Merry Happy New Year 6 month old at Christmas!

So, based on the title of today's post, we'll assume that Mommy is a wee bit behind in posting. Technically, Mommy's other baby, the iMac computer, had a hard drive failure and had to go to the genius bar to get some new innards. So, you are welcome to check back later this week for some fabulous little videos of Shepard opening his gifts and enjoying the holiday festivities. I do have some Christmas pics to post today, though! We took these a few days before Christmas at home.

Click here for the flickr pics! (and let me know if that link doesn't work!)

On Dec. 27, Mommy and Shepard travelled to Newnan, GA, to visit Nana and Grandpa Giles. We had at least one wonderful day, then the evil Bah Hum(stomach)bug! attacked the grandparents. As we tried to ply them with gatorade and chicken soup, Baby and Mommy were at least still well. Sadly, we had too short a visit and headed back on Thursday the 30th. Fortunately, Shepard is a pretty good traveller and we made it back to Rock Hill just in time for Mommy and Daddy to say hello and get ready for a date night to celebrate their sixth anniversary. What a nice night we had together at Bonterra and Amelie's. Thoroughly French! Thankfully, the rest of break was pretty uneventful, as we finished out 2010 with dinner with friends and some fire pit time and Sunday church.

Surely, I am blessed beyond what I deserve. We have everything in the world we could want, a healthy baby, two jobs, working cars, a warm house, etc. So, we didn't have an idyllic first Christmas with the baby...he doesn't know the difference.  And next year, we will watch him really tear into some gift wrap and count our blessings all over again...and pray hard that the stomach thing does not return.

Happy New Year! Can't wait to see what 2011 brings to us. Probably some crawling, walking and talking...and finger foods!