Christmas Day

We celebrated Christmas Day and Auntie Karen & Uncle Dave's. They always put on a great Christmas! We had a delecious dinner of beef tenderloin and a really yummy salad. I promise to get the recepie for it soon and share!

Papa & Lucy opening some goodies Dad, Papa & Uncle Dave
Tim, Ron & John

When a girl has this...she has EVERYTHING

Father & Daughter

Ron & Sue

Cousins!

Auntie Karen making that yummy salad

We're hot

Ron gets some cystal from Sue

Checking the tenderloin...

Yes it takes 5 people...

They're Kurek's after all!

Everyone ready to eat

Beautiful Christmas Tree

Bro & Sis

The Pink Squirel gets a pink shirt

A crystal cross ornanment from Sue for our tree

Sue gets a pedicure tub

"I never got mad at anyone who bought

me a beef stick." -Dad

Auntie Karen gets her Jessica McClintock

Merry Christmas...and Nine Weeks!

I can't believe I'm 9 weeks already. This picture shows a lil' baby bump and alot of holiday bloat! I know I've got 31 more weeks to go (!) but each new week is such a blessing to us. Our next ultrasound isn't for another two weeks. We're so excited to see how much our little bambino has grown by then.

Happy Birthday to our dear Baby Jesus. His mommy Mary went through more than probably any other mommy on Earth to bring Him into this world and for that we are so grateful!

Merry Christmas everyone. We love you all.

Christmas Eve at Casa de Hernandez

Christmas Eve was wonderful. We had Mom's side of the family over. Instead of a sit-down dinner, we had appitizers. Everyone brought a little something and it worked out perfectly. Here's many pics of our great afternoon together. We're so blessed to have eachother. It's great when we can all be together, especially when two of our familys are out-of-town!

Ronnie & Silvia arrive

The Zics in from Nashville

Dad & Sue stopped by for a bit to say "hi"

Uncle Jerrry & Auntie Joan

Kissing Cousins--Zoey & Sidney

Little Jer, Jamie & John

Johnny & Brittany

Ronnie & Papa

The Wallocks in from Minnesota

These next 3 are of Sidney trying to sneek chocolate...Priceless!

Mom, Zoey & Sidney

These next pictures are of us sharing "opatki"--a Polish tradition started in our family by our dear Nana. Even though she isn't with us this year, she's with us in spirit through this tradition. The "opatki" is similar to communion hosts and we each say a little something, wishing eachother good health and happiness for the coming year--and counting our blessings for the past. (We go from oldest--or wisest!--to youngest.)

Nick gets a pinball machine

Santa's little helper...Sidney passing out presents

Dr. John gets a sweet digital picture frame for his office

More presents...

The girls get their ND cheerleading uniforms!

Oh boy are these pom-poms fun!

Yikes! says Zoey

Ronnie & Silvia

The big happy family

Oh nice! A man can never have too much Yankee gear.

26 baby! 26.

Silvia's ready for some snowboarding

The happy hostess and host--we make a good team!

Silvia, Kristen & Brittany

Too much chocolate will do that to you

Merry Christmas Eve!

We'll, we're all ready for Kristen's Mom's side of the family to come over this afternoon. Some how, we're going to manage to entertain 25 people in our condo. The weather up here is frightful...no snow, unfortunately, but my, my there's a nip in the air! It went from 50 degrees on Saturday to 16 degrees yesterday and today. Typical Chicago weather. Mom and Sam gave me an amazing Nikon D40 SLR camera for Christmas Saturday night and it's simply AMAZING. Here's one of my first pictures. It's our very first Christmas tree. Enjoy and God Bless you and yours!