There is an event that I look forward to each Christmas and that is the family party with my Dad’s family. My Dad has seven sisters and so we have a very large family. This year the party was very early because of everyone’s schedules but that is okay, it kind of took the pressure off everyone. This was also a great year because all of my aunts and my Dad and my grandparents were at the party. That means a family picture. I’ve taken quite a few of them over the years and I am happy to do so.
This year was also special because Eva is at that stage where everything she does is insanely adorable. And trying to be as non-biased as possible, she did very well walking all around the party. She managed not to get knocked down by all the bigger kids and she only fell over a few times. Once right on her face. She did manage to maneuver a step into the sunken living room. She would walk right up to the edge and sit down, many times without prompting too.
I took many pictures today and here are some that I really liked.
Today we took Eva to visit with Allison’s grandparents, both sets. We had a nice morning in and slept late. We needed a little extra sleep. Then we headed up to Fitchburgh, MA. We went to John and Eva’s house where Bob and Jackie met us and the 7 of us enjoyed an afternoon of visiting, pizza and brownies. The Great-Grandparents were thrilled to spent the time with Eva. She was so cute. Eva is walking and talking a bit now and she has a very nice sense of comedic timing. She really has a good understanding of what we ask of her and it just amazes people.
After a wonderful afternoon we headed home and stopped at the Solomon Pond Mall. I am pretty anti-Black Friday because of the huge displays of greed but we were stopping to return something and I can get behind getting money back. The trip turned into a little more than a return though. I had been sitting in the car with Eva because she passed out 2 minutes into the ride home. The kid had been going non stop since 8:30am. Allison texted me that Stride Rite was having a sale of buy one pair get the second at 50% off. Eva is walking now and she needs some actual shoes so I brought her into the mall and we picked out two very cute pairs of shoes. I have two photos of Eva getting shoes, man I am in trouble now. We picked out two very cute pairs that my mom said she would buy for her for Eva’s birthday. When mom comes home with the Christmas Tree tomorrow she’ll see Eva in some very cute footwear.
I’m off to Watch the Psych Christmas Episode. I think they did one last year too. I love that show.
I hope that you remember that I have two contests happening right now. One is to choose the 12 photos from this past year that should be part of the 2009 Photo-A-Day Calendar and the other is for a Digital Photo Frame from Edge Tech Corp. Easy to enter and you have 2 more days.
