Beauties

Emily Ann was really amazing.  By the end of the evening she was up for short spurts moving around.  Alaina was able to lay next to her on her bed for a little snuggle time and a round of "Row Row Row your boat"!  Everytime Alaina saw a picture of her Mama she would say "I love you"! 

Emily looks stunning even post surgery.  With her permission I am posting this picture!  Believe me, there are many more very beautiful pictures of Em and Addy!

Sisters

Sweet Cheeks

Addison is a picture of health. Her chubby cheeks are so cute. I was known for my cheeks - someone told me to never get rid of my cheeks.

She's a sweet bundle of joy. I am sure her sister will love her and her parents are bursting with joy.

Hope to see you this summer.

Love,
GiGi

Mom, Dad, and Addy's First Pictures

Straight from Pete's cell phone.

Aren't these two ladies lovely?

Good thing Pete has two pinkies!

Alaina has one and Addison has the other!

Our Shooting Star is Here - Addison Jane

AJ's daddy has already
sent us her first picture!

She's 9lbs 3oz, 20.5 inches
and has beautiful blue eyes!

It's Time - 0 DAYS TO GO

We've been waiting to see this for a long time. 

Emily Ann and Pete are off to the hospital so they can meet Addison.

A New Little Star

Just think - tomorrow at this time Addison will be born. It will be a great day for the Nadeau family. I think Dad will be handing us a new little star. What a wonderful way to begin the new year.

Link to the SparkTeam

Here's the link to the family Spark Team.

http://www.sparkpeople.com/myspark/groups_individual.asp?gid=38661&gcode=XC6Y9G44UU

When you make your personal spark page, you can choose to only share information with your friends. That way you can keep things as private as you'd like. Let me know if you need help setting things up.

Love you all. Thanks!
Emily Ann

Our nativity scene

I made this nativity scene for our family when Ryan and Sara were very young. My friend Beth, from church, and I each made one together and it was so much fun. It has had a lot of love over the years. All the characters are stuffed and weighted down on the bottom so they stand up easily. Little kids, and big ones too, love to arrange and rearrange the people and animals. (They are not all in the picture.) This won a blue ribbon at the Marathon County Fair when we lived in Wausau. An interesting story about this was how we got the hay for the manger the first year. We were riding along the streets of Wausau looking at Christmas lights one evening, when the kids said that we should have real hay for Baby Jesus in his manger. I said,"Let's pray about it', and we said the prayer out loud right then and there. Ken turned the corner on our street and there in the middle of the city street was a pile of hay. I am still awed by this event. Talk about a quick and complete answer to a child's simple and expectant prayer. It was unforgetable.

New Year's Wishes

We got together today and made some New Year wishes for each other. Can you see the sparkle in Isaac and Adam's eyes? We had lots of fun together today. Happy New Year everyone!

Happy New Year!

Well, its 12:04 Jan. 1st 2010 and im excited to put my first post on the blog and to have the first blog of the new year! I want to wish everyone a blessed new year and say thank you for visiting this christmas. It is just expected for everyone to come here for the holidays and i know how busy the holidays are already, so its time to say THANK YOU! It just wouldn't seem like christmas without you!

This year christmas was a little unusual for me being so under the weather. Thanks to all my family for helping out with Faith during such a busy time! I also want to say thanks to all for the wonderful gifts and thoughtful things for Faith!

This year i have decided not to make a resolution and just take the time to do things i have wanted to do instead of just pushing it aside saying i dont have the time. Try to do it too, it might be fun. I think everyone thinks of things of oh i should do that, or wouldn't that be nice to help out doing this.
This year i do plan on.....
1. getting back on track with my healthy eating and going back to the gym but this is a life style and not a fad.
2.doing some community service of some kind maybe habitat for humanity??
3. Donate blood, why not, i have it dont need it all and it can save a life!
4.being the best mom i can be
5.keep on doing crafts throughout the year
6. Going camping with all of the family :)
7. Planting a garden
8. Enjoying everything i have in my life to the fullest!
So thats whats on the agenda for me this year!! I think it would be fun for everyone to post what they are thinking or planning on doing for the year.

