Christmas and New Years!

Here is our family Christmas picture.  And below is hilarious.  Poor guy is always being smoothered by Brynlee and I!

Cheesecake baby shower is ingenious!

This is Brynlee making her "I'm busy mom" look as I tried to document how much fun she was having at Nan's toy room!

This giant building was Uncle Keith's project for that last few years.  It was gorgeous!

We got the tour of the whole building!

We sat in the board of director's chairs and got to see Uncle Keith's suite!

You can't visit Cincinnati without going to Graeters Icecream!

Brynlee always takes to Nan and Keith so well!  I wonder why - they spoil her the whole time!

Uncle Keith's boss - he had 3.  We parked next to them and I felt important!

I couldn't get a good picture of Brynlee at the Zoo.  A she was so tired, B she was just enthralled at all the animals.  She found "Gerdy's mom and dad!"

They had all their Christmas lights up.  It was gorgeous!

The train ride around the park!

And Callen was a dream the whole time!

Here is a video of Christmas Eve!

Untitled from Nicole Gneiting on Vimeo.

We woke up and opened most of the presents before leaving for the Branch at 9:20 for 10 am 1 hr meeting.  It was really good with Christmas songs and scriptures the whole hour!  Then we came home to a good dinner/lunch.  We finished opening up presents, playing around and cleaning up!  Then we started finishing some projects to put our house on the market!  Finally we finished the night out with some friends and banana grahms and mint mud pie!  Then after finishing our projects we left to Cincinnati for the rest of the week.  It was so so fun!  It's always good to visit Nan's "Bed and Breakfast!"  They make us feel like a million bucks and I just love catching up and learning from them!  Then we came home for New Years.  We played family fued (which turned into quite a feud) and cranium which I am horrible at!  I'm complaining - it really was fun and I will really miss it here.  I'll miss the great friends we have made!  Then we put the house up for sale!!! YEAH!  Please spread the word to all your Pittsburgh-bound friends!  We have some appointments with agents coming up but we thought we would try and do the "for sale by owner" for a while.  I'm just so excited for these changes.  I'm embracing them so much better this time.  I told Dev its because I finally trust and love him!  Kidding.  I think it's because I know I can do it - I have already moved across the country and everything turned out fine!  I just can't wait to see where we end up!  YEAH for change and 2012!  Happy New Year everyone!