Sia Nie

Sia - 

Pronounced "see-uh"

A few different meanings of the name include: "victory", "helper" and "one who brings joy"

Yes we are inspired by Sia the singer. But no, our Sia is not named after her.  I loved the name as soon as I heard it.  She sings "elastic heart" and "chandelier" and Gwinna loves dancing to all of it.  Michael was showing me her videos one day in September and I loved the modern dancing and combination of her voice and the stories she tells.  I did not even know her name yet but when he said it I immediately wanted to use it.  Another thing about Sia is that she is not about the fame, she actually hides her face and has stayed completely behind things in performances so that it is not about her.  

Again, we love and appreciate her music but our baby girl is not named after her;)

Nie - 

Now this name we did decide on because we love nienie!  It is a nick name for her blog nieniedialogues because her first name is Stephanie and her last name is Nielson.  I love this woman.  She is such a grateful, beautiful, strong, amazing human being!  I will  be more than happy when Sia follows in her footsteps of being awesome.

a little list

Finally finished our stockings! (family of 5!)

Noelle is scared of the Grinch.  Gwinna actually ripped a page out of a magazine and threw it away because it had a picture of the grinch on it and came back to reassure Noelle that he was gone. Sweet girl.

The other day Noelle saw a burger king commercial and kept pointing to the TV and saying

 "Jesus, Jesus, Jesus." Oh dear....:D

Gwinna and daddy were coming home from church and as they drove past a stinky dairy Gwinna asked "daddy did you do a fart bomb?"

We drove into town the other day and I heard Gwinna say from the back seat, "you're a fake...you smell like..." she didn't know how to finish the quote and I couldn't either because I was laughing so hard! 

Quoting Elf! My awesome girl.

Michael Joe

I love this^^^^

And I am SO with that someone.  

Lately I have had some weirdy dreams that I'm on dates with other people and I miss Michael and I never feel right and I always wonder about what he's doing and what happened with us?!!?!? 

I am always so happy when I wake up and he is the one next to me!

Thank goodness. 

big Gwinna

Trying out my new wildbird sling with my BIG baby and my BIG belly.

Oh how I love my big Gwinna girl!

our little tree

gingerbread houses...

....kind of! Mainly they wanted more "glue" for the houses. 

Love these babies.  

Note to self:  I have found that I have a lot more fun with them when I just expect things to become a huge mess than if I try to control every bit of our experiences together.  

Like this ^ a disaster , but SO much fun!

happy december

Christmas pjs

...and pictures from Grandma and Gandpa's trip to Maui!