Emily's Haircut

Emily hasn't had a trim since she was about 9 months old. I don't know why but she was definitely scared the minute she saw the chair. The pictures need no captions about how it went! Penny and I had to take turns holding her still enough so that the lady could cut it.

Rachel's Quilts

Rachel had a lot of clothing that I couldn't pass on to Emily or Callie so we decided to have quilts made with them. We were able to have a quilt made for each of her aunts and grandmas. We also are getting quilts for our girls but they're not ready yet. These are the quilts that were made for each of them. They all picked which picture they wanted on them. They turned out great thanks so much to Mary Cambiano for making them.

More Christmas Pics

Christmas day was spent at our house with Michael's family. As you can see in the pics, we had Michael on the TV skyping with us. Emily showed him every single present she opened. He really enjoyed being part of it.

Santa thought Em needed a car to drive around

Talking to Michael on the TV

Presents from Santa

Krug Christmas

We celebrated Christmas Eve at my parents' house. It gets pretty chaotic with the kids. I'm starting to understand why we always had to spend Christmas in the basement with our cousins growing up- it gets very noisy and messy with all the kids! The kids got way too many presents but had fun playing with each other's toys. Mom even got them all stockings and filled them up. Next year I think we're going to have to draw names because each of the kids got around 10 presents! Michael was able to join us for each of the Christmas get-togethers via skype. We mailed his presents to him so he opened them with us and got to watch Em open hers. She loved showing him everything she got.

Showing daddy her present

Hanging in their Christmas PJs. Emily loves her "froty"

pjs and wants to wear them every night!

Bryson was confused that it wasn't his dad on the laptop!

Uncle Shane likes to hold the new baby at Christmas- it's become a tradition!

These 2 like to fight over Allie. Emily always tells Callie that it's her baby.

The sheep that didn't make it to the manger

This year mom thought it would be fun for the kids to be in the Christmas pageant at church. They were all going to be sheep. They did pretty good in practice. Emily thought it was fun crawling down the aisle with a bell on. But on Christmas she didn't think it was so much fun in front of all those people! She didn't make it down the aisle but her cousins did. I'm told she made quite a production with her loud dramatic cry and had to miss most of church.

Nate's always trying to keep the kids in-line.

Poor Nate, doesn't look like it's going well!

Baby Allison

The past week and a half have been crazy to say the least! As if it wasn't going to be crazy enough without Michael being here, we celebrated Christmas when Allison was 2 days old. Allison has been a wonderful and much needed addition to the family. This Christmas was going to be a hard one, and it was, but having Allison was a great distraction. She is an easy baby! I have to brag about her sleeping 5-7 hrs. at night. That's better than both her sisters and they were easy babies as well. She is content all day long and lets me know when she's hungry!



Emily has taken to her amazingly well. She loves being a big sister. She tells everyone "dats my baby" and she's always asking me to "hold me" which means hold the baby. My only fear is that she's going to be too helpful and try to feed her something or pick her up. It's been bittersweet making the transition from one to two again. Rachel was a very different kind of big sister. It took her months to warm up to Emily or be helpful at all. She didn't warm to Emily until she could play with her. She made me feel horrible for having another child. But Emily loves to be around the baby and is constantly checking on her and helping me by fetching things. I am so thankful that Em loves her so much since Michael isn't here to distract her. Having two again really reminds me of Rachel and it's been an adjustment. Allison also looks very much like Rachel did when she was born. I can't even tell the pics apart when I put them up to each other!

We're very thankful for Allison and we're looking forward to a much better year. We have lots to look forward to with both girls! Happy New Year!

More Allison Pics

Meeting More Family

Allison had lots of visitors while we were in the hospital and we were only there 24 hrs! She got to meet everyone in the immediate family on both sides.

Michael's dad (papa)

Michael's grandma (Mimi)

Michael's mom (GJ)


Cousin Callie snuck into the hospital room. She loves holding "baby awison"!

Emily meeting Allison

Once Allison was cleaned up, MIchael's parents and grandmother brought Emily to meet her new sister. She was uncertain at first but she warmed right up to her. She even wanted to hold her. It went well until Allison started crying. After that Em watched from more of a distance.

When Allison started crying so did Emily!

Em was a little confused when she walked in the room. Callie had to explain to her that there was a new baby!

Meet Allison Jane