Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas from all of us. Rayna opened her first Christmas presents this year (she actually did help tear the paper --and then proceeded to put it in her mouth). Riley had to make sure the presents were all okay.

You can see the surprise on her face, "Are these all for me?!"

After she checked out all the new toys (and by "checked out" I mean shook and tasted) she was pretty worn out.

(Almost) On the Move

Rayna has started to like her bouncy seat. I think she's starting to understand that she's the one making it bounce. She doesn't have much control yet and is still a little spastic. I'm not sure if I mentioned it before but she has started rolling over. She's pretty good at it and sometimes she even pulls her legs up under her and sticks her butt up in the air.

Apology

I just wanted to clarify and apologize for something I posted earlier. In the post of Rayna's 3 month pictures, I had said I thought I might get pictures done professionally next time, but it was cheaper having my friend do it. It's been pointed out to me that this might have come off as sounding a little haughty and that I didn't think Carina did a good job. That was not how I meant it at all and for the record, I think Carina did a great job and I was really happy with the pictures. I was thinking about getting some professional pictures done because I know some family members would like to have the traditional sitting-in-a-cute-dress pictures. Anyway, I hope that comment wasn't taken the wrong way, but if it was, I apologize and I hope I didn't hurt any feelings.

Beggining to Look A Lot Like Christmas

Here's Rayna and Riley getting in the Christmas spirit. I think Riley was embarrased to wear the hat. I actually had a hard time getting a picture of just Rayna because Riley wouldn't get away from her. She has recently started to notice Riley much to his dismay I think. He runs off when she tries to touch him. I guess he liked it better when he just layed there.
I had to put the bottom pictue on there because I thought it was so funny. Now that her hair is starting to grow I can't get it to lay down so it's always sticking up. I think she looks like Kramer with that expression and the crazy hair.

Also, a couple days ago, John filled out his dream sheet for where he would like to be stationed next. Number one was Colorado Springs and number two was Ohio. I'm not sure how long it will be until we find out but I'll keep everyone posted.

We did finally get some snow (on top of ice unfortunately) and it's been cold enough for it to stick around. Today when I went out it was 17 degrees.

3 Month Pictures

Here are some of the pictures my friend Carina took for me. I think I might do professional ones next time, but I don't know--these are so much cheaper. The baby in the bottom picture is her daughter Abigail. She is only 5 days older than Rayna. That was fun being pregnant at the same time with her.

I thought I might start a little section at the end of each post about the weather here. I know most people are interested in that. Right now we do not have like 3 feet of snow, in fact we don't have any. We got about a foot before Thanksgiving but then it all melted. Today I think it got up to about 25 and it was really sunny.
Sunrise was 9:45 and sunset was 3:50.