Grandparents come to visit

Claire has a visit from my mom and dad - AKA: "Atti" and "PeePaw" (we're hoping that name changes! ;-))
Just some fun pictures of my girl & her grandparents!

Gina & Noah visit us!!

Gina and Noah Daniel stopped by to see Claire and me today - what a wonderful time in my life! I am so excited for Gina and Tad - Noah is so precious!! I just love him...
Gina and I have been best friends for 16 + years, time flies!! We've been through so much together and I'm so happy to experience this next big event in our lives!! :) YEAH!!

Claire **SPARKLES**

Claire is her "Atti's" *Sparkle* girl..... mom called Claire (baby girl Lively) "Sparkle" until we knew what her name was going to be -- so when I found this shirt at Christmas time I knew it had to be hers!

3 Wise Men Christmas

Jacob's mother, Paula (AKA: Mimi) and his two older brothers (Lee and Bobby) and our sister in laws, Stephanie and Amy all came to visit for Claire's first Christmas :)
Lee and Stephanie came from San Antonio with their 5 year old son, Jaxon to share the holiday fun, Bobby and Amy came with their son, Brady, 10 months -- A good time was had by all!!

Crazy for Claire

Crazy girl -- babbling away, and having fun playing at home before bed time :)
My Claire....silly fun....

Christmas for Claire :)

Just a fun video of our baby girl riding her new rocking horse with her grandfather and enjoying Christmas 08....small clip of our day....

Christmas Eve Candlelight church service

Jacob, mom, and I took Claire to her first church service at The Woodlands United Methodist Church for Christmas Eve candlelight service. She was so good and did not make a sound. She loved the music and the service - I have gone to Christmas Eve candlelight service since I was born as well and I hope to continue this tradition with Claire

Happy Holidays

Wishing you all CHEER in the NEW YEAR

MERRY CHRISTMAS ~ WISHING YOU A LIVELY HOLIDAY SEASON :)

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2008
We are so excited to celebrate Claire's first Christmas and finally be a LIVELY little family!!
Hope you all have a wonderful holiday filled with happiness and joy! May God Bless your family...

Old friends, Good times!

Susan Shacklett Dombrowski and Caroline Grace (8 mo), Jayme Jo Lynch, Allison Holloway Short and Emma Rose (20 mo), Lindsay Bozman Lively and Claire Catherine (7 mo), Melanie Perrine Allen and Katelyn (TBA), Angela Michelle Godfrey and Amelie (2 1/2 yr), Aimee Dewey Witherspoon and Abigail (4 mo) -- We have all been friends since about 5 years old or younger....From Brownies, dance class, parties, birthdays, school plays...etc... we have all been friends for 20+ years!! Love reconnecting with old friends...what fun!!

Snowbunny girl...just some fun new pictures

Our Lively little one ... in her winter wear - Just some fun pictures of the fuzzy girl in pink!

Trying to move...

working on crawling....
Claire is pushing up, scooting, rolling, inching, and is up on her knees and hands, but hasn't taken that first knudge forward just yet - Crawling is close!

A day with GrandBob, Mammaw Allison, Uncle Clint, Aunt Eloise and Aunt Susan! The Liveliest Crew around...

We celebrated Claire's first Christmas with the Lively's early this year - we were joined by Jacob's Aunt Eloise and Aunt Susan. We had a wonderful day playing and opening gifts! Jacob recentlygot a motorcycle from his dad, a Honda 900 which is he is very excited about! Check out GrandBob and Miss Claire on the bike ready to roll --
Aunt Susan and Aunt Eloise brought Claire some cute new clothes and a music box for her collection....so sweet!

2nd annual KISD teacher party

Lori Hurst, Kristyn Holmgreen, Staci Tomczyszyn, Lindsay Lively, Kelly Walsh, Carmen Phillips, Melissa May - best friends from teaching - this is our 2nd gift exchange party and we had such a fun time :) Love these girls!!

Bonnet Baby

Bonnet Baby - I just adore this little dress given to Claire by Cherrie Watson, a lifelong friend of mom's. It's a classic dress - Just a few shots of Claire in her bonnet - 7 mo.

Claire hosts her first Christmas Party...

Baby Santas - Cyrus (3 months) and Claire (7 months) --

Claire shares a chair with her Cyrus - They are dressed in the Christmas clothes and are sooo cute together! Check out their first picture, holding hands! Cyrus is just 3 months old and weighs a little more than 10 lbs! Precious little man!

Claire and 7 month old Lily play "cups" - the girls take turns stacking and clacking the cups! Lily is a May baby too!

We had play group at our house today and here a few pictures of Claire playing with some of the other babies in our group. This has been a wonderful experience for us - we meet weekly and I love getting to know the other moms and babies! Claire is a "social butterfly" already..... Claire plays with 10 month old, Donovan....

Santa Baby

Just a few pictures of our baby girl in her Santa Suit....ready for the big day -

Claire in her cute Santa dress from "Aunt Monica" - she was sitting on "snow" in the North Pole....we like her furry booties!

Sunny Times after Santa pictures....

Some fun home pictures of our girl after visiting with Santa....
So sweet - We actually have about 75 more, but I'll leave it at this for now.....
We have 2 more Santa locations to visit so more to come.....