Dirty Santa!

I am sooo excited that my 2nd Annual Dirty Santa Christmas party was a hit! :)  I have been waiting what seems like FOREVER for this day to come around again! I love love love to throw this party..and I hope to keep doing it! :)We all had a great time...and I have to say everyone left with some really nice gifts and of course full bellies!! :)
I made Shrimp Cocktail, little barbeque wienies,cucumber and tomato onion salad, Italian pasta salad, spinach dip, black bean Texas caviar, Rajin cajin dip with veggies and stuffed sweet peppers!...not to mention yummy cake!! YUM~O!
There were 25 of us and we all enjoyed catching up and swapping gifts! It was a much needed, and long awaited girl's night! :)
The food table!

LaLa and Lily!! {Yes, the girls came up to the 'big girl's' party for a little while because Alexis said that she is a "girl"...so that means she should be able to come to the "girl's party!" :)

Thanks to my friend Peg...she sent me some pictures! They are not great since they are from her phone, but I am glad she gave them to me anyways! :)

Trouble!

Sooo thankful for these girls! I am so glad that Alexis has such sweet friends to grow up with! Sarah Kate + Carli +Alexis =....TROUBLE! :)

Wordless Wednesday!

Oh Winter

It is crazy to me that it is already December! Today was a  whopping 62 degrees! I could get use to it being that because any colder is just rough! :) Tyler has officially got all of our outside lights up!......and I LOVE how it all looks!!! And not to mention some Christmas pictures he took of the girls! I LOVE Christmas time!

It is already December!

Wow, November flew by! It is already December! WOW! :) OOhhh...our Thanksgiving break is over and time to get back into the groove again come tomorrow! We have enjoyed our break, but it doesnt feel like I have had a "break" really because I have been going and going everyday! It has been sooo worth it though! We have enjoyed playing with friends, eating with family, doing our Thanksgiving festivities, Christmas shopping, Christmas decorating, Christmas present wrapping, going to the movies, Mommy and Daddy date night and Church!! We have been busy! :)
We are still trying to recuperate from last night's win!!! OOOHH today is a great day! :) We enjoyed Church followed by eating lunch with Nan and Pawpaw...and a picture or two with Santa!! I cant wait to see how they have turned out! It has been around 60 degrees today, so Daddy has completed putting out our Christmas lights outside! And...Ella Jingle {our elf} made her appearance last night!! So, get ready to see what all she is up to!! We are officially ready for Christmas!
 And...oh yes...it is now time for pictures by the Christmas trees!! :)

 OOhhhh...my Alexis! She is SO grown! She loved her outfit she wore to Church today! She told me that she looks like an "adult" because her new shoes are 'high heels'..and she wore "real" panty hose! :) {OOOHHHhhhhh me!!} :)

War Eagle War Eagle War Eagle!!!

WHOOO HOOO....WHOOT WHOOT!!!! AUBURN WON!!! AUBURN WON!! Auburn BEAT Bama!!! :)
I about had 25,000 heart attacks throughout this game! What an awesome game! Now on to be SEC champions BABY!! 34-28 Auburn! All the Bama trash talking is now over! Whoo HOO!! :)
We enjoyed watching the game here at home. Tyler put the TV outside and until it got super cold...we enjoyed watching it out on our deck and smelling the grill and enjoying the great weather! The girls were sooo excited Auburn won! Lily cracked me up cheering so loud!! What a memory!!!

Daddy firing up the grill and enjoying the game with Alexis!

My big girl and me!!

The Auburn girls! They watched the whole game and cheered and shouted with Daddy and me! :)

Success!

Both girls...in Santa's lap....and NO tears! I call that awesome and a huge SUCCESS! :)
Lily told Santa that she wants a big blue dog...and Alexis told him that she wants a rabbit! {Alexis did at least clarify that she didnt want a real one...mainly because she said she knows Santa will not bring her a real one, because he didnt bring her a real kitty cat when she asked for last year} :)

This picture makes me hopeful for Sunday when we have "real" pictures with a "real"....nice looking Santa! :)
Even though...Santa here did a great job!!

It was sooo sweet, the other day I took Alexis to the Mall..and she told Santa what Lily wanted for Christmas! :) She told him that Lily wanted a doll and a Mr. Potato head! :) Santa asked her what she wanted.....and all she said was boots! :)

Thankful!

