This Is What Love Looks Like: New Years in St. Louis

Happy New Year to you and yours! We are in St. Louis this year celebrating the new year with the Heidemann's! It is so very nice to be with family....there is no better way to ring in 2010!

Jack is having a blast with his cousins! He just loves to play with them and since we do not get to see them very often, it is so nice that they are able to spend time together. Jack especially wants to thank his cousin Emily for doing such a great job including him in so many fun activities and watching him while Mommy and Daddy had stepped away for a moment or two. Emily, we wished you loved closer so you could babysit one day in the future!

We also want to send Grandma and Grandpa Heidemann a VERY BIG thank you for your wonderful hospitality, as always! You do such a great job making us feel so welcome at your home. The meals are always delicious and the company is always wonderful! Jack just adores his Grandparents!

Jack has received even MORE Christmas gifts during our New Year's trip to St. Louis. I want to write them down before I forget:

Grandma and Grandpa Heidemann

Personalized "Jack" backpack and suitcase (we especially LOVE this adorable present!!!)
Remote Control Firetruck
Thomas the Tank Engine Train

Aunt Nance, Uncle Rich, Emmie, Katie, Allie, and Will

Remote Control Car

Great Grandma Wuebbels

$15 gold dollars

Aunt Mary

Giraffe Grasping Toy

The Layton Family

Cookie Jar toy

Thank you all so much for all of the WONDERFUL Christmas presents as well as the visit! Our family and friends all mean so much to us...and we are just so blessed and fortunate to have celebrated Christmas and New Years with you!

The Heidemann cousins.....

I think I actually caught everyone looking at the camera!!! Wow! I am on an endless mission to get everyone smiling AND looking at the same camera, but for now, I will take what I can get! Looking at the same camera is a BIG step forward...HA!

Emily and Jack playing so nicely together.....thanks again Emily for including Jack in so many FUN kids activities! He had a blast!

Jack and Will with their new stick ponies. I tried all weekend to get a picture of the 2 of them standing and holding them so you could see their "Jack" and "Will" personalized scarves, but this shot was truly the best I could get. HA!