Christmas Celebration #2

On the eve of Christmas Eve, we loaded up to make the 8 hour trip up to Indy for our second round of Christmas festivities. This was Lilah's first trip to Carmel and first long road trip. She did great!! We only had to make three stops (one right outside of Nashville, one in Kentucky, and one in Indiana). She slept a good bit of the trip. While awake, I sat in the back and kept her entertained and she was as content as could be.

We continued our Christmas Eve tradition with our newest little addition to the family by going to church followed by a nice dinner. This year we went to Cooper's Hawk Winery and Restaurant. Dinner was delicious!! Lilah got a little bored at dinner which led to rotating shifts of walking her around the restaurant for a change of scenery once and while. Despite the interruptions, we all had a blast!

{Here is Lilah with her Grammy just before leaving for church.}

{A Silent Night just before church}

{Family Photo}

We woke up early on Christmas Day to open presents! Sweet baby girl sure did get spoiled!! Santa wrapped all of Lilah's gifts in cute pink penguin paper. Here she is trying to tear into someone else's gift!

Opening up her present from Uncle Donnie. (I got a new video camera from my wonderful mother-in-law so I've been doing a lot of playing with my new toy. With that being said, here is another video of Lilah opening her presents.)

One of the gifts from my dad to the adults was a packet of pull-tabs. Pull-tabs are similar to lotto tickets. Basically you just pull the tabs to see if your ticket is a winner. Simple concept, huh!?

Lilah loved playing with the losing tickets and mother of the year over here let her go to town.

Winner, Winner Chicken Dinner!

In case you were wondering if anyone of us walked away a winner...in total, we won about $18. My dad went and turned in the winners and bought $10 worth of new tickets and ended up coming away with a $250 winning ticket! Score!!

{Lilah sporting her new Chicago Bears attire from her Uncle Donnie. GO BEARS!}


{Uncle Donnie and Lilah Belle}

The morning that we were heading out of town, it SNOWED!!! Before we headed back to Birmingham, we had to do a little playing. Lilah is wearing a snowsuit that was mine when I was a baby. It was a little snug on her but she looked oh-so-precious in it!

December 27, 2011: Lilah's first encounter with snow.

All bundled up!

Trying to catch the flakes

Papa and Baby

We hope everyone had a very, Merry Christmas!!