Baby's First Christmas!

While Raegan is napping I am trying to play catch up with the blog. Hopefully I get better at this as well as her baby book! So now that it is almost a month past Christmas I will try and get this published.

Raegan and I got back home from Florida Tuesday afternoon! Ryan took the afternoon off of work so he was home and waiting for us. That evening we did our family Christmas together. I got Ryan a Northface jacket that he has been wanting for like 2 years. He was so surprised!! Raegan have him a Notre Dame shirt. I got new running shoes, workout pants, socks, and a fleece jacket (all Under Armour!)

Santa was so good to Raegan! She must have been very good this year! Santa brought her lots of toys and clothes! She is finally wearing size 3-6 months!

On Christmas Eve I took Raegan to Santa’s workshop and she got to sit on Santa’s lap! She loved him! Santa told her that he wishes he had more kids like her and it would make his job a lot easier. Ryan worked a half day on Xmas Eve, so after he got home we left for Evansville. Christmas morning we woke up and had Christmas with Grandma Miller, Aunt Tricia and Uncle Jon. Raegan got her first Cabbage Patch doll, as well as more toys and games. Christmas afternoon we went to Newburgh where my other grandmother lives, I am so lucky that my grandparents live 5 minutes away from each other! When we got there we had Christmas with my dad, and Aunt Tricia and Uncle Jon. Once again more toys for Raegan! Her favorite toy is Sophie the Giraffe! She loves chewing on her and making her squeak which drives the dogs crazy! We had a wonderful Christmas dinner with the whole Cooksey side of the family. And then that evening yet again there were more presents to be opened!!! All of the great-grandkids (Nadia, Berke, and Raegan) got toys while the adults did a white elephant!!! Raegan is going to have 2 more cousins on the Cooksey side later this year. Aven Saige Reising will be here in March and then Baby Eisenhauer will make its appearance in July… just before Raegan’s first birthday! Christmas will be even more fun next year with all the little babies!!!

For New Years we just stayed at home in Fishers. Oh how times have changed! Raegan went to bed around 7:30 and Ryan and I stayed up and partied! HA… yeah right! We were in bed by 11:30 and could barely keep our eyes open to see the ball drop at midnight! 12:05 we were sound asleep!! HAPPY 2010!!!

New years day we went to Ft. Wayne to have Christmas with the Hahaj clan! Ryan and I were able to get out and have a wonderful, and much needed and overdue date night at Casa’s! My favorite restaurant in Ft. Wayne!

The Holidays were crazy busy with the trip to Florida, Ryan’s dad’s surgery and all the traveling all over the state to be with family but it was well worth it and we are very thankful to have such a great family. Thank you to our family for making Raegan’s first Christmas very memorable!

Raegan's first trip to Florida/ Sarahs beach wedding

On December 18, my dad, sister, Raegan and I packed up the Yukon and drove 17 hours straight to Anna Maria Island, Florida for Sarah Smiths wedding. Ryan was unable to go because his father was in the hospital and had to have bypass surgery for an abdominal aortic aneurism that doctors just found a few days prior. We are very fortunate that the doctors discovered the aneurism and my wonderful father-in-law is recovering comfortably at home. He was lucky and got to leave the hospital on December 23, just in time for Christmas and on he and my mother –in-laws wedding anniversary. What a wonderful gift! My sister’s husband Jon was unable to make the trip to Florida because he works as a residence manager at IU and had to close down the dorms for winter break. We left Bloomington around 6:30pm and I think Raegan was asleep in her carseat before we left the driveway! I was very nervous about how she would do in the car for that long but that is part of the reason we drove through the night so she would just sleep the whole time and we wouldn’t have to stop 18 times. We stopped at a gas station around midnight to get gas and feed Raegan which was an interesting stop since there was a van full of inmates at the pump next to us. Let’s just say after we got gas we drove across the street to a different station so that I could feed Raegan. The next few hours were smooth sailing until my sister started driving! AHHHH!!!!!! It’s around 2am and we are driving through Atlanta and she starts feeling sick. I was feeling sick too from her driving through ATL! (kidding Tricia!) So once she was done puking on the side of the interstate in downtown Atlanta, I took over driving for a few hours. We got to the beach just before noon on Saturday. We went to one of the best burger joints known to man which is a total dive hole in the wall called Duffy’s. After we got done eating and checked into our hotel Raegan and I went swimming!!! It was her first time and she loved it. The water was around 86 degrees but the air was a little on the chilly side since it was a windy day. Sunday we just hung out around the hotel and then Sarah and I went to go get mani’s and pedi’s that afternoon before the rehearsal. The rehearsal on the beach was quick and to the point! Then we had a wonderful dinner at an Italian restaurant.

Monday, December 21 was the big day for Sarah and Mark! The wedding was beautiful! It was a little on the chilly side for a beach wedding but there was the most beautiful sunset that evening. Raegan looked so cute in her little pink and white dress that Sarah got her. After the sun had set Raegan ended up wearing her snowsuit at the reception!! Once the party was over we changed clothes and packed up the car and headed for home!!!

Once again Raegan was a perfect angel on the way home. She slept most of the car ride and when she was awake she was just looking out the window watching the world go by and playing with her toys!! It was a great wedding and a short but sweet trip to Florida but we were glad to be home and enjoy our first Christmas with our new baby!!!

5 months old!!!

I knew I would be terrible at this blogging stuff. But it’s not all entirely my fault. Shortly before Christmas my laptop computer cord caught on fire so once the battery died it couldn’t charge anymore! And no I didn’t just say that it caught on fire because it was 8 years old and I wanted a new one like I did with my Jeep in high school! So I didn’t have a computer for a couple of weeks, but my wonderful husband bought me a new fancy HP laptop right after Christmas during all the fabulous sales! I am so spoiled!

I will try and get you all caught up on Raegan’s first trip to Florida for Sarah’s wedding and her first Christmas! But first here are Bug’s official 5 month pictures!!!!