yegna Ramasubramania

Nemali Balakrishnan

Yashodhan Joshi

Kamakshi Balakrishnan

Yegna Balasubrananian

Curry indeed!


Charlotte can use her bumbo now! She does not always love it but she is so cute in it.


More bumboness . . .


I love the bit of chub she gets under her eyes when she smiles!

I don't know why I couldn't get this picture the right way, but here she is just hanging out with her daddy.

Charlotte and her smiles!

We blessed our sweetie Charlotte today and it was an awesome experience. We have been the luckiest parents to get such a darling baby and I will post some pics from that soon.

Here is a video of her hanging out with her Uncle Kevin (it is kind of noisy in the background but that is the best we have for now). She was really smiley and talkative today . . .

And here she is just hanging out on the ground.

Our Apartment

Here is a virtual tour of our apartment almost all unpacked . .

Our move to Michigan . . . take 2

Within a week, we received a job offer, packed up our apartment in Texas, and moved to Michigan where Peter has already started his new job. It was too amazing of a job offer to pass up as Peter will get to work on the Viper team.

While we went from a high of 80 degrees to a high of 40 degrees with a chance of snow tonight, moving to Michigan definitely has its perks.
Peter's family lives here and it is a blast being by them.
It is beautiful here right now and I got to see some leaves in their fall splendor.

And one of my favorite perks . .
I get to buy Charlotte lots of new clothes! Here she is nice and toasty warm. She also has a sweet bear suit and some fun tights so she can be stylish in the cold.





Charlotte is starting to smile lots each day and here is the tail end of one. Anytime we get our camera out she gets shy and so we haven't got a full on smile in a picture yet.










There are tons of things that we will miss about Texas (the warmth, the tex mex, the community events) but most of all we will miss our friends. We had the best friends there and will miss them the most.

Baby Lottie

Our sweet Charlotte is 6 weeks today and we have had so much fun with her. We are all starting to understand each other better now and she is such a joy. She has also finally learned that the binky is her friend (Hallelujah for binkies!). Lottie is finally in the 9 lb range but these pictures are from a couple weeks ago.


This is her favorite way to sleep--arms straight up! Also, her umbilical cord is now finally gone, but you can see it here (blech).


We took a bunch of pictures here trying to show how cute her face is but this is the best we got. She got kind of fed up by the end.



Her second favorite way of sleeping. And who better to nap with than Grandma?


I'll post some more recent ones shortly!