Christmas 2010

Here's my attempt at blogging. We'll see how it goes since I've been off the blogging bandwagon for so long. I think my technical difficulties are now resolved and I can now upload pictures without so many problems.

So here are some pictures from the last few weeks.

Casey and Claire all bundled up to play in the snow. She loves it. She calls it "cold" and always says "more cold".

Christmas Eve family photo.

Claire opening her Christmas Eve pajamas. She really got into opening presents this year. I think it was the best of both worlds as she got really excited about opening things, but didn't have any expectations so she loved everything she got.

Her new doll and cell phone.
Jazz sweatshirt!

I got to see one of my favorite cousins after Christmas. It was so fun to see her and let her meet Claire again since she was only 4 months old the last time she saw her.

We had a great Christmas season and were glad to be able to spend time with family since the last few years we've had quite a few holidays with just the two or three of us.

Merry Christmas to All!

Merry Christmas from the Sullivans. Below is our annual family Christmas newsletter...

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To make up for the lack in blogging...

Big News! Claire is going to be a big sister. Baby #2 is due May 21st.

We couldn't be more excited for the newest addition to our family.

Care Bears and Stairs

Claire has the biggest eyes, especially when she sees something interesting.



I got her this giant Care Bear at a consignment sale and she loved it when she first saw it.
We finally took the chair off the bottom of the stairs and Claire loves her easy access to climbing.

New Shirt and Pigtails Again

I tried pigtails on Claire again as last time they came out pretty easily. We'll see how long it lasts today...

I got a new shirt a few weeks ago and Claire was very interested in it, so I let her try it on. She was a little confused by it, but she looked adorable!

Nightly Routine

We have gotten in a nightly habit of taking Claire to the park after dinner and before bed. We are lucky enough to have a little park just a few houses down from where we live. She loves it and gets so excited when we tell her to go get her shoes.




She loves to go down the slide with Daddy or by herself.
And if she ate enough dinner then she gets to have dessert when she gets home!

Wagon Ride

Last night Claire discovered the joy of a wagon ride. First she discovered how to climb in by herself. She is also discovering how to climb on chairs, couches, coffee tables, etc. I'm a little nervous about where she is going to climb from there...

Lately

Here's what we've been up to lately. Since we missed blogging for the whole month of June...

The first ones are from a photo shoot I did to try to get some good pictures of Claire for Father's Day. These are some of my favorites.





Claire's is really into "shows". She just starting to say a few words now and if the show gets turned off you will here a lot of "mo" (more) from her.
She also loves water. She loves swimming in her little pool or taking baths. She also LOVES fountains.
I went blueberry picking with some friends on my birthday and decided to make myself a blueberry pie. It was my first try at pie making and it turned out very well if I do say so myself.

4th of July in Nashville

We took a quick trip to Nashville over the 4th of July weekend. It was great fun. We were able to go to the temple which was really nice, especially because the one in Atlanta has been closed for the last year! Casey has a friend from BYU that now lives in Nashville and she was kind of enough to watch Claire for us. It was such a blessing!


It was a little windy.
Then we went to check out downtown. There was a moose convention, an international moose convention.
This is what the fireworks/concert area looked like on the 3rd of July. Very nice. There was a free concert, but we didn't stay for that.

I wanted to get a picture of Claire in her cute 4th of July dress, but of course she did not want to cooperate.

This picture pretty much sums up what the rest of church was like.

Then we went on a little walk around Vanderbilt. Very nice campus.


This is what the same park looked like on the 4th of July. Between us and the stage WAY back there was wall-to-wall people. There was no place to sit and hardly any place to stand. We ended up going home early as Claire was really struggling.

On our way back to the car we found this lovely fountain. Claire loves all forms of water. This was the highlight of the trip for Claire.

We parked near the State Capitol.

On Monday we went to a plantation, Belle Meade, in Nashville. It was very beautiful and very well restored.
This was our tour guide.
Claire didn't like the tour much. Its hard when your one and a half and you can't touch anything. She loved running around outside though!