Merry Christmas!

We had a great Christmas this year!  All three of us were healthy and we had so much fun.  This is the first year Macy has really been old enough to really understand the idea of Santa, and we even had a special visitor at our house for the first time this year, Olivia the Elf!  Here are some photos of all of our Christmas fun!

Olivia came from the North Pole on December 1st to keep an eye on Macy for Santa!  Macy loved looking for her new location each morning!

 Polega Family Christmas was our first celebration this year.  

 TJ's Grandma wanted a picture of all 4 boys for her living room.  She should have been a little more specific on what kind of photo she wanted!  :)

 Grandma and Grandpa with all 4 girls (too bad Macy blinked!)  Next Christmas there will be 6 grandchildren in the Polega family (adding ours and Brian and Marlena's due in June)!!

 The only photo of the 3 of us I managed to get this year.

 Cousin bath time!

 The week of Christmas Macy and I completed some fun Christmas projects--including making sugar cookies!

 And building a gingerbread house!

 Boppy and Dzia Dzia, Uncle Mikey and Georgia, and Uncle Randy all came over for breakfast and gifts Christmas Eve morning. 

 In her pretty Christmas dress before church!

Annual Christmas morning in front of the tree pic!

 Checking Daddy's blood pressure with her new Doc McStuffins doctor kit

The big gift from Santa---a dollhouse!!

 Our last Christmas party was Christmas afternoon at Aunt Debbie and Uncle Wade's house.  We managed to get a pretty good shot of all of the kids!

 About to tear into some gifts!

 Enjoying some pumpkin pie!!

It was an awesome Christmas!  Here's to many more just like it in our future!   

It's Beginning to Look a lot Like Christmas

We have been having fun prepping for the holidays.  It has been a hectic fall, and I think we are all looking forward to some quiet downtime that winter always brings!  Of course, our down time will be cut short this year when Peanut #2 arrives in mid-February!  

Here are some photos of what we've been up to:

We had fun visiting with the Epplers over Thanksgiving weekend.  This is the best photo I managed to get of Macy and Baby Drew.  He loved her Minnie chair!  

Christmas tree shopping!  This year we were joined by Brian, Marlena and Julia.

Ready to pick some good ones!

Chopping down our #1 pick

Decorating the tree at home!  This ornament was Macy's pick from Bronners for the year.  It has a little hummingbird "flying"  inside of it!

Hanging the first ornament

 We are 32 weeks pregnant today.  Everything has been going pretty smoothly and aside from some aches and pains and an extra bout of exhaustion, things are going well.  It is hard to believe that we will be a family of 4 in about 2 months.  We are nervous and excited all at the same time!  Yesterday, Macy said "Mumma, your belly is getting really really big because the baby is getting big in there!"  followed by "the baby is taking up all of your space!"  She's got that right!  Here are some 32 week belly pictures

Maternity Photos

When I was pregnant with Macy, I decided I didn't feel like doing maternity photos.  This time around, I was more into the idea, mostly because I thought it would be cute to have Macy in them, not just TJ and I, and I figured it would be a good opportunity to get one last family of 3 photo session in before our second little peanut arrives!  Here are some favorites from our shoot:

Happy Halloween!

Now that it's almost Thanksgiving, I figured I'd better get a Halloween post up!  We had a fun Halloween this year.  I think that Halloween is Macy's favorite holiday.  She has been talking about it for months!  In July she announced that she was going to be a pumpkin for Halloween, and she never wavered.  That is the costume she ended up wearing!  The weather for trick or treating was pretty nasty (cold and windy!)  but we did go trick or treating for the first time.  We just kind of drove to people's houses we knew rather than walking around due to the weather!  Fun was had by all!  Here are some photos:

We made our annual trip to Joe's pumpkin patch to pick out some pumpkins!

Our favorite little pumpkin

Fall Photos

I wanted to get some pictures of Macy with the pretty trees this fall, so last weekend we headed out to Dzia Dzia's farm and I got some photos:

We also took some new belly photos at 23 weeks (we are almost at 25 weeks now)!  Time is flying by and Baby P the second will be here before we know it!