More Festivities:)

Piper had her big Christmas party at school today! She was SOOOOO excited for it and got up early and everything! She said to me yesturday..."Guess what mom...I'm really excited for my party tomorrow!" That is big for Piper! She doesn't really express excitement for the future like that - I don't know how to explain it...I guess she's just oblivious to everything. We made these little reindeer candy bars for her teachers which she thought was so fun and LOVED writing on the back...To: My Teacher From: Piper (she has 21 teachers! I don't know all their names haha hence the 'my teacher') I mean she insisted on writing it ALL out. I may have sneaked a few and done myself because it took ALL AFTERNOON - LITERALLY!

Anyway, she had a blast and came home with lots of little toys and treats and a BIG smile on her face!! I think their favorite toy was the sticky hand things that you throw and they stick on the wall you know? They've been playing with those ALL night long.



I'm so glad she is getting this experience! It is so good for her to make friends and feel special. The teachers (high school students) are so nice and she loves them!




So guess what I saw sneaky Jack the Elf up to...

So excited for them to bust through tomorrow:)

Our House!

So...I have a couple requests for house pictures (this is for you Tiff and Carole!) I actually don't have hardly ANY so once I, ahem, clean my house :) I will put some good ones up. I always like seeing different houses/floor plans and decorations too so hopefully this will get you an idea for now. This first picture is the loft upstairs which has been deemed the play room. I liked this floor plan because when you go up the stairs it's a hall/balcony so you have to turn right to go into the playroom. So I can keep the mess contained a little better:)

This is the Kitchen not much of a picture of the kitchen but the girls sure are cute:)



This is Piper and Bailey's room right when we got it done. Now there are some pictures up and Bailey got her new big girl bedding for her b-day so that's up too. The nursery wasn't done when I took this picture but I was sure I took some of it when it was done but I guess not:( It's really cute though - think PINK haha - I'll get that taken ASAP! Then here is an outside shot before it was totally done. The front door is glass and the shutters are tan now.

So anyway there's a little glimps. I'll work on cleaning so I can get some good shots up later. I expect pics of your new house Carole!!

Jack

Our friendly Elf on the Shelf, Jack, has finally arrived! He made his grand appearance at breakfast Sunday morning and brought with him Snow-covered donuts and hot cocoa with snowballs and even mini kisses from Santa's Reindeer!!

Jack wrote the girls a little note which they were SOOO excited about and Piper couldn't BELIEVE that Jack new about the horse she wants for Christmas. They got new sock slippers and special sippies - fun fun! What a great little Elf!
Already the girls have been angels because they now that sneaky little Elf is watching:)

It sure has been fun so far! And I'm looking forward to all the fun places we'll find our little Elf (thank-you Pinterest!)

December Heat

So no Pictures today:( But I just HAD to post this for memory sake!! We've had just a WONDERFUL weekend! Well I have at least;) Last night was Curtis's work party so we had a real babysitter come over and watch ALL the girls and Curtis and I were FREE! It was wonderful! We were, however, a whole HOUR late to the dinner (and I think they waited for us - SAD!) but Curtis was working late and I couldn't get the babysitter fast enough blah blah...we made it though and the dinner was SOOOOOOOO good! I've hinted a thousand times to Curtis that I would love to go back for our anniversary, my birthday, columbus day... So anyway that was fun and then today we had family pictures taken which really isn't that fun and I don't know if we got any good ones but for some freakish reason I'm not stressed about them...then we had some way fun birthday parties to go to at parks which was soooo fun. (and the girls just LOVED playing with daddy!!!) And then for the BEST part...Curtis and I went on ANOTHER date (sort of ) to get groceries. Kennedy came over and babysat so we could do some errands without the little monsters-I mean munchkins. It was beautiful! And Curtis had some coupons for free hot cocoa at starbucks so we cranked the airconditioner and had hot chocolate on our little drive - gotta love Texas:)

Anyway, it has just been such a wonderful weekend I think really because we got to spend time with Curty!! We sure do love him!

Santa Claus!

Santa Claus has come to town! Tonight Santa came to the League City Library! And we were ready and waiting. Sadly we missed his grand entrance on an old fire engine (because turns out it is sooooo not easy to get anywhere at a specific time with 3 little kids - Lena spit up ALL over me, Bailey wouldn't get her buckles on and somewhere in there we had a stinky diaper) But that's ok - we still got to see the engine (which was really cool!) and of course we still got to see SANTA! However, Lena was the only one brave enough to sit on his lap:) I think santa was worried about holding her but he really didn't have an option, I just handed her over and walked away to get my picture haha.

This is as close as I could get the other girls:) Well, they got a tiny bit closer but both were on verge of tears. They lasted long enough to get their candy cane and ornament and then ran away. Bailey told Santa she wanted a cookie and Piper had me tell Santa she wantes a big horse (the one at target).

After meeting Santa, they had snack and a little craft! How fun! and Cute!! The girls LOVED it.

And Bailey was very very proud of her ginger bread girl.

O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree

It's that time of year! Hooray!! Saturday we headed over to Lowes to get our CHRISTMAS TREE! The girls, especially Piper, were soooooo excited. Piper's been bouncing off the walls ever since:) She kept asking 'are we going to decorate it? When are we going to decorate it? Now, are we going to now?' Seriously NONSTOP!
We started Sunday night but ran out of lights and ended up finishing Monday for FHE. It was so fun! The girls LOVED the Christmas music and especially LOVED looking at all the ornaments. I'd say our house was pretty Jolly!

LOVE this picture of my 4 favorite people!