Christmas Pictures Take 2

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My sister is working with Mimi's etsy store on some pictures to show off Mimi's completely adorable beanies. Check out her pictures of the kids in their beanies on her photography blog here.

Awhile back, I won a shopping cart cover from Myra (check out her blog-it's awesome) made by Mimi. It is wonderful...we use it ALL the time (and I actually have 2 store bought ones and like this one MUCH better!!). Check out the blogs and let them all know what you think!!

Christmas Pictures Take 1

I'm no Marsha, but I tried to take some Christmas pictures of Sydney today. For those of you that didn't hear, Sydney has been sick since Wednesday night. She was feeling better today, so we decided to attempt pictures. She is still {extremely} cute, but we didn't get any of her normal big smiles.

Don't laugh--I know some of you had trolls!

I just love this "don't mess with my troll" face

Mommy made the bow, Mimi made the dress!

Gotta show off this beautiful dress!

Thoughtless Thursday

Ok...so I'm a day late...Here are 2 goofy new pictures for you anyway!

God, Guns, and Guts made America free!

Happy Veterans Day!
We would like to thank all of our past and present military for all that they have done and all they are doing to protect America!

We were able to take Sydney to Decatur this morning to see the Veterans Day parade. She enjoyed it (except the loud fire trucks) and even got her own flag to wave from the veterans walking! Someone made the comment to us that a lot of kids now don't understand the meaning of our flag and how sad it is...Well, we plan on teaching Sydney the meaning of the flag and the importance of our Veterans!

Thank you to all those who serve!

Motion Monday Part 2

Sydney LOVES to splash in the bathtub. We get almost as wet as she does. She doesn't even care that it gets all in her face, she just keeps on splashing...This video is actually a mild version of her splashing! Hope you enjoy!

Motion Monday

Sydney has started "dancing" when she hears music. It's really cute...she can be crawling around and as soon as she hears music, she has to stop and dance.

A long {fun-filled} weekend

This weekend has been a very busy, but very fun one! We started our journey Thursday evening as we headed to Mobile, AL to visit my very special niece for her 3rd birthday party (has it been 3 whole years already??) We had a blast playing with Katie & Austin and spending time with the rest of the family! Megan & I enjoyed helping Marsha decorate for the party during naptime--and when Katie woke up, she LOVED it! Katie was so sweet--she kept thanking everyone for her party and for coming to visit her at her house. Austin wasn't feeling well some of the time, but he was still a very sweet boy! He can blow kisses and say milk and thank you and it is adorable!! Austin's favorite part of the party was the tissue paper!!

When we got back home, we decided to go to Hartselle's Christmas open house so that Sydney could meet Santa and we could go spend her gift certificate to The Robin's Nest. She was okay with Santa at first...she even took a candy cane from him...but when he moved beside her to take a picture she decided to start pouting! She didn't even really cry...and she was over it as soon as he moved back and started talking to her again! I think she heard somewhere that kids are supposed to cry in their first pictures with Santa!

We took her to The Robin's Nest to pick out her first "real" baby doll. She loved them all! Everytime she saw one she grinned. We {finally} picked out a beautiful Corolle doll that is soft, just Sydney's size, AND can go in the bathtub!! Sydney absolutely loved her! I think she may have found a new best friend!

Motion Monday

Sometimes (ok, a LOT of times)...I do silly things to make Sydney laugh...it's so easy some days :) Anyway, here is a video of Sydney playing and laughing at Mommy.