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Pre Pre Pre Christmas Eve Celebration
Tonight we hosted Grandpa, Grandma Valerie and her sister Great Aunt Bethel for an early Christmas celebration. It was fun to have family time with Bethel who typically works long shifts on Christmas Eve and Christmas day. They brought down dinner with them which spoiled us and makes hosting very easy!
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Christmas Card Helper
A little behind this year, but our Christmas cards should still arrive before Christmas thanks to our little helper.
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Daddy’s Home
Cooper instantly smiles as soon as Rob walks in the door after work and says his name. Cooper likes to hold his own bottle, sometimes more successfully than others 🙂
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Bringing Cheer To Great Aunt Janet
Cooper’s great aunt Janet is recovering from recent hip surgery. What better way to help someone heal than a super cuddly Cooper. Apparently Nemo, the cat, usually runs with visitors, but he was very happy to hang out when we were there. It is hard to capture a photo of all 3 of them though. …
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Adventure Buddy
Cooper was really excited to meet Dimitri, our adventure friend, crossing the world by man power (http://www.nexusexpeditions.blogspot.com/). It is always a privledge to get to catch up with him during his brief returns home between legs of his trek. He brought Cooper Snowy, the dog from Tintin, that blends in nicely with his polar bear jammies…
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Family Photo Shoot and Bellingham Fun
Referred by a PEPS friend we headed to Bellingham to have family pictures taken to celebrate Cooper’s big 6 month birthday with Meg and Aaron at http://evantidephotography.com/. We should get our pictures back in 2-3 weeks. Bellingham is the perfect destination for us, just over an hour away and a beautiful city. I get to meet…
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Professional Pics with Grandma and Grandpa
For Christmas we got my dad and Valerie a photo session for the 5 of us at Yuen Lui. My dad and Valerie picked the Christmas theme and we think the pictures turned out pretty cute. All four pictures from the shoot are posted here.
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Girls’ Night Out
Tonight I had my annual Christmas dinner and night out with longtime high school friends. Cooper and Dad had some great man time hanging out at home and practiced sitting up 🙂
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Rent-a-Nanny
This evening was my work holiday party and the first time we left Cooper with a non-family member for a night out. We used the nanny service referred through work and everything went smoothly. I had the nanny arrive an hour before I left so I could get things organized, pump and get ready while someone was…
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Winter Hat
Showing off my new winter hat made for me by my Nana