Merry Christmas

From my family to yours! I hope you all have a

Very Merry Christmas!

Christmas Card 2010

Girly Grinch

This is how I found Mr. Grinch the other morning.

Isn't he cute in princess high heels!

Making Muffins

Aleigha loves being in the kitchen when I am and the

other day she wanted a snack. She ran to the pantry

and came back with a pack of muffin mix and

said "I want to make these mommy"

So we got out her little cupcake set, my brother got

it for her last year for Christmas and it is the cutest thing.

Everything is "mini".

And we baked away.

Her favorite part is filling the baking cups up.

She tells me "no Mommy I do it". Alrighty big

girl, go right ahead!

 

Less than 10 minutes later we were eating away!

Christmas Picture 2010

You may remember from last year that

picture taking is not Aleigha's thing. Well she

gave us a run for our money this year as well.

We couldn't get her to smile at all and this is

the best we could get out of her after

almost an hour of being there. Aleigha

was giving us the blues this day but I'm sure

we'll look back and laugh soon enough!

Happy Friday Y'all

I think we'll be going to see Santa sometime

this weekend. I've been prepping Aleigha for

a few weeks now but I'm not sold that she'll

willingly sit on his lap. She keeps saying she will.

 I'll let yall know how it turns out :)

I hope everyone has a fantastic weekend!

Countdown to Christmas 2010

I thought I would link up to Liz's Countdown to Christmas

over at Sugarplum Creations. These first 2 weeks of December

have flown by but yesterday was my last day of school

until January so I'm hoping things will slow down a bit

and I can soak up the rest of the holidays!

Last Thursday we made Aleigha's Hershey Advent

Calendar and she loved it. I did most of the work and

she ate most of the candy. :)

On Friday night we went to my parents house and decorated

a gingerbread house. They had fun doing this but again

it was more fun to eat the candy as evidenced in the below

picture. You can see little miss putting candy in her mouth.

The kids also helped Papaw get the train set up around

the Christmas tree.

Saturday would have to be my favorite. We loaded up

with my parents, brother & nephew

and drove 2 hours to Palastine, TX to ride

The Polar Express.

I'm hoping we can make

this a tradition every year. It was so much fun.

The adults loved it as much as the kiddos.

There wasn't anything Christmasy about Sunday but we still

had lots of fun. It was my nephews birthday party at Party Central.

There was lots of game playing, cake eating, sliding

 & go-kart riding. I can't believe my little man is 6 now.

Monday night Aleigha & I finished decorating the tree.

I had to be very patient and remember that this

moment only comes once a year because as fast

as I was putting ornaments on she was taking them

off :)

Tuesday we did a craft. One cute little

girl and some paint later and you have

the sweetest little pillow!

Last night we got in our pajamas and rode around looking

at Christmas lights. What have yall been up to? If you want

to share, hop on over to Sugarplum Creations and link up!

***on a side note, I passed my HESI exam for nursing on the

first try and am very excited to be starting 2nd level in the spring***

Holiday Cheer

Aleigha can be such a little ham. After I put

her pajamas on the other night she got

so excited because Santa was on them. She

was running around and being super silly.

And lets not mention the matching hat.

She L.O.V.E.D. it!

She was asking for it in her sleep during

the night and even wore it to daycare the

next day. I love how she relates things.

She got a plastic Santa from my parents

house but doesn't call it Santa. She refers

to it and every other Santa as a

Christmas! :)

We are headed to Texas this afternoon

to ride The Polar Express and I am

so excited. Hope everyone is having a

great weekend!

Thanksgiving Weekend

It seems like the days are just flying by and I need

it to slow down a little. I want to enjoy December

and soak up Christmas time with Aleigha but

life is so busy these days. Thanksgiving was great.

We spent time with my Moms family at my Granny's

house. I dont know why but I didn't take many pics,

didn't even get a family pic of us.

Here is Aleigha & my brother...Aleigha was being

shy with everyone as usual.

