Wordless Wednesday - Ponytail Girls

{Comparison from November 2008}

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My {Grown Up Christmas Gift} Faves

Just taking a little break from all of the overwhelming amounts of Christmas pictures to talk about a few of my favorite gifts I received.

Number 1 .. The 3 or 4 outfits from my momma! She bought me 3 pair of leggings, 2 pair tights, 4 shirts, a scarf and some jewlery. They are all around the same shades of color so I can mix and match them so many different ways. Yay! She knows my style to a "T" and I can always count on her to hook me up! Love my new stuff! Don't worry, i'll take pictures when I wear them.. you know I wouldn't pass that up. {wink}

Number 2 .. The mp3 Auxiliary car cable that C bought me for my iPod. I can hook up my iPod directly to the Auxiliary outlet in my car and my tunes play over the radio. Best gadget EVER! I loathe commercials, so this little dude is perfect for me.

Number 3 .. My super awesome new boots shown in the last post. I also got a black pair of mid calf black boots with a gold buckle. My dad gave me money to buy some new boots. He wasn't about to venture out and try to pick something out that I would like. Nope, he doesn't know my style like my mom does. One year when I was eighteen, he showed up with a baby pink Branson sweatshirt with a little bird on the front. Sweeeet!

I got a few other pretty cool things, but those were my top 3 faves! What can I say, i'm still a kid when it comes to Christmastime {smile}

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Wrapping Up the Christmas Parties

Are you tired of Christmas pictures yet? If you are, don't worry, this will be the last post..I think. Can't promise anything.

On Christmas day afternoon, we went to my dad's and stepmoms gathering. I should've added those pictures with the last post, but that's okay. They had the biggest food setup and it was all so good. Someone smoked a turkey. YUM! We already ate all of our leftovers. Boo.

Care Bear quickly getting back into unwrapping gifts. She would pull the paper and say "ugh. ugh!" It was really funny.
Miss Priss got boots because Papa T's house always floods. lol! Now she can wear big ol boots like he does when they go to feed the horses.
Good gravy, that pile of presents is as tall as her. She tackled them with ease though.

In LOVE with this picture. They love eachother so much. I can't believe they both looked at me like they actually hugged for a picture. Awww.
Opening gifts at my grandma's on the day after Christmas. She bought a few gifts for them to keep at her house, which is a GREAT idea to ME! That means nothing to take home. ha!

Miss Priss wanted to wear her scarf and ear warmer so I clipped a Bow to the side of it. She didn't mind..until it got itchy.

Anyone notice that this girl is always eating? It keeps her entertained.

PlayDoh!! Man, that was a big hit. Glad it isn't coming to our house. {wink}
Me and CB trying to figure out MP's new laptop. I think CB likes it more than MP. They are so smart to know what a laptop is. {OH! See my new boots?! I bought them at Kohls on the early bird special that very morning! I used my Christmas money from my dad. They were regular $79 and I got them for $35.}

Me fake smiling it up. CB looking oh.so.cute!
She got a CUTE Surprise Cabbage Patch baby from my BIL and his girlfriend. I'd never heard of these, but they're so cute. You take them out of the bundle and see what color diaper they have. Hers was BLUE!! His name is Leonard Kyree. Ha! Ha! I'll have to get a pic of him later.
So excited..or just being cheesy when I said to smile. She just HAD to wear her Christmas dress at least once. We never made it to Sears for pics this year :(
Wow! An art easel. She liked opening that one, but she hasn't played with it once.
That's the end of our party events. It was a long Christmas this year, but like I said before, much less stressful, which is always a plus. I stayed up last night putting up toys. The house looks much better and everything has found a place. Once again, Merry Christmas! Have a happy and safe New Year's Eve!

Oh and thank you for the advice on the blue mark on C's face! That totally makes sense. I'll be more careful with the red eye fixer next time.

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Christmas Eve Traditions and Christmas Morning!!

It's taking me a little while to get all of this posted because we're still partying!! Well not partying, but Christmas partying. Today was our last one though. Whew. I'm worn out and I feel like our house is about to burst with toys.

Christmas Eve after my family christmas party, we come home and do our yearly Eve traditions. Open jammies and ornaments then take pictures. Love it!
Care Bear saying "Cheeeeeese!" She's such a good little cheeser for momma.
My all time FAVORITE picture of my girls togetether..to date. So precious. They were being very well behaved and had the most fun week of their lives, I think.
Such a happy little thing. I swear, she has laughed and smiled more this week than i've ever seen her do. She's always happy and smiley, but this week she was extra giggly. Oh and the cookies helped.
Family jammie picture. Gotta love self timers.
Mmm. Love santa cookies!
One of the only pictures I have of the two of us together. {I don't know what that blue is on C's face? Maybe it's just on my computer}
Note to Santa. Miss Priss wrote her name all by herself. Go girl!
The Christmas morning setup. Loved playing Santa's elf!
When I woke MP up! I said "Santa came!! You must've been a good girl." she came up out of the bed so quick, I missed her face. ha!
Taking it all in. So much fun!
SOO excited! That is the coolest baby ever. She laughed out loud for a while.

Checking out their stockings. See what all we can fit into PB stockings..LOTS!

