Here's to a great new year! Bring on 2016!

'Rockin New Years Eve....Eve PARTY!'

Whew!!

Yes, I have lost my mind!

The last time I had a big group of the girls' friends over............. I thought I had lost my mind!..

Well, I decided to invite MORE this time than I did last time!..........

Yes, I like to punish myself! :) :)

BUT.....OH MY goodness!!......my girls were SUPER excited for this day to finally be here!

I shouldnt have told the girls that I had invited their friends over until like 30 minutes before they all came over because since the day I told them..........they have asked EVERYDAY if that day was the day they were coming! AND...........then today, seriously....every 30 minutes they were asking me and Daddy when they were going to be here! :)

They all had so much fun!

And....so it made it all worth it to have them all over! :)

I am soooo sad that this picture is blurry!! :(    They all brought one of their most favorite Christmas gift to the 'party!' Notice the theme..........they all pretty much brought 'American Girl dolls!' I would for sure say that this age loves dolls!
Top-left to right
Libby and Chole
Carli, Raybon, Carmen, Sara Kate and Alexis
Callie, Lily, Anna and Adelee!

YES....I decided to have this many girls over at once............and give them all whistles too! :)

They ate....and ate....and then we had popcorn too!

Callie and Lily at the 'little table'....for the 'little girls' :)

OOOHHHH me......they danced....and sang.....and danced....and sang and sang more, did karaoke and made their own 'band group' and danced more and they were all sweaty and exerted a lot of energy!

They danced more! Alexis LOVES her new 'Just Dance' video game that Santa brought!...and I would say all of the other girls love it to!

They had SO much fun!

AND...look at these two! They are going to be trouble! :) Priceless!...........I had to make them get off the couch! :)

They all played ping pong....and darts....and switched and then played air hockey! They all played so well together and mixed up who played what with who! I was proud of them all! There was actually no drama the whole night! I was shocked! :)

Two peas in a pod! They both decided to leave and go upstairs with Tyler! I went up to get something and went in the playroom to find that Lily had gone to the bathroom and filled up her 'tea cups' and her 'tea pitchers' FULL of water and they were having a tea party! Water was all over the table in the playroom but it wasnt a whole lot so I let them keep some of the water to play with. They had the best time playing with dolls and watching Lady and the Tramp! :)

We lost some about 2 hours in. Anna started saying her belly hurt. She got upset when her mom came and got her because she didnt want to leave. And then Raybon got homesick and wanted to go home so her mom came and got her. Well, Carmen was spending the night with Raybon so Carmen had to go since Raybon left and then Libby had to go because she is sisters with Anna when Anna got sick......so at the very end..................... it was these four and the 'little girls' They played and played and then played more in Alexis' room until it was time to go home! I would say the 'New Years Eve....Eve party' was a success and they made a lot of sweet memories with their friends! :)
NOW....it is bed time because I am tired! :)

Wordless Wednesday!

Christmas Eve 2015

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 2015 is coming to an end. This year has flown by! We are enjoying our Christmas break and are looking forward to still having this week off! Today has been a very low key and rainy day! We have done absolutely nothing all day! I have stayed in my comfy clothes and havent even brushed my hair all day! :) We have took down some Christmas things and cleaned up some today and that has been all! Can you even believe that we have had the air conditioner on ALL Christmas break! I just cant wrap my head around that! My girls are wearing clothes like it is Spring/Summer time!
We gave Tickles a bath tonight because she wanted to come in so we have been enjoying being a family of 6 tonight! :)

Day 349
The last week before Christmas break!! We enjoyed wearing our 'Christmas gear' all week to get ready!

Day 350
LOVE seeing Alexis having fun and loving school! She was so excited to bring home her Gingerbread house!

Day 351
This girl....oh this girl! I go into her room to check on her, and see this! This makes me smile! 

I also notice THIS.....on her desk that she had just gotten finished with before she started reading. She asks me to take them and put them in her book bag...but NOT to look at them! Well....okay then, I didnt look at them! :) I just took a picture of them and LOOK......................  this girl wrote 3....yes 3 notes to 3 different boys!! Collin, Hudson and Caden........... in her class, all received a note from her asking them 'questions'. She brought them back the next day....with them circled from them.  She said Hudson...or 'Huddy' circled yes that he likes her and she said so did Caden. She said Collin circled 'no'. :) OH me, is it that time already................... to like boys?! :)

Day 352
Alexis was SUPER excited about today! Today was her Christmas party at school! SO excited!

Day 353
And today was Lily's Christmas party at her school! She was beyond excited!!

