Day after Christmas Bowling tradition

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This was the first time Griffin has actually bowled. No pins were knocked down, but he didn't care. He loved getting another chance to hang out with his "cousins" and eat as many french fries as he could.

Christmas Day

And this was only half of the Gunderson grandchildren...

Livi the fairy princess

Griffin got a "choo choo" from Santa

And he also got Playdoh which was promptly tasted!

Christmas Eve

Best family picture we could get :)

All the Lyons women- Olivia, Megan, Camryn, Pam, Erica and baby Lyons

Griffin' sporty look...minus the bead necklace.

Can you find the little boy amidst the presents?

He literally threw himself into the unwrapping this year!

'Tis the Season...

...for naps on the couch at 9:30 AM.

Brunch with Santa

Griffin, mom, dad, grammy, grandma and uncle Evan all went to have brunch with Santa today. We missed the other half of the family who was home sick with the flu. As you can see Griffin has no trouble sitting on Santa's lap but isn't 100% sure about his scratchy beard. Afterwards we went to the Duke Energy train display, which he loved even more than he did last year when we took him :)

Brownie Baking Mishap

Tumbling Class

Popping all the bubbles.

Hanging on the bars.

Practicing the balance beam.

Doing sommersaults.


Griffin started his tumbling class last week at the Cincinnati Sports Club. By far his favorite part is the fact that his friend Maya (My, as he calls her) is in the class with him.

Proud Laugh

Griffin has many different kinds of laughs but I think this one is his proud laugh, for when he does something we should praise him for.

Little Helper

Griffin loves to help do dishes (he even says "dishes" now). He will stand and rinse dishes for an hour if you let him. This usually results in an outfit change but well worth the "extra help". He looks like he is getting in trouble in these pictures by the look on his face, but he's not! In other news, Scott is out of town this week in Knoxville and we miss him like crazy. I am about to enter my third trimester of pregnancy which is CRAZY. This one has really flown by. We still have not found our ideal house but remain hopeful :) Happy Holidays!

One Year Later

Here is Griffin with Snowmen at the zoo two years in a row. So neat to see the changes :)

Festival of Lights 2009

...and somehow we didn't lose any of our fingers and toes to frostbite :) JK, we had a ton of fun with Grammy and Grampy this year at the Festival of Lights.

Ring-Around-the-Rosie

Griffin loves to play Ring-Around-the-Rosie but it makes his mom, aunt and grandma very sick (none of us do well with circles) so we taught him how to do it himself. I promise this is the only game we make him play by himself, and as you can see he loves being the center of attention.

Still Look a lot alike!

Megan and I used to joke that our children (only 4 months apart) looked a lot alike as babies. Even though they are a little older there are still a lot of similarities :)