Thanksgiving Day at Grandma and Grandpa Loveland's house

Ben, Chelsea and I had so much fun this thanksgiving.  We were lucky to have been able to spend it with my parents and my brother's family.  Chelsea has so much fun playing with her cousins.  Unfortunately they don't get together to play too often, but they always make the most of it when they do.  Chelsea completely skipped her afternoon nap (which is EXTREMELY RARE) so she could keep eating and playing :)

 I could not believe how much she ate.  Her initial plate included mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, green bean casserole, stuffing, turkey and ham.  she ate it all plus two extra servings of mashed potatoes and one extra serving of stuffing!  An hour later she ate three slices of the pumpkin roll that Jillian made.  She goes crazy for pumpkin bars.  We are thinking about having Jillian make her pumpkin roll and using it for Chelsea's first birthday cake that she gets to dig into!

The cousins also exchanged Christmas Presents.  When we placed Chelsea in front of her Christmas present she decided to climb on top of it instead of open it :)  I have about 100 pictures of the day so I'll try and post the best pictures.  There may be a lot to look at!

Great Grandma and Grandpa Fisher Thanksgiving weekend visit!

Ben, Chelsea and I celebrated Thanksgiving Day in Alexandria with my family.  My mom cooked up the traditional Thanksgiving Feast and my brother's family came over to celebrate with us.  We spent the night at my parents house.  On our way home on Friday we stopped in Lowry to visit Great Grandma and Grandpa Fisher.  Ben's parents got there about an hour after we did so we were fortunate enough to capture precious four generation pictures.  I will write more and post pictures from my parents house, but here are the pictures we took during our visit in Lowry.

Finally caught some steps on video!

A few weeks ago Chelsea started taking single steps on her own.  About a week ago she started taking multiple steps on her own!  It has been very difficult to catch her on video since we never knew when she'd choose to walk.  This morning she must have decided that she really wanted to work on walking because that is all she has been doing!  The video below shows her working on her walking skills :)  Be patient during the 30 second "break" she takes and just stands there, keep watching!


http://youtu.be/5hMwQuAZiqM

Snow Bunny!

We brought Chelsea outside to play in the snow today!  She's already survived a Minnesota Winter, but has not had the opportunity, until today, to discover the cold, white fluffy stuff for herself :-) 

Video of Ben taking Chelsea on a "sled ride"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5x5SDev_oc

Chelsea trying on her new boots and posing for the camera :)

Chelsea's first time in the snow!