Happy Holidays!

We hope everyone had a great and safe Christmas. We stayed very busy, but it was a wonderful Christmas for the Lamont family!!!

Noah made reindeer food at daycare and he sprinkled it on our grass for the reindeer to eat the night Santa came. He also left Santa some cookies and milk. When Noah woke up Christmas morning, we checked on the reindeer food, cookies and milk - they were gone! Then we headed downstairs where Noah ripped into the presents immediately. He didn't waste time! He went from one present to the other! Here is his "small" collection of gifts!

Daddy got lots of stuff for his bar this year. If you didn't know better, you'd think he was a drunk or something! I know he's looking forward to putting everything on the walls and in the cabinets. As soon as the countertops are in, that will be done!

Mommy was spoiled as usual too. My favorite gift was being able to wake up in my home with Billy and Noah in Jasper! I was so happy to be able to spend the holiday's with my family without having to travel. And I am pretty sure my mom and dad are sick of seeing me actually!!!

The growing family! Next year we will have our little baby girl in the picture somewhere too!

We are so blessed to have Noah and a baby on the way. Noah has such a great personality and is the cutest little boy I have ever seen! Okay, so maybe I'm biased, but I can't help it! His big blue eyes, dimples and his sweet voice just melt my heart everyday. I just can't get enough of him.

Katie and Lisa

Lisa at 27 weeks and Katie at 24 weeks.

Our family seems to think this is a "tradition". Hope they don't continue to expect a picture like this each year!

Talk about some "Tacky" sweaters!

And so it begins...

Christmas parties! Yes, our family get together's start this weekend already. We are hosting my Grandma Stenftenagel's Christmas at our house Saturday night. I am looking forward to seeing everyone's tacky sweaters!!! Yes, we are having a tacky sweater contest in the family. I am certain we will have some good ones!

On Sunday, we will be traveling to Louisville to have Christmas with Billy's family. We are looking forward to seeing everyone and all the kids again. It's been a while!

I will be off through the new year beginning next Wednesday. I can't wait to spend my time off with family, friends, and mostly, Noah! He'll be home with me everyday!! He'll get so spoiled and will probably have a hard time getting back in the routine of things and going back to daycare.

Christmas eve will be my Grandpa Stenftenagel's party and Christmas day will be with the Hurst family. It will be hard not having Grandma there and I will miss her, but I also know she'll be there with us, hitting my dad on the head with a spoon when he misbehaves!

And we can't wait to see Noah's reaction when opening all his gifts on Christmas morning. I'm fairly certain Santa will be spoiling the little stinker, but he has been good this year (just needs work on the whole potty training thing). He wants a car race track from Santa, so we hope Santa doesn't disappoint!

On another note, our basement is so close to being finished. The cabinets came in this week and my uncle was quick to get them installed!!! We are so excited. Plywood will have to do until our counter top is in (which will be after the new year). We still need to get our sink, garbage disposal, barstools, and microwave. So, we have plenty to do while we wait for the countertop. Billy plans to have a "stock the bar" party (or two) in the very near future!








And when that is finished, our next project will be getting the nursery in order. We only have 13 weeks left before our baby girl is here! Time sure flies. I am looking for a full size bedroom suit for Noah. Any suggestions where to look for one without spending gobs of money? He is outgrowing his little toddler bed, and we need the crib mattress back for the crib. Oh, so much to do and so little time!

Enjoying our time!

I hope this finds everyone doing well! I know the flu has been going around and some nasty colds too. We've all been hit with one thing or another, but we're all doing better now. We've been staying very busy the past few weeks. Time sure flies. I can't believe I only have 14 more weeks before our little girl is here! We have a lot to do in that time and all the holiday's are coming up too! So, I think these last few months will go by very fast.

Noah absolutely LOVES to play games. The picture below was us having fun with the Elefun game. I thought I'd catch him instead of us catching the butterflies. He enjoyed it for a minute at least! ;-)



We spent Thanksgiving in Louisville with Billy's family. It was nice to see everyone again. And we all enjoyed the wonderful food. Noah especially liked the sweet potatoes!

I tried getting a good picture of Noah with Mamaw and Papaw, but all of the pictures always had someone looking away. It's still a good picture though. I know...it's hard to keep your eyes off that cute little boy! He's so adorable and sweet. His personality is amazing and he definitely makes us all laugh!

Apparently Noah has been good enough for St. Nick to stop by and fill his stocking! He was so excited about it. He got lots of goodies.

A Lightning McQueen cup!

Shreck the Third and Shreck the Halls DVD

CANDY! His favorite out of everything!

A Lightning McQueen bowl.

A snowglobe...

And there were some other goodies too. He took every single thing out of the stocking and showed me what it was. He had so much excitement about all of it! I loved every minute of seeing his bright blue eyes!!!

While we were in Louisville over the weekend for my company year end party, Noah stayed with Mimi and Pappy. I know he had a great time. He keeps telling me all kinds of things they did. Apparently they threw a bug in the toilet, he ate applesauce with a silly brown and blue spoon, they played games, and they went to see Santa! There was a little Christmas program at the middle school and Mimi and Noah went there to see it. Noah's ticket was drawn and he won a gift of money!! He got to go up to Santa to get the envelope, shake his hand and tell him thank you! He also got to see Rudolph, Elmo, Pooh and Grover (but Noah says is Cookie Monster). He definitely had a great weekend.

I was sad to miss him seeing Santa, but I was happy to be visiting my friend Liron and her baby girl. Shylee is as beautiful as ever and is growing so fast. Liron and Gene are such great parents and I'm so happy to see their beautiful family together! I can't wait for our girls to be able to play together and become friends. They will be so close in age!!!

Billy flew out of Louisville yesterday for Boulder, CO! He will be back late Wed night. I'm so looking forward to then! I've missed him and it's just been one night so far! I mean, I did have to put a bookshelf together all by myself tonight. It was not fun! It would have been so much better to have let Billy do it for me. He would have been happy to do it also! ;-)

We hope to see all our family and friends over the holiday's. And we are both looking forward to waking up on Christmas morning in our home. We've been traveling on Christmas for the past 9 years, so this will be new to us. And it's perfect timing as Noah is more excited and understanding of Christmas and Santa. I can't wait!!! I'm so blessed and happy to be back "home" in Jasper and have my wonderful husband and adorable son with me! Thank you again Billy, for making this dream come true for me!

How Exciting!!!

My cousin Chad and his wife Katie are also expecting a baby girl! YEAH! We're all so excited. We'll have two baby girls less than a month apart in the Stenftenagel family now. First baby girl for 23 years!! We'll be seeing lots of pinks and purples now!! And even more exciting is that our boys are just 9 weeks apart! How'd that happen?!?!