Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas to Everyone! We are having a great time being in Kansas City with our family and getting all kinds of wonderful gifts.

Peyton with Santa and I am sure that she asked "All I want for Christmas is a Tooth!!" Because on Monday Peyton got her first tooth!

The Yoder family tree with all our gifts

Peyton on Christmas Eve!

Audrey and Peyton

Peyton and Mom on Christmas Eve

Peyton getting into the presents on Christmas morning

Our Christmas present mixed in with all the rest of the gifts

Peyton and Dad playing with her Minnie Mouse from her stocking

Peyton very excited about her gift from Santa

What a face!

Peyton and Daddy

Peyton and Mommy Christmas morning

Really she is excited about all her gifts!

Last weekend in Kansas City

Last weekend Peyton and I went to Kansas City to spend some time with my family since we needed to pick Brandon up at the airport on Sunday night. It turned out to be a great weekend and we packed it full of lots of activities. On Saturday morning we took all the little kids to have their Christmas pictures taken in their matching outfits. All of the Mom's along with Grandma went and we ended up getting some wonderful pictures of all of us together. The kiddos did a great job and behaved very well for the whole 2 hours that we were there. Later on Saturday night we made our traditional Christmas Cookies at my parents. Then on Sunday we went over to my Grandparents for their Christmas Open House for lunch and Peyton had the chance to meet Santa for the first time. After the lunch we had a small celebration with the rest of the family for my birthday. It was a great weekend and I was happy that Peyton and I were able to be apart of it with everyone.

Dad, Michael, Jon and Lily making Christmas cookies

Cutting out the cookies to makeElsa and Stacy looking very excited to make Christmas cookies

Grandpa (Dad) helping Jon and Lily decorate their cookies

Michael making some fantastic Christmas cookies. He also makes the best looking ones!

Decorating Christmas Cookies

Stacy reading a Christmas book to Lily

Jon showing off how great the Christmas cookies turned out

SANTA!!!!!

I was not sure how Peyton was going to act for the first time meeting Santa, but she was fine. She just looked up at him and then turned around and gave us a smile.

Peyton with her cousin Sydney

Birthday Cake!

Blowing out the candles

Here is a fun video of Peyton playing with her Dad. At the end you can hear her baby talk that she has started doing in the past week.

Office Tree...Peyton Pictures...27

This year I decided that I was going to get a tree to decorate the office. We have had to cut out a lot of things that we normally do during the Holiday season because of budget cuts, so instead of letting it get us done this Christmas season we get to come into work everyday and see this beautiful K-State Christmas tree. Since I have taken these pictures there have been some addition such as fake purple presents under the tree and a big bow onto of the tree. I was very happy with how it turned out and we have had lots of people throughout the athletic department come down to take a look at our tree that everyone is talking about. Once I have all of the Christmas decorations up in my house I will take pictures to share. I am so excited because we have a real Christmas tree and it is our first tree ever!

This is my view everyday at work.
On Monday we were having my office Christmas party with our student workers before they all start taking their finals and head out of town. While getting Peyton ready I couldn't resist taking a picture of how cute she looked.

All dressed and ready to go...

Peyton was taking a nap yesterday and it was so cute seeing her all cuddled up with her dog blanket before I took it out of the crib.

I turned 27 yesterday!!!!

It was a great day because I took off work and we all went to Kansas City to shop and have dinner with my family at the Legends. Brandon was flying out of town so it was a good reason to take off work and to do whatever we wanted to do yesterday.

It was a great Birthday and I thanks everyone for the good wishes. Just as I think that Peyton is growing too fast I think that the years could slow done for me too!

8 Months

Peyton turned 8 months old on December 2nd and I know that I always say this...Were did the time go! It just seems like a week ago I was posting her 7 month old picture...Yikes! She is growing too fast for me.

The last month has been a lot of fun watching her change so much. She has not started to crawl yet, but she will roll to where she wants to go or get. Peyton has not started to talk, but will make the same noises and act like she is saying what we are asking her to say. It is very cute and I swear that the other morning she was telling me that she loved me back (just not in those words) We are very close to clapping and she is very aware of her hands. Yesterday morning I went in to wake her and she was already awake and was just staring at her right hand and twisting it back and forth in amazement. Peyton has started to fake cough and stick her tongue out at us. Also you will be able to tell that our little girl is not so little anymore. Since we have started her on solids she is getting quite the belly!

Everyday is something new with Peyton and I can't wait for it and feel very blessed to have such a wonderful baby that is just so sweet for me.

Peyton at 8 months old.

Baseball Family

A couple of weeks ago we had our family picture taken for the 2009 K-State Baseball Media Guide. I am very excited with how it turned out and I wanted to share with you all.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Thanksgiving this year was in Mount Ayr, IA with Grandma and Grandpa Yoder. It was a great time and it was so nice because lots of other family from Illinois were able to make the trip out. It was the largest Thanksgiving that I have ever had up there and it was so nice to see everyone since we are not going to be out in Illinois for Christmas.

Thursday started out just like every other Thanksgiving to get up and watch the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. I did my best to watch Debbie cook the turkey, but I am sure that I will have to watch her again. I helped out with what cooking I could, but Debbie had prepared most of it earlier in the week. I was able to help make the most wonderful, but not good for you cake. I'll need to steal the recipe to make it for my family! It was a great day and I missed my family, but I was glad to be able to talk with them and hear that they also had a wonderful day.

Peyton getting ready to go out with Grandpa Yoder on her first tractor ride and feed the cows Thanksgiving morning.

In the cab and ready to go...
...here we go!
Peyton with her 3rd cousins Maddy and Sammy. They are very excited and can't wait for their new little sister expected in March.

Peyton and Sammy

Peyton with cousin Andrea who is expecting her first child in May

Peyton with Cousin Darcy

Great Uncle Warren with Peyton on Thanksgiving

Grandma Yoder and Peyton having a good time together.

Wrigley all worn out on Thanksgiving and of course she found a good spot right in the middle of the floor to take a nap.

Brandon wiped out on Thanksgiving. This is pretty much what he did during the whole holiday weekend. It was either taking a nap or playing on his PS3

Four Generations Together!

Great Grandma Darnall with Peyton playing with the new toy that she got for her.

Both having a good laugh together

Peyton playing with all her toys

We woke up on Saturday morning to large snow flakes!

Don't judge us: I know that we should have a coat on Peyton, but it was for just 2 seconds that she was outside for the picture.

This is what we woke up to on Sunday morning. It was very beautiful!

Watch the video of Peyton riding off in the tractor with Grandpa Yoder