But then she started warming up and played outside

with the kids. Do you see the chocolate pie all around

her mouth?

I went shopping with my Mom, Granny and my mom's

sisters Black Friday and it was alot of fun. I was

just there to tag along because we are just about

done with Christmas shopping. There was lots

of craziness but we had a good time and didn't get home

until midnight!

On Saturday Henry put up outside decorations and

lights & Aleigha and I decorated the little tree

in her room and she loves it!

Yesterday we had a birthday party to attend at

Chuck E Cheese and Aleigha had fun playing

all the games.

I heard about "birfday cake" all day and let me

tell you she ate a plate full.

Now if I can get through the next 2 weeks I will have

a nice little break from school for a few weeks and

get to enjoy the holidays! I hope everyone has a

great week.

Christmas time is coming!!

It's kind of crazy to be talking about Christmas when we

haven't even had Thanksgiving yet. I love both holidays but

I am excited about sending out Christmas cards. I had never sent

out cards before but once Aleigha was born we started doing

them every year. I love trying to get the perfect picture of Aleigha

for our cards but that rarely happens but our families don't really

care if she's smiling or not they just like receiving a card!

I have always browsed Shutterfly but never ending up using them, I always

seem to use someone close to home but this year I am expanding out!

I even plan on using Shutterfly.com to purchase photo books and everyday prints

in the near future. And just a few months after the holiday's we'll be

celebrating a special little girls birthday and Shutterfly has a great

selection of birthday invites as well.

When I was browsing all of the Christmas cards at

Shutterfly.com I couldn't believe all of the options.

Here are a few of my favorites.

I love the simplicity of this one.

and I love all the bright colors in this one!

I love all the photo options you have on this one!

Shutterfly also has a wide variety of gift tags and address labels

that you can get especially for the holiday season. I think I

will be purchasing some Christmas inspired gift tags because

they are so cute.

Okay, so now for the best part! If you are a blogger, and you would like to receive 50 FREE {that's right, free!} cards from Shutterfly, you will want to click HERE to find out how to receive your own. What a great opportunity!

Now I'm off to try to choose a favorite design.

Disclosure: Participating bloggers are reviewing Shutterfly's line of holiday cards, choosing their favorites, and are then compensated with coupon codes for 50 free cards.



Tea Parties & Toe Nails

Aleigha is growing so fast and becoming quite

the little girly girl. She will get down in the dirt

and play cars with Tyler but she LOVES all

things girly. Two of her favorite things are

tea parties & painting finger/toenails!

Tea party with Elmo!

On this occasion Daddy was the one getting

suckered into having his toenails painted. Ha!

I love these little moments!

Trick-or-Treat

Oh my did we have fun trick-or-treating!

This was the first year that Aleigha "got it" and

let me tell you that once she realized you say

trick-or-treat you get candy in return she was

in Heaven. We went with friends & family on a

hayride around town and had so much fun.

I enjoyed watching Aleigha go from house to

house saying trick-or-treat. One house was

even giving out hot dogs. We came home 

with so much candy and Aleigha was one

happy Little Red Riding Hood! 

Corn Maze & Pumpkin Patch

I never got around to getting back on here and posting pics

from our trip to the corn maze/ pumpkin patch so here

ya go. You may remember our trip from last year.

We had such a good time with friends and

family. My granny even went with us.

Riding the little train with Grisham!

 Playing with the water troph

Just a swinging!

Back at the water troph...this was hands down

her favorite thing there!

We took a little hayride to go pick pumpkins!

My Little Pumpking

My nephew Tyler

Our group!

I wasn't sure how she would act getting her face painted

but she did so good I could believe it.

Isn't she adorable?

All 3 kiddos with their faces painted.

Last was the corn maze and we all had so much fun.

Even if we did get a little lost :)

And all of that fun had one little girl wore out!



Pumpkin Pickin'

Here's a little sneak peek of our fun filled day yesterday!