What a difference a year makes...

this is last year's Christmas picture..she has grown up so much in the last year!

Proof ......

that I could once wear a bikini !!

my sister & I with our favorite cousin Tracy

me & my mommy

on my 1st birthday

My Christmas with Gyllyan

Again this year my parents & sister came over this morning for breakfast & to open their present & my presents to Gyllyan...this year was alot more fun since she understands presents and loves to open them! I told her when she woke up that they were coming over to open presents & she couldn't wait for them to get here! She was so excited!!

Playing the egg & spoon race game

Opening her gifts ~ she was very maticulous about the tape & paper being left on the presents

Singing

Everytime I take her, I am noticing how much older she is getting week by week..recently she started singing all of the time..Wiggles, Christmas songs, and here she was singing Elmo's World to "Passy"

Baby Jesus

Gyllyan just loves anything that is very tiny, she calls them "baby", no matter what it is, food, a toy, a baby as long as it is small, she loves it! As soon as she saw my Nativity set, I knew I would't be able to keep her away from it since baby Jesus is so teeny tiny.

This Kid...

is so darn cute
I love it!
She is getting the the age
where she does what she wants
when she wants to do it!
This is the best shot I could get of her
in front of the Christmas tree!

A few more old pics of me!

Thanks to Michelle, I figured out how to make my pictures look "normal" after I scan them...wasn't I a cute little ham?!??

Looking at Christmas lights...

Ever since I was a little kid, I can remember my dad taking my sister & I out looking at lights..it is one of my favorite things to due during Christmas!! Everyone kept telling me to look at the house in Stonybrook that lights up when you set the radio station in your car to a specific channel...so we went to that house but I found another one in my travels in Holly Hill on Heather Lane that was just as nice & does the same thing.

TODAY....

Today is the day that may change my life forever!

Today is the 1st day of my layoff from work

Today I took the test to see if I get into school for Radiology

Today I am going to book a flight to Florida to see my family in January for 2 weeks

Today I am going to start room by room cleaning my apartment

Today I am going to bake more cookies

Today ~ I believe that everything happens for a reason

and

Today may be the start of something really good!

Christmas cookies

This is my favorite time of year..
love all the lights
the decorations
the smell of snow in the air
the sweet smell of baking
~ I love it all!!!

Christmas card

I just love my Christmas cards this year,

the pictures aren't the best shots

but I still think it came out really cute!!!!

Old Photos

Yesterday I bought a new copier, scanner, printer ... thought it would be a good idea since I will now be home and will have more time to scrap ~ yea, right! Still playing with it but this is a picture that I scanned ~ I was about 7 in this picture with my mom, my sisters ~ Heather & Lauren & my brother ~ Ian.

Christmas photos

Christmas photos at the mall, what a fiasco (sp) ?!?!? Gyllyan was so tired & cranky after a while I had to go take her for ice cream while they finished up the boys pics...the 2 bottom pics are the ones that Tina didn't purchase because she didn't like them but I thought they turned out cute!

This picture was taken right before she lifted her dress & told the photographer to tickler her belly (which I caught on video on my cell)

Holiday Pictures

Tonight I went with Tina to get the kids Christmas pictures taken at the mall but before I got there, she did a little photo shoot with them herself.

isn't she the "freshest" kid ya' ever did see???

Decorating for the Holidays

Today I spent the day decorating, cleaning & getting rid of things I don't use anymore...this is what I've accomplished..doesn't look like much but what you can't see is the pile of "junk" I am giving to Good Will...Michelle, you would be proud!

My Precious Moments Nativity set

My "Itty Bitty" Tree

CZESOCHOWA

Prior to going to my family Christmas party we stopped at Our Lady of CZESOCHOWA (Chen-sto-hova) Church in Doylestown so my aunt could get the Polish bread we break every year before Christmas Eve dinner & what a beautiful Polish Church. The store inside was just like a normal Catholic store but had alot of Polish items in it including candy & the employees.

Family Christmas Party 2007

Tonight was our annual Family Christmas party that we look forward to every year at my cousin Suzanne & John's house....it's always great food & fun for everyone! (my batteries died on my camera so these were all the shots I was able to get)

Everyone getting ready to play the Chinese Auction polyanna

Aunt Joann & Kylie Michelle