New Year Update!

I know, I know, its been too long since I have updated this. We've been home from PA and Chicago for almost a week now. Danielle and I were gone for 3 weeks flying from here to there back to here again. Of course she did great on the plane, she's a pro at flying. It also helped that flying from PA to Chicago I was surrounded by traveling Grandmas Haha. I think I upset one when I didn't let her hold Danielle when she offered to help. Sorry, you might be a nice Gramma but you are still a stranger.

PA was really good! I was surprised, honestly! Hey, my family+get together=DRAMA. You know I love you guys, but its true. We had a dinner at my mom's house, even Denny chilled out and ate for a bit. Darla and her crew came up from Virginia. The only people missing were Aunt Liz and Steve. I got to meet my niece Jade, sweet kid, very smart. She had me and my mom laughing so hard that we were crying. Little leprechauns and invisible flying birds. You had to be there ;) If I missed seeing you while I was in town, I'm so so sorry. I had no internet and no phone until I got to Chicago.

Then off to Chicago. Danielle did so great when we had Christmas at Grandma's house, despite there being about 20 different people there. Dinner at my mom's was a different story. She didn't even have an afternoon nap really and fell asleep in Gina's arms. Too cute! The annual stair picture was chaos, as usual. Danielle sat straight up though, I will post the pic on here later. She didn't even flinch when Santa came to visit either!! That was shocking most of all. Actually she got kind of bored with him, since she already had gotten her presents Haha. Pics of that later too.

We are still adjusting to being back home and it just being Mommy and Danielle during the day. There's only me to entertain her but we're working it out. I just have to figure out her nap schedule with being back home and it'll be fine.

Brian is leaving for Iraq very soon. I can't give you a date but you'll either hear from him or me when that is. We are just getting things ready for that and once he's gone, it's just another adjustment to deal with.

Danielle's getting fussy, its nap time so I'll post pictures tonight.