Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree

Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree...

As usual, i'm so behind on posting.  My one and only new year's resolution is be be better about updating our blog.  It's not Feb. yet, so I think I'm doing alright, :).  

 This year for Christmas we decided to get a real tree for the first time (our previous fake tree was thrown away without my consent by my husband during our move to the city), but that's beside the point.  He practically begged for a fake tree, so I gave in.  My only condition was that I wanted a REALLY tall one, because our ceilings are super high (or so I thought).  

The night that Sophia and I returned from our trip to Texarkana (Dec. 11), we marched on down to the Christmas tree farm about 5 blocks away.  It was actually a random parking lot where they brought trees in to sell.  Tim insisted that he CARRY it home, which I thought was obviously insane.  So, I may or may not have picked the biggest one in the lot.  To my credit, they look smaller outside.  I scream laughed the entire walk home as Sophia and I followed!  BTW, Tim totally DRAGGED it across the street at the very end.  SEE BELOW:

I'm not sure if you can tell exactly how big it was from the pictures, but it was HUGE!  We re-lived Christmas Vacation during that outing.  It was hilarious.

   

Happy Halloween!

ZooBoo and Trick-or-Treating

Last Friday was "wear your costume to the zoo day" also known as ZooBoo.  They had a fall festival set up where kids could tick-or-treat at different booths and play games before seeing all the animals.  So fun!  Sophia and I went with my friend Sarah and her kids (Sophia's best buddies) Owen, Ian, and Alex.  I snapped tons from the Zoo and lots tonight of Sophia trick-or-treating in our neighborhood.  I think Tim had the most fun..you'll see why.

  

We had a great Halloween!  

Sophia Hayden turned 2!

Sophia had her big party at the National Aquarium in Baltimore.  Thanks to all those that came and made it so special!  A special thanks to Uncle Dave. 

Flower Girl and Bridesmaid!!!

Happy New Year

I am back to the blogging world.  My facebook will be deactivated by the end of the day, for several reasons; one being that i'm starting 2 more graduate courses Jan. 10th, and need to have as much focus as possible.  Also,  I want to keep of with this blog as sort of a diary for Sophia.  We can all look back at this blog when she is older, and she can see exactly how wild she was as a baby, and why her parents have grey hair at an early age, haha!

Tim, Sophia, and I are enjoying the New Year in Reston, VA with our wonderful friend David, or as Sophia calls him, "Uncle Dave".

Reston is an adorable little upscale community, with a very cute downtown.  I fell in love with it. 

We went to lunch downtown, and met a few friends along the way.

Sophia had a blast, but was pretty trying in the restaurant (i had to get my food to go).  But, luckily she is sleeping peacefully in Uncle Dave's room, and we get to be adults for a few minutes. lol.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!  WE LOVE YOU ALL!

Too much to type

Soo much is going on in our lives, but there is way too much to type.  So, you can gather from the pictures that we are doing great!  P.S.  Sophia will be 16 months in 5 days...hellloooo....oh. my.gosh.  I will try to type an update on the goings-on in the lives of the Rice clan, soon. 

Here we go,

Revolving around Sophia, our Angel.