Merry Christmas

So for this post, I have decided to add a bunch of pictures from our holiday celebrations over the past few weeks. Merry Christmas to all!

Santa brought me a treadmill for Christmas... I must have been a VERY good girl!

Rachel in one of the two fairy princess dress-up outfits that Santa brought her.

Rachel, Jake, and Mom hanging out... Rachel says thumbs up for Santa!

Jake is trying to figure out how this new toy works.

Rachel was very excited when she came downstairs to see all the presents Santa left.

On Christmas Eve, it was finally a little bit warmer so the whole family went outside to play in the snow. Here is Rachel standing next to the big snowman we built.

Jake was happy to be outside!

Rachel opening her presents the Saturday before Xmas at Mimi and Papa's house.

Jake trying to eat his candy cane while Dad is looking the other way.

Mike's brother and sisters with our family before the Iwaniw family Xmas on Dec 13th.

Brother and Sister Photos

Rachel wanted to sit with Jake in the rocking chair yesterday and she told me to go get the camera to take some pictures. Of course, I was more than happy to do this. So here are my two babies getting so much bigger everyday.

Mike loves calling Jake "gummy bear" because of his huge smile where all he shows are his gums (even though he does have two teeth in there). Rach, well she is practicing her different smiles and shows us a new one every time!

Trip to Santa House

Here are some pictures from our trip to the Midland Santa house this past weekend. Rachel and Jake both did great sitting on Santa's lap. They loved it.

Regina's 10 yr High School Reunion

Some of you had talked to me about how I was unsure of going to my 10 year high school reunion this past weekend. Well, Mike and I ended up going and although it was small, we had a great time. Talk about a flashback! We had great food, drinks, and conversation with the good group of people that was there; and Mike, what a champ, you would have thought he was one of our class - they all loved him. Here are some pictures below:

George Pappas and I; a good friend who was also my date to Senior year Homecoming dance.

Melissa Salloum and Natalee (Musik) Topolewski (spelled completely wrong). Melissa was UM ChemE with Mike and I and interesting fact of the night is that our company is buying her company... we may work together again!!! :-)

Kara Siak and I - I have known this girl since 6th grade!!


Mini Scorekeepers reunion with Mike and Adam Hunt... both were bouncers at the bar in Ann Arbor.

Our table companions (Mike is taking photo)...

Midland Santa Parade

These are pictures from the Midland Santa Parade the weekend before Thanksgiving. It was a chilly day but sunny so my mom and I took the kids while Mike and my Dad were working on the ceiling in the basement.

Rachel had a blast and got more candy than she even got on Halloween! Jake loved it too and was squealing at everyone that walked by. I was impressed by the amount of people, floats, and animals in the parade; it was so neat!