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Atley at 3 Months

Atley Jane was 3 months old yesterday (Dec. 30)!  These last 3 months have flown by!!  We are all adjusting well to life with 3.
A few things about Atley at 3 Months:

• Eating every 3-4 hours.
• Weighs 14 lbs (according to our scale)
• Sleeps from about 10pm-7am (most nights...sometimes it's 5 or 6am, feed and back to sleep) 
• Loves to smile
• Loves attention
• Is acting like she wants to roll over
• Will giggle (sometimes) when I tickle her neck 
• Likes her space- she enjoys laying on a blanket, her play mat and sitting the swing
• She is starting to take more consistent naps (yay!)
• Loves bath time
• She is still loved by her brother and sister!  Ethan's words, "Atley is the best baby!" And I have to agree.

Happy 3 months sweet girl!

Pretty baby

Nora had to get in on the pictures :)!

And now Ethan

Happy girl in the bath

Visit From Sara

On Friday, one of my best friends from forever was also in Salem.  Sara and Jason have 11 month old twin girls, so they brought them over to hang out and to meet Atley.  I wish we could see each other more often, but it never seems like any time has passed when we do get the chance to get together!

Sara and I and 5 kids!
Mary Charlotte, Elizabeth, Nora, Atley and Ethan

Sara's mom, Diane came over too!  Elizabeth may be jealous of Atley ;)!

Sara and Nora

Christmas with Grandparents

On Christmas day, after lunch, we headed south so celebrate with our families.  We went to the Colliers first for some snacks and present opening.  It was a great time!

Stocking time

Ethan is excited about his new outfit :)

So is Nora! 

Atley and Mama

Ethan and Grandma Karen with the Lego box he really wanted!

Opening more presents

Grandma Karen and Atley

We spent Sunday afternoon out at the Colliers and before we left we took a family picture.

The Collier Family.  I'm blessed to be a part of this great family!

Friday (Dec 26th), after my brother and his family got into town, we exchanged gifts with that part of our family.

Paige, Shannon and Nora

Abby, watching Nora excitedly open her "stocking" from Grandma Terri and Pop

Happy Ethan!

Alex, Abby, Shannon and Jim

My handsome hubby!

Mama-Nora selfie

Uncle Jim and Atley

After my Uncle Bruce and family and Grandpa got into town on Saturday, we had another little gift exchange and the 1st annual Blair family ping pong tournament!!

Waiting patiently!

Socializing and enjoying family time

Abby and Alex made up the bracket and paired up the teams for our ping pong tournament.  Everyone played and everyone (as far as I know) had a great time! Check out some action shots!

Jim and Tyler (they beat Abby and I in the first round...boo!)

Nice form, Abby!

Bruce Sr and Bruce Jr

We needed more warm-up time ;).

The Champions...Mom and Jared!

Alex and Bruce Jr. 

I love these 2!  Grandpa Bob and my Dad

4 generations playing some ping pong!

On Sunday after church, we took a Blair family picture outside.  We are missing my sister, Sarah and her family, but everyone else made the photo!

L-R,: Paige, Tyler, Jim, Josiah, Shannon, Alex, Abby, David, Terri, Grandpa Bob, Jeanne R,  Bruce Sr., Jeanne B, Taylor, Bruce Jr., Shea, Ethan, Jared, Atley, Becky, Nora

Christmas Morning

We had Christmas morning at home with our family of 5.  It was so nice!  The kids woke up around 7 and we all (except Atley, she was still asleep) went out to the living room together to see what Santa had left.  Then we had Christmas breakfast.  For as long as I can remember, we had sausage twirls and sticky buns on Christmas morning, so I've carried on the tradition!

Checking out some fun stuff 

Happy kids!

Atley Jane on her first Christmas with her first baby!

Nora, modeling her new hat and dancing with Minnie

Eating our traditional Christmas breakfast!

Sausage twirls and sticky buns

Christmas Eve

I'm trying to get caught up!  We attended the Christmas eve services at our church and it was very nice.  Christmas Eve church is one of my favorite things to do during the Christmas season.  All 5 of us sat together in 'big church' and enjoyed a great service.
I took a few pictures before we headed to church.

I love these 3, so so much!!

Beautiful Nora

Handsome Ethan

Loving on each other {a rare occurrence some days ;)}

The 5 of us!  (plus the elf)

We received some indoor snowballs, so naturally we had to have a snowball fight after we changed into pjs.

Ethan in action!

A little scary...

Nora had a blast too!

And right before bed, we got things all ready for Santa and his reindeer.  Ethan had gotten some reindeer food from school, so we had to sprinkle it in the yard.  And of course, Santa needed his milk and cookies out and ready!  We also read the Christmas story from Luke and enjoyed a very nice Christmas eve as a family!

Sprinkling the reindeer food

All done...and very excited!!

My little Santas :)

Milk and cookies are out!

Finishing the night with the Christmas Story from Ethan's Bible