Christmas 2011

Hope everyone had a great Christmas!  It seems like it went by so fast!  It never really felt like Christmas to me this year.  The weather has been so nice.  It's almost bizarre!  It's 51 degrees today and it's January 5th!  Anyway- onward with the Christmas Pics.  These are all pics from my side of the family's Christmas (my mom, dad, sister, and Grandma came to my house on Christmas Eve).  I hardly picked up my camera this year, so my mom shared all her pictures with me.  Thanks mom:)

Ya Ya Clause brought her gifts in a santa bag this year!

Ashley and I

Me, Mom, and Ash

Me, Mom, Ash, and Mya

Randy and I

 Mya had to get in on this one, too:)

Sitting down to dinner

 The white tree in the picture below is my favorite Christmas decoration this year (and the "SNOW" letters).  I used scrapbook paper and ribbon and turned all of our old photo Christmas cards into "ornaments".  I just love how it turned out.

 Mya and Great Grandma

 Mya with probably the best Christmas gift of all time, the iPad

 Mya's special Christmas plate

 Mya with a cool gift from Ya Ya

 Randy in his new Camo from YaYa

 Jiggity Jasper snuggled in

 Sweet Stuff:)

St. Mary's Christmas Concert

Tonight we went to watch my nieces (Mya's cousins) in the St. Mary's School Christmas concert.  Grandma asked that all the girls (even the ones not in the concert yet- you have to be in kindergarten:) to wear dresses so she could get some pictures...

Looking at baby Jesus.  Mya wanted to pick up Baby Jesus and hold him so badly!  She just loves babies right now.

Jude, Ellie, Grace, and Mya.  I could not get rid of that red eye in Grace's left eye! 

I ordered Mya's Christmas outfit online this year and it hasn't arrived yet.  Luckily Jude had one Mya could borrow.  Mya was so proud that it was Jude's dress.

Sweet Stuff.

Happy Holidays Everyone!

The Miranowskis

Randy, Naomi, and Mya (4)

Going Out On the Town!

We had a cousins wedding this past Friday (11/11/11).  So Mya and I got all dolled up and had Daddy take a picture:) 

Me (the deer in headlights), aunt Nancy, and my sister in law Amy

The Bride Becky, her mom Nancy, and sister Beth

Wherever Auntie Aleshia is Mya wants to be too:)  Here's Mya with Aleshia and her cousins Ellie and Jude and Sarah.

Halloween!

Happy Halloween everybody!  After much deliberation Mya finally decided to go as Butterfly Barbie.  We went to Zoo Boo on Sunday night with James and Keisha and their family.  Lots of fun.  It was our first time there and so glad we finally went!

Mya and Nevaeh (as Cleopatra).

On Monday (Halloween) Mya decided she would wear the ladybug costume her cousin Jude had worn a couple years ago.  They had a Halloween party at preschool and then she wore it out trick-or-treating in our neighborhood that night.  Fun times:)

Fall Catch Up!

We had the Tahoe packed for one last weekend at the lake.  notice how the only seat in the back is Mya's!  Got her set up with the customary headphones, iPad, and sucker.  Perfectly peaceful for Mama.

Jasper has a little bed set up on the floor:)

A perfect day for riding 4-wheeler.

Mya's 4 wheeler was the perfect size for Papa!

Hmmm, Randy looks cute on pink:)

Just last weekend Randy's mom and dad brought us to Shakopee for the Renassaince Festival to celebrate Merrill's Birthday.  Steph had been there before and said all the little girls dress up in fairy costumes, so she brought one for each of the girls.  The picture of Mya's isn't the best, but I couldn't resist because of her sassy pose!  (I wonder if she realizes how she really looks! lol!)  Uggh, I've always hated fake kids tattoos.  Mya has smurfette on her arm.  Classy;) 

The suckers were a hit.

Grandma Steph and Ellie Belly

Jude getting ready to go on the Bunjie Tramps!

It makes my stomach do flips just looking at this picture!  Eeek! 

 Auntie Aleshia rode the elephant with Ellie and Josiah, and Mya. 

LOVE Aleshia's hair. 

 Look at those cute little kooky buns and fairy wings!

Daddy helping Mya on the pony ride.

Swinging with Grace and Jude in some giant medival looking bird swing thing.  Whatever keeps the kiddos happy!

 And...... we're done.  It was a fun time had by all!  Thank you Grandma and Grandpa Miranowski!!

2nd Day of School and Still So Happy!

Mya just LOVES school, and that is an understatement.  It's "her thing" and she pops out of bed on school days and is dressed with her shoes on before I can even get in the shower!  It also helps that her Auntie Aleshia (Randy's sister) is her preschool teacher this year.  There are also FIVE kids from Mya's daycare in her class!  Wow.  It's so crazy for me to see the little group of kids she's going to grow up with.  And they're all amazing kids, by the way.  It is going to be a very fun year;)  I can't believe that next year I'll be taking back to school pictures of a kindergartner.  Oh my.

(that's a little Rolo in her hand.  Yes, I bribed her with candy to get her to take a picture today.  She just looked so darn cute today!  I couldn't resist it!)

First Day of Preschool!

The last snapshots of summer....

I just found these photos on my camera today.  We had Jude and Ellie (our neices) over one day late this summer and broke out the good ol' slip n slide...

Cute little Ellie and big sister Jude