Christmas 2010

Posing for our Christmas card photo.

Visiting Tpa a couple days before Christmas.

Opening presents and playing ball with Tpa.

Sophia listening to a special book from Grammy and Pop.

Opening Christmas pajamas from "DD".

Sophia loved getting her first nightgown!

Getting ready for bed.

Sophia a little distraught Christmas morning. Little did she know what waited for her...

Look what Santa brought!

All the goodies from Grammy and Pop!

Sophia was so excited to play with her kitchen.

Stockings!

With Grammy and Pop.

Heading to Christmas breakfast at DD's

DD and his girls.

Christmas breakfast.

Sophia is very enthusiastic about saying, "Cheese!"

Playing with her new mixer from DD.

Checking out DD's presents.

Posing with Grammy and her stocking.

Raph and I testing out our new Kindle.

After heading home and taking naps in the afternoon, we headed to Granny Herndon's for Christmas dinner.

All of Granny's Great-Grandchildren.

The kid's table.

The big kid's table.

Time for presents!

Granny and her four sons.

I love this picture of Granny and Sophia. This was taken way past Sophia's bedtime but she was still enjoying every minute of Christmas!

Thanksgiving highlights...

As I was sitting down to finally update the blog with Christmas pictures I realized I hadn't even put up our Thanksgiving photos yet! With all the wonderful holiday happenings in the Sydnor household it has been hard to keep up. Here are a few of the highlights of our Thanksgiving with friends and family...

We always put up our tree the weekend of Thanksgiving but this year we got an earlier start by putting up our tree the Tuesday before Thanksgiving.
Sophia helping Grammy put up one of her ornaments.

Sophia helped out with the tree for a little bit and then she retreated to her owl bag.

It was so great seeing Aunt Annie and Uncle Neil while they were home from New Jersey. We traveled to Richmond for a short but wonderful visit the day before Thanksgiving.

Sophia was a little too busy making a call to pose for the photo. :)

Annie teaching Sophia how to play a tune on the piano.

The girls! We are just missing Aunt Kate!

Later that night, Sophia getting the royal treatment with Grammy and Pop. This girl isn't loved much!

Getting ready to head to Richmond (Round 2) for Thanksgiving day lunch.

Ready to ride!

Posing with Emmie.

Sophia loved playing out in the front yard collecting sticks and acorns.

Thanksgiving evening with cousins in Barboursville. It was a busy day!

That weekend, Grammy and Pop watched Sophia so Raph and I could travel to Lynchburg for Raph's Tpa's 90th birthday party. While at G and P's Sophia enjoyed a yummy spaghetti dinner...

and, helped "DD" decorate Grammy and Pop's Christmas tree.

Sophia admiring some of Grammy's decorations.

big girl bed!

"I'm a big girl!"

Sophia's new bed!

Ready to be tucked in for her afternoon nap...

a bedtime story and...

our girl is fast asleep!

For the past few weeks we have been debating on when to move Sophia out of her crib and into a "big girl bed". Sophia sleeps so well in her crib so we were a little hesitant to disrupt her nap and nighttime routines. But, she is getting bigger and climbs like a monkey so we knew making the switch was inevitable. Today Raph had a little break between classes and athletics so we thought let's just make the switch now. Sophia "helped" us during the entire process and we talked a lot about what it meant to sleep in a big bed. When we finished she was super excited! She climbed in and asked to hear a story. We kissed her good-night and left the room. She made a few noises but stayed in her bed and when I just checked on her she was sound asleep. Let's hope tonight goes just as well...