I love and miss you all! It was wonderful seeing those who were here and we really did miss you pete and emily!
( i hope that i did this right and sorry if there is any spelling mistakes it is really late at night he he)

Enter This Temple

This song was the first to start up on my i-pod shuffle today at the gym. I just love the words and I LOVE the message. This is my hope for 2010.

Verse 1
We are saved in a world that's lost;
all our hope rests in Your cross.
God of strength, our weakness shows,
we need You, we need You

Chorus
Father, enter this temple,
come touch Your people
we need to be where You are.
And children, living as their Father,
washed in pure water,
we need to be like You are.

Verse
We are searching for Your presence.
We are knocking on Your door.
Let Your wings cover us with promise
for communion, for communion

Chorus
Father, enter this temple,
come touch Your people
we need to be where You are.
And children, living as their Father,
washed in pure water,
we need to be like You are.

Bridge
To be like You are, to be where You are,
And Father, come touch Your people
To be like You are, to be where You are,
And Father, come touch Your people

Written by Leeland Mooring & Jack Mooring
Performed by Leeland on the Opposite Way Album

Happy New Year!

Well, it's going to be a wonderful start to the new year for us for obvious reasons. Addison will join us Tuesday at 10am. I am so excited to finally meet her and to start introducing her to our wonderful family!

It has really hit me that the last few years have been very busy, (very blessed, but very busy) and I have let my health slip through the cracks. So...I had an idea for a family project. I was thinking that anyone who would be willing to help support me--or join themselves--could get onto Spark People and start a healthy living team.

Spark People's website lets you choose whether you'd like to do a weight loss program or a healthy living program (no weight loss tracking). You get points for logging on, tracking the amount of water you drink, tracking your exercise minutes, etc. It's really a great way to encourage friends and family for making great life changes and to lift each other up when you make bad choices (like chocolate binges...hehe) or hit a plateau.

I have to wait for 6 weeks to be cleared by my OB after surgery to exercise, but I will be starting my healthy eating changes as soon as I come home from the hospital. I'd appreciate some company, since I do better when I'm accountable to other people :) If you're interested, let me know and I will set up a team.

Happy New Year to everyone! I hope 2010 is full of good health and happy memories.

Emily Ann

Hello! I made it to the blog!

Hi everyone,
So glad I figured out how to make a post. I have been following the blog for a while and glad to be a part of it. I will post more pics soon, but I thought I'd share this funny one that reminded me all of the knitting going on in our family!
Love, Sara

The 12 Days of Christmas - Hysterical

She was all dressed up

for Christmas.

Blog Updates

Hi Everyone -

I placed a link to the Christmas Exchange List in the Right Side Bar. Keep scrolling down - you'll find it right above the link to The Outlook.

I have added the Special Days Section in the Right Side Bar as well. Would you please check it over? I know that I am missing several people's special dates such as Pete's Birthday and lots of folks' anniversaries. Would you update me in the comment section or send me an e-mail if that is easier?

Lastly, I will be updating the look of the blog for the new year. I would like your input for the tagline. Nadeau Family Blog - "_____________________" The tagline should describe something about us.

For instance:

Nadeau Family Blog - May we all be as marvelous as Marv

Nadeau Family Blog - Tales from Above and Below the Bridge

Nadeau Family Blog - We live in a climate of love (from Grandma's poem)

I think you could all come up with some pretty crafty/witty ideas.

The picture that will be featured until spring will most likely be this one:

Please make some comments and give me your best taglines!
Tracy

Christmas Portraits

Question for Tracy

Tracy, Could you somehow put the Christmas list on the blog so that it is easy to access any month of the year? I know you are some kind of a computer guru. Thanks, Carol

Memories!

Reading Debbie's post about past Christmas pizza party pictures made me wonder what pictures I had on my computer ... here are some fun pictures from Christmas '06. The boys were 8 and 6 and Faith was about 6 months.

Pete and the boys: ) I think they just got done wrestling in the middle of the pizza party!
Playing a video game

The boys loved Faith from the first time they met her! Look at those cute cheeks!

Bowling with "their uncles" as the boys called Tim and Pete

Memories ... there was a lot of love packed into that room!

Wishing we would have remembered to take a family picture this year!