Christmas Cookies

Look at that mess!!!!

We went over to a friend's house to decorate Christmas cookies. We had a great time. Savannah loved the cookies but would not touch or eat any cookies that we decorated. She only wanted to eat plain sugar cookies. Fine with me...it was less messy that way. While we were over there she also discovered a toy that she loved and was capable of doing herself....the sit and spin. I had one as a child and had forgotten all about that toy. Looks like I will have to look in to getting her one now!

Santa Claus is Coming to Town!

Our train ride around the mall!

Walking down the mall! Too cute!

My nieces..Emily and Sydney

We took Savannah and her 2 cousins to see Santa tonight. I knew Savannah was probably not going to like him much this year. However, she did better than I thought she would. She sat up there with her 2 older cousins which I think helped. She was scared and cried but didn't scream in horror like I thought she would. And for those of you who know Emmy you will laugh when you see what she has on! Afterwards, we took the children on a train ride. She loved it and kept saying "choo...choo". It was very cute!

Happy Birthday Sydney!

Noah and Savannah waiting patiently for their cake!

Sydney with her "Fancy Nancy" doll

Savannah had no interest in sitting still for a picture!

Emmy and Savannah hugging

My niece Sydney celebrated her 5th birthday this past Friday. We had her family birthday party last night and today she has her "Fancy Nancy" birthday party with 10 of her little preschool friends. I can't believe how big she is getting. It seems like just yesterday that she was Savannah's age. She is such a little princess! She has such a sweet and kind spirit about her. Happy Birthday Sydney. We love you very much!

Girls Weekend to Biltmore

My mom and 2 sister-in-laws took a girls trip last weekend. We went up to Asheville, NC to the Biltmore Estate. It was beautiful. They had it decorated for Christmas with huge, beautiful Christmas trees and thousands of lights. We also visited The Grove Park Inn where they had their annual gingerbread house competition. These gingerbread houses were AMAZING! While shopping at downtown Biltmore we saw people dressed up in old fashioned clothes caroling the streets and others putting on small skits. It was so much fun! We had such a great time! We hope to make our girls Christmas trip and annual event! Here are a few pictures that I had on my camera. The rest are on my mom's.

My Little Princess....

Early Merry Christmas!

We got the girls (cousins) pictures taken for Christmas recently. It took a lot of hard work and effort but finally we got a good picture. Sweet Sydney just sat and smiled the whole time while we tried to get Emily to smile and Savannah to stay seated. I love the picture we got though!!

Christmas Tree

Savannah put the snowman on the tree all by herself : )

We finally decorated our Christmas tree this past weekend. Savannah, having experience in tree decorating from Nana's house, knew exactly what to do. It was so cute. She would not hang the ornament, but lay in on the branches and then turn to us and say "Yay" and clap her hands. She was so proud of herself. The only problem now that we are having is that she really likes the ornaments and keeps trying to take them off the tree so that she can "hang" them again. We were smart enough though to hang breakable ornaments above her head. However some are still not out of her reach so we have to keep an eye on her. She also is now saying "Christmas tree". She says it very well. It is so cute. She will point to it and say "Christmas tree". And at night before bed after saying night-night to daddy and BoBo (our dog), we have to say night-night to the tree as well. So fun!!