Happy Birthday Great Grandma in the Mountains!

At the end of January the entire McMullen side of the family all planned a trip up to Deep Creek for Grandma's birthday. Maya has taken it upon herself to name her Great Grandma in the mountains, and every time she speaks of her - that is the full title she uses. Close to Grandma's birthday is also our cousin Jessie's birthday, so we made sure we celebrated both while we were there. We all had such a good time, even though we had to come up with creative sleeping arrangements since we had a total of 18 people in a 3 bedroom house. But it was really nice to be surrounded by family.

And we also had LOTS of snow to play in.

We went sledding & wrestled in the snow.

We had SO much fun!

Somehow we managed to slow down for a minute to get a family photo.

Not only did we play out in the snow, we had fun inside too.

Maya & Jessie goofing around

Playing Memory with her cousins.

Happy 72nd birthday to Grandma & 20th birthday to Jessie!

Here is the whole group. Great Grandma in the mountains has a nice large family that was more than happy to make the trip to celebrate with her.

Daddy & Maya

Mommy & Maya

Maya's 1st Haircut

Okay, so I kept saying for a couple months, after the wedding, Maya is getting her hair cut. It was getting so long that she could just about sit on it, and because she didn't want me to take care of it the way it really should be, it was time to really trim it and make it easier to deal with. So those baby curls at the very bottom are now gone, but I made sure to keep a little sample.

Now, I knew Maya was exactly what you would call excited to get her hair cut, in fact as soon as we pulled into the parking lot she started to panic a little. But she has met Kristen (my hair stylist) many times before, so I was hoping that would make her feel a little better about the process. So into the salon we went, if she was going to get her hair cut she was going to get the whole treatment along with it. She got her hair cut, washed, dried and styled.

The first snips of hair.

Daddy came with us. He was trying to make Maya laugh.

That was a lot of hair & knots that we no longer have to worry about!

By now, she was starting to like the whole salon treatment.

All finished! It wasn't so bad after all and Maya was a trooper, plus I think she likes the shorter hair & Mommy isn't going crazy trying to take care of it. It's much easier on both of us! :)

2010 has come and gone..

Unfortunately, I'm just getting around to updating the blog. As you all know we had a very busy fall and it just continues to carry over into the first few months of this year. Also it didn't help that I lost my camera while honeymooning and wasn't able to take any pictures until Donny bought me (somewhat) of a replacement. It's not nearly as nice as the one I had just bought myself in October, but at least I have something to take pictures with.

So here we are on Christmas, it was hard to get a family picture this year since Maya has a mind of her own and decided she did not want to cooperate.

However it was yet another good Christmas and we got to enjoy seeing our family & celebrating. Maya was really excited about her very own acoustic guitar & microphone with amp. She gave free concerts pretty much all night. I posted a video so you can see what I mean.

Hope that you all had and happy & healthy Christmas and holiday season.