The Girl's Christmas Parties 2016

Today Jonathan, Noah and I got to go to the girl's schools and join them for their Christmas parties. It's the first year both girls are in public school together, so it was a pretty hectic morning/afternoon! 

Annabella's class, along with the other pre-K class and kindergarten classes had their annual sing-a-long. Annabella is usually so shy and reserved, but she ROCKED her songs!! She did all of the singing and dancing and thoroughly enjoyed herself. She also enthusiastically waved at us each time she made eye contact and it was the sweetest thing! 

After her sing-a-long, we had lunch with her in her classroom for her class party. Noah is so cute when he goes into Anna's class because the teacher is incredibly inclusive and always lets Noah join in in everything they do. He got his own chair at her table, ate with her and got to make his own reindeer food!

Once we were done with Annabella, we took a short break and got to join Madelynn's class for her party. Today was a special pajama day and they got to eat pizza, have a book exchange, and they sang 3 adorable songs for all of the parents. She wasn't feeling 100%, but she still enjoyed herself and was ecstatic about checking out and going home early!

I am so excited to start winter break with my babies and squeeze in all of the traditions (old and new) that we can before Christmas gets here on Sunday! 

2014 Wrap Up

It has been SO long since I've updated!! I feel so bad and am making a personal goal to update more often so we can preserve these sweet memories of our babies. 

For Halloween I made all three of the kids costumes in one day because we thought in town Trick-or-Treating was a week later than it really was! Madelynn was Elsa, Annabella was Anna, and Noah was Olaf from Frozen. They were adorable. It was surprisingly hot and we stood in line forever to get candy in downtown Loganville, but we ended up having a great time.

Thanksgiving was a lot of fun. We went to Uncle Alex and Aunt Ashley's house in Cumming with our family and Ashley's family. All of the cousins got to play together and tons of fun was had by all. It was a really great Thanksgiving and the road trip with all three of the kids was really NOT bad at all. The next day on Black Friday, we bought Vanna! Our new Grand Caravan. After making the cramped drive in the Journey all the way to Cumming and having wanted a minivan for some time, we took advantage of an awesome Black Friday sale and got a BRAND NEW minivan for the family. As resistant as I was, I love my minivan and will probably never drive anything else again, lol! 

During the holidays, Noah started walking! In December, at 10 months old, he took his first steps and by Christmas he was basically running everywhere he went!

Christmas was so.much.fun! We stayed home all day long this year. We had a fun breakfast of cinnamon rolls in the morning and opened presents. Then I cooked Christmas lunch for us and Nonni and Papa came over with a ham to eat with us. Once they left, Granny and Grand Daddy came over in the evening and we had another Christmas together. We also hosted Christmas Eve at our house with Grandmama Cook, Mike, Christina and Ethan. Here are some of my favorite photos with the NEW CAMERA that my amazing husband gave me for Christmas!! I'm the luckiest mama ever. :)

These are from Christmas Eve

Nothing like a quality photo of all of the kids in front of the Christmas Tree

Just a couple from Christmas Morning