Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Here are some pictures of Emily's 1st Christmas and our New Years. It was even more special seeing as this is the first time Antonio has been home for the holidays in 3 years. Hope you enjoy!
Here is our Christmas tree, loaded with all the presents after Santa came to visit.
She was so excited when she unwrapped her Elmo Live! She is madly in love with Elmo.
Here she is, she learned to smile for the camera, but makes such a funny face when she does it! She is such a ham. And of all the toy she got Christmas morning, she played with those 2 balls all day long! They came with her kitchen set. She was so thrilled with them!
My family came down from the 26th-29th. It was so NICE when they where here! We took Emily to the park.

Emily swinging on the swing. Don't let her face fool you, she really had a blast! She was starting to get pooped out when I took this picture.
We spent New Years at Antonio's Godmother's house. She lives about 2 hours away from us in Cary, NC, with Antonio's Grandparents. We had a great time! Emily LOVED playing with the boys. That is Christian in the picture, who is 5. There is also David, 6, and Joel, 10. They were great with her though and entertained her the whole time. Fine by me!
Here she is with her New Years hat on! She definitely did not keep that on for very long.
"Holy crap Daddy, what is on your head?"
Ringing in 2009, so happy together

Foreshadowing?


So clearly, a lot happened between the last 2 pictures. I won't get into it, I'll just say it involved a LOT of tequila and a lot of vomit. This is where he ended up. I was not (AM not) too thrilled, but none the less, its still a really cute picture.

Emily with her great-great parents. They were in their glory.
And finally here is one of my favorite pictures of Emily. I took this one on Christmas day, she was totally hamming it up for the camera that day! I love this one!