A new scarf like her momma!! Woo Hoo! She loved it and had to wear it immediately.
Our Christmas morning was amazing! We had a stress FREE, relaxing, fun holiday with our family. I hope you all had a fun time with your family. We are still re cooperating from all of the parties. Hopefully life will get back to normal soon. {wink}

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Christmas Eve Cookies and Parties

Well a BIG Merry Christmas everyone!!!! I hope everyone had as great a holiday as we did. It was the best yet, by far! Our girls had the most amazing time with family. We've been so blessed this year.

We've also been very very busy as many of you have been i'm sure. Our events started Wednesday night {christmas eve's eve} at my mom's. We opened gifts with her that night because the rest of the week was packed.

Christmas Eve morning the girls played and played with their toys. So much fun for two little girlies.

Miss Priss showing off her new PJ's from Nini..and house shoes! They came in a little pack with pj's, house shoes, rubber duck and rubber frog. Cool!
Me modelling my new outfit from my mom! She got me several and I LOVE them all. They are SO me.
Miss Priss and I baked cookies and brownies on Christmas Eve night. They were GFree of course. Betty Crocker is now making these Gfree mixes at Target. YAY!
She is the most amazing big helper! She really does help a TON.
Me and my mini bakerella. Love her.
Yum! How can you not lick the beater, I mean come on..
then you must get messy and have a chocolate smile.
Yummy GFree cookies! A bit crumbly, but seriosuly good! They were GONE at my family Christmas party.
Our second party, my families. We have such a big family, we draw names. These are the girls opening their gifts.
Cutie. They both got dolls.
With their {my second} cousins that are about the same age as each of them.
Ha!! Crazy girl.
These are the events leading up to Christmas. I'll get our Christmas morning and afternoon post up soon. I'm sorry it has taken me so long. We've been buried under a large pile of TOYS!!! Oh and playing with lots of stuff.

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The Reason for the Season

I've fallen into the money trap of Christmas. It happens every year and every year I say i'm not going to do it again the next. But I do. This year has been no different, until now, that is.

We spent money here and there trying to get the kids so many things to unwrap, but guess what happened? We ran out of money! Remember I said that about my dad's gift? I wasn't lying. We literally were at a $0 balance. I prayed about it hard. I didn't let myself stress or get bent out of shape. That's what I normally would have done, but this time I put it all on God. I knew I couldn't do it myself. C and I have not been this broke ..ever. It's hard, but you know what? We are able to pay our bills and we have a home and food and that is all that matters at the end of the day. Presents are a bonus, not a necessity.

Well, God came through for us in a very unexpected way. I got a letter in the mail with no return label that said MERRY CHRISTMAS! and had a $100 bill. I opened it and started shaking and had tears running down my face. I don't know who it was from, but whoever you are, i'm eternally grateful. I haven't had anyone do anything so generous for my family in a very long time. Praise be to GOD! I'm so so thankful. I just cannot express it enough. This week was tough already because C was short almost an entire day so this money will buy our groceries for the week. YAY!

Point of my post. Let's remember the reason for the season. If everyone could do something generous for someone else, the world be a much happier place to be. Merry Christmas everyone. Happy Birthday to Jesus Christ!!!

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Care Bear 14 Months

I typed this up last night on the 21st {CB's bd}, but forgot to publish it.

My Care Bear girl has been here fourteen months. Wow. It has gone by to fast and it isn't slowing down anytime soon.

I feel as though she has been with us forever, but then again, I remember taking those two to three pregnancy tests like it was yesterday. None of my BBC girls saw the second line so I had to prove it to them with a "Pregnant" reading on a digital test. My pregnancy with CB was amazing. I exercised the whole 9 months and I felt great! Her birth is still fresh in my mind as well, but in case you have forgotten or never heard about it, here's the story and pictures{OMG I was HUGE!.}

Fourteen months must be a big age in development and learning. Care Bear has started doing and saying so many new things. I love to just sit and watch her every day.

She says

• Daddy (It's never been DaDa..always Daddddeeee)
• Momma
• Seee sy (for sissy)
• Ball
• Bite
• Shoes
• Quack Quack
• Uh Oh (Her FAV! and she knows the proper way to use it too)
• Barney
• Book
• Fish
• Mmm! Aww!
• Baby
• Juice

Those are all words that everyone can understand, she says a few things that only I can understand, but I wont count those. She is able to take commands such as "Bring momma your paci" or "Get another book"

She only knows two animal sounds.. Dog = Woof Woof, Duck = Quack Quack.

She loves to dance and pretend like she is jumping. She'll squat down really low and pop up like she's jumping super high of the ground. It's so cute! She likes to sing songs and do the motions. She has a great memory!! Also, as I mentioned before, she loves to Call the HOGS!! Wooo Pig SOOie!!

Miss Priss and CB are started to play very well together. It's my favorite thing to see. MP likes to play with CB a little more though. CB gets mad and pushes her and tries to knock her out. She is almost as big as MP!

She's just like her big sister in that she loves Barney, but different from her sister in practically every other way{still.} CB is extremely independent and gets angry if things do not go just her way. She'll scream out arch her back and throw herself down. Att-i-tude!! We like to call {affectionately of course} Miss Drama Queen!!

All in all, this age is so much fun! I'm loving living it again with my second girl!

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