AND my SUPER highlight!!....she lost her last front top tooth! SO cute! :)

Day 354
Date night with this handsome guy! We really enjoyed the sky box tickets...and the big WIN!

Day 355
SUPER highlight! We joined First Baptist Church of Jacksonville! So excited to see what God has in store for us with our new Church!

Day 356
Kicking off our Christmas break by seeing the new Chipmunk movie...Road Chip! My girls LOVE the Chipmunks! Alexis is obsessed with them! The movie was so cute!

Day 357
Fun day for the girls...............and fun day for Daddy and I to have another date...but a 'date day!' to see a movie too! :)

Day 358
Rainy....lazy afternoon! Ahh...nice! Enjoying The Grinch!

Day 359
Christmas Eve!! I loved our Christmas Eve service at Church!

Two highlights on this night! Love seeing them excited about their gifts and about Santa coming!!

Day 360
Christmas Day!! My two Christmas cuties that I am so thankful to be their Mommy!

Day 361
Fun day Saturday with my two cuties! Doing some shopping/returning and having a fun lunch!

Day 362
My Church girl! She wanted me to take a picture of her with her doll 'that looks like me Mommy!'....with her new dress on! :)

And....another super highlight! A fun afternoon of more shopping....fun lunch....and The Factory with my family of four! Burning some energy!!

Day 363
What do we do on a lazy rainy Monday!?!?!....When we dont have to go to school or work!?!?....NOTHING!!! AHHHHH....... SOOOOO nice!!
These two are two peas in a pod! Aubie was curled up with her like this under the blanket while she watched a movie! :) :)

Christmas Day!!

Christmas has came and gone...

my goodness how quickly life flies by!....

We have finally made it out of the floods and the storms and today has been a beautiful 76 degree weathered Saturday!

YES, I said 76 degrees!

I can not get over how HOT it is at the end of December. It is crazy!

We woke up...or I should say, Lily woke us all up at 5:30ish...5:45 to SANTA! Lily and Alexis were so excited that he actually came to our house! :)

Nan and Pawpaw came by to see what all Santa brought before us heading to their house to eat breakfast and open gifts with them.

After their house, we came home and the girls played with their toys and we cleaned up before heading back out to Nannie and Hogan's house. Everyone came over and we ate and open gifts and played Dirty Santa!

We had a full and busy Christmas Day, but it was all fun and we made sooo many memories!

Santa came! Alexis is reading the note that Ella Jingle left them since she is gone now telling them bye!

 Lily dove right in opening everything...including all of her stocking goodies!

 This cracks me up! She told Santa she wanted a 'Mermaid bathing suit' and so here is our 'little Mermaid' punching Bozo the Clown! :) Daddy taught her how to do a right and left hook! :) The two main things that Lily asked for were the Mermaid bathing suit and a purple beanbag! {She already has a pink one that is small....and she refuses to sit in it and wants to sit in Alexis' purple one...so she decided to ask Santa for her own purple one!} :)

 Alexis showing off her ring that Santa brought her to Nan! The main things Alexis asked for this year was a new 'American Girl Doll' and clothes, etc for her doll....and more clothes, etc for her other dolls!... Shopkins and movies/dance games!

 Lily...the Mermaid...showing her fake nails that had Princesses on them!

 Cleaned up and ready to go to Nan and Pawpaw's for more gifts! She loaded herself down with some of her favorite toys to bring over to show everyone! :)

 My Christmas morning babies! :)

 Ready for gifts!!

 Full concentration opening gifts! :)

 Nan helping Lily open her Zoomer kitty!

 Lily was cracking me up! She was SO excited for Brandi to open her gifts from us! She literally was jumping up and down with TONS of excitement as she opened them!

 Trying to figure the cat out! She kept getting soooo frustrated because it wouldnt follow her around like she wanted it to!

 Tyler helping Pawpaw with his gift from us! Explaining all the gun stuff! :)

 I love this picture! Lily wanted a pillow and grapes....and then she laid in the floor because she wanted to watch The Christmas Story! We LOVE this movie!!

 Round two! Ready to go to Nannie's! {Notice a reoccurring theme??!!...........yep, she brought the 'fart gun'....I mean 'pooting gun' again to Nannies! She loves that annoying thing!} :) And for whatever crazy reason....she wanted to wear that feather boa too....that wasnt a Christmas gift!...

 OH these two! Before they got in trouble with this and were banned from getting on it again...the cut it on and loved to be shaken! This is the craziest thing....it 'shakes the fat off!' haha!!

 The kiddos ready for gifts!

 My Christmas girl!

 My other Christmas girl!

Ready for Dirty Santa!

 Seeing what each other got!

 My Christmas love! :)