There are SO many things that I am sooo thankful for. The list of things just doesnt end! I am soo very blessed! :) One of my favorite quotes: There is always always always something to be thankful for!! :)

We have had a great Thanksgiving! We kicked off Thanksgiving last night over at Gran's house. We had more of a non~traditional meal {which is nice because we get plenty of turkey at Nannie's!} :) We enjoyed talking and eating until it was WAY past two little girl's bedtime! We headed home and turned around and did more Thanksgiving today!
We enjoyed watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade until we headed to eat at The Classic with Nan, Brandi and Pawpaw! Alexis cracked me up because when we got out of the car she asked me if we were in New York!? {Because she said the restaurant was fancy!} ha!
We came home in time for naps and then turned around and headed to Nannie's and Hogan's house for more Thanksgiving food! It is always fun to hang out with Meg, Mal and Brit! So thankful for our families! :)

Eating at The Classic! Alexis said it is "fancy!" :)

The girls!......so thankful for them!

Snow day!

Today we enjoyed spending time with our great friends, the Grogans and the Johnsons! We headed to Gadsden to the Imagination Place. They are having a snow exhibit right now! It was really neat to play in "snow!"
It is always great to let the kids play their hearts out...while us Moms get to sit and relax...and talk! :)
All the kids...minus Laynee. {She didnt want in the picture}

The big Snowman...and Alexis. She called him Frosty! :)

Playing in the "snowballs!"

Alexis...and Alexis! :)

Going down the "snow slide!"

Lily loved the "snow machine!"

And....the most fun of all!.......Snow skating!! :)

Rudolph the red nosed...

It is looking a little bit like Christmas around here! What else is there to do while having a week off from work?!?! Well...decorate for Christmas...and get pretty much all of your Christmas shopping done, of course! :)
That is exactly what I have been doing...and I feel sooo productive! :)
Our Livingroom tree!

The mantle

The Dining room!

Lily's tree!

And of course...Alexis with her pink tree!

In the livingroom! I love this! I love to see how both girls have changed throughout the past Christmas'
I love to see all the cute Santa pictures I have!

By the TV!

And...nothing better than after a nice warm bath...but to put on our Christmas pjs and cover up with our Christmas blankets! :) And....of course Lily has her giraffe! :)

And to make it even better....curling up and watching Rudolph the red nosed reindeer!! Alexis and Lily LOVED watching this! YAYY!!...for traditions! :)

We tried

Today marked yet another Wedding shower for Misty! I have to say Alexis was beyond excited about this! That is all she talked about the whole weekend. When we got there she went right up to Misty to ask her if she could help her with opening her gifts! :)
It was great to see old friends! I am thankful for Facebook because I get to keep up with them and see their kiddos grow! But, it was nice to actually see them all face to face today though!

Our attempt at a picture of some of the kids! We tried!
{The two to the left are Candy Christopher's kiddos} then my two! :) {And to the right is Charlie, Amber England's little boy!}

Introducing.....

The STAR Student of the Week..... Miss Alexis Kayte Law! {insert applause, and cheering and clapping here!!} :)

Sooooo proud of my Student of the Week!

Lunch with my Indian!

Today I had the privilege to have lunch with one cute little Indian! I have gotten to spend alot of time with Alexis at school this week...and loved every minute of it!! :)

And the Pilgrims and Indians unite!

I am soooo thankful that I have the opportunity now to be close enough to Alexis and Lily that I get to go to their special events at their schools. Today I got the chance to help with Alexis' Thanksgiving dinner reenactment! I had to help make 130 plates loaded full of cheese, grapes, goldfish, beef jerky, pumpkin pie and popcorn! Yes, it was interesting to say the least!
It was so cute to see all the Kindergartners dressed in their Pilgrim and Indian outfits that they made all by themselves! One of their teacher's talked about the Pilgrims and Indians and how the popcorn, beef jerky, etc represented what they ate on the first Thanksgiving! I am so glad I was able to go!
All the Pilgrims and Indians!

My brave Indian! :)

And I just had to take a picture of this cutie pie! I officially dont have a baby anymore! :(

We are done!!

Today marks day 6!!!!...of NO paci for Lily!! Whooo hoo!! I am sooo proud of her! I decided Monday night that I was done with the paci, so I handed Lily her paci and told her that she needed to throw it away because she is a big girl and pacis are for babies and is yucky! Well...she threw it in the trash and said it was yucky!
 Tyler made me get it out and wash it because he didnt think it was going to really happen! {We have a whole stash anyways...}
But that night she cried a little bit for it, but after about 10 minutes...she passed out. The next morning, she opened the trash can and started looking around in the trash for her paci! I told her it was yucky and that she couldnt get it out of the trash! She said "Ewwww!!" :)....and didnt mention it again! Well, the rest of the week was has been the same way! She will say randomly that her paci is gone in the trash! She has slept great without it all week! We are finally PACI free!! :)

Sweet Lily!!

My tree climber! :)