Merry Christmas!

We've had an awesome week being off and hanging with Jack leaving no time for updating the blog - sorry for the late Christmas posts ;)

Christmas eve we went to church and then back home for a delicious dinner with the family!

Jack and Molly tearing open their presents

cousin Molly

Dana, Nana Schwab & Shelley

Jack's favorite - horsey ride on Dustin!

Christmas day - Jack doesn't really grasp the concept of Santa yet but he loved his new basketball hoop, kitchen and shopping cart that Santa left for him.
Then we were off to Aunt Dana's to see Kayla, Mr. Don, Dustin, Grandad and Grandmom. Jack received a ton of presents from Santa there too! Jack's new big wheel from Aunt Dana and Kayla.

Dustin and Don trying so hard to get their gift cards out of the trick puzzle boxes :)

Grandad and JackKayla on her new bike from Granmom and Grandad

We spent the afternoon and evening with the Mansolillo/Schwab clan at Nana and Pops' house. Jack was able to hang with his cousins Ryan, Renee and Brody. Here is Nana with all her Great Grandkids...cousin Renee...

The only time they sat down was while we turned Diego on!

Baby Brody...

Santa left more presents for Jack at Nana and Pops' house too!

Friday night we went to Granmom and Grandad's house to visit with the other side of the Williams family - Aunt Barb, James and Ronnie! Here is Jack entertaining everyone...

Granmom and Jack

Jack's favorite Aunt Dana...

Thanks to everyone who made our Christmas so special - we are so blessed to have such a great family and friends!!

Christmas at Daycare!!

Jack's daycare had a Christmas party and Santa was able to fly in early and come down the chimney to give all the kiddies their Christmas presents...

Great Weekend!

We had a great, low key, get lots of Christmas stuff done kind of weekend in the Mansolillo house. Not to mention the Ravens pulled off an awesome win over the Cowboys! Jack's friend Ella came over to watch the game. Jack loves "Baby Ella"
Here is Jack trying to kiss baby Ella....

baby Ella sitting like such a big girl in Jack's chair...Jack went to bed shortly after the Ravens started playing - here he is cheesing it up on the way to bed!
Sporting his Ravens gear on Sunday while we watched the other games!

Christmas Cookies!

Every year we go to Grandmom and Grandad's house to make tons of sugar cookies for Christmas - this year was especially fun to see Jack in action. Here's Kayla helping Jack cut the cookie dough.

Grandad teaching Jack to roll the dough nice and thin....

notice the tongue sticking out - this is what he does when he is concentrating..Jack loved eating the cookie dough...

we don't look a bit alike, do we?! :)

Ravens/Skins Game

I was fortunate enough to have tickets to see the Ravens kick the Skins' azz and sit 9 rows behind the Skins to see them do it! This year has been the first year we have not gone to almost every game (my how things change when you work full time and have a little guy around :)) Any how, even though it was FREEZING cold we had an awesome time tailgating and at the game!

The Mansolillo's - 1/2 Ravens fans & 1/2 Skins' fans

the view from our seats

Weekend Recap

(be sure to scroll all the way down to check out the Thanksgiving post)

Since we had a long holiday weekend we were able to hang out with a few of Jack's pals - Friday Aunt Katie and Ella came to visit - Ella is becoming such a big girl and had to borrow Jack's high chair to eat.

Aunt Katie put this silly terps pom pom on Jacks head and he actually posed for a picture!reading with Daddy

hangin in Rocco's crateSaturday we headed to Adamstown to see new baby Brody (cousins Mike and Mandy's newest addition) and of course to visit with Ryan who is 8 months older then Jack. They had a great time playing while Mommy had a great time holding baby Brody :)

Brody Maxwell Schwabfuture terps! Jack and RyanSaturday we also went to pick the perfect tree! hmmmm which one to pick!this one looks good!

Sunday we went down to Federal Hill to hang with Matt, Amy and Baby Abby to watch the Ravens win and celebrate Matt's birthday - Happy Birthday Matt!
Jack was a little shy at first but warmed up real quick...

Abby having fun on her tummyJack eating at the breakfast bar like a big boy!Go Ravens!!Sunday night we trimmed the tree - Jack helped daddy with the lights and put the angel on top!