Miss Maija

Maija had her two month check up today!!!

She now weighs 13 lbs. 11 oz.

And is 23 1/2 in. long

Big girl!

Time flies!

Wow! It's been almost a month since our last post! Whoops!! Needless to say, things have been a tad busy around here! We haven't really done anything super spectacular, just everyday life with a 7 year old, 4 year old, and 2 month old... Yes, we stay busy! Here are a couple highlights to update what's been happening around here!

Caleb, Brady and Daddy have enjoyed a couple trips to the sledding hill in Fargo... Yes there is only ONE hill in Fargo.

We finally had carpet installed downstairs... It makes quite a difference in warmth, noise, and general appeal.

Maija will have her two month check up tomorrow! She keeps on eating and growing! She has the greatest smiles, which have yet to be truly captured by the camera...close, but not quite!

Uncle Matt is moving to Moorhead! He was offered a new and better position at the Menards here, and we're all pretty excited that he'll be so close!

Uncle David will soon be leaving for his second deployment to Afghanistan... Please keep him in your thoughts and prayers.

It's still winter... Snow. Cold. Icy roads. Windchills. Enough said.

Christmas

We had a very nice, and quiet Christmas at home this year... We weren't quite ready to take Maija traveling in all the loveliness that is winter, but we will hopefully venture out more when she gets a little bigger and the weather is a little more agreeable! This weekend, we are lucky enough to have Grandma and Grandpa Ojanen as well as Auntie Sarah, Uncle Brett and the kids coming out here to Moorhead to visit and celebrate a late Christmas with us! Should be fun!

Here are some pictures from the Saari Christmas!:

Big (big) Brothers

The Saari boys have informed us that Caleb is the "big big brother", Brady is the "big brother", and Maija is Caleb's "little, little sister", and Brady's "little sister"... It's an interesting way to look at it!

Random pictures...

Here is our beautiful tree! Merry Christmas!!

Happy Birthday, Daddy!

Big brother Brady!

Brady taking a snooze underneath the couch cushions

Maija loves being in her tub...

Yep. It's winter...

Well, winter arrived with a bang this year. Granted, we've actually had winter-like temps and dabs of snow here and there for the past month or so...however this past weekend, we like MANY others here in the upper Midwest were pounded by BLIZZARD conditions consisting of temps well below the freezing mark, 50 mph wind gusts with a windchill of -40 which blew around the 10 inches of snow that fell in our area into big drifts and piles... Yep. It's winter. It stinks.

This was the lovely scene viewed from our living room window:

As you can (or can't) see...this is our front yard... You can almost see our neighbor's house directly across the street. Yep. It's winter.

This is the view from the deck:

And this is the spectacular snow drift that graced itself on our front steps:

Maija meets Micah!

The Gunderson crew came visiting to Moorhead the day after Thanksgiving...(yes, I realize that was a while ago already) and we all got to meet the newest Gunderson, Micah James. Micah is quite a sight to behold! At two months old, he is a whopper of a boy! He's got the biggest cheeks I've ever seen, which are oh so kissable, and is solid from head to toe! We couldn't resist taking a picture of little miss peanut girl (who is only 8 days old in this picture) with her baby cousin...