Nutcracker

The girls and I went to see the Nutcracker on Saturday afternoon.  Santa AND Nutcracker in one day…Bailey went home afterward and put on her “Best Day Ever” shirt. lol.  It was a fun time! 

The girls had never seen the Nutcracker live.  It was put on by Taylor’s Dance Company and we knew one of the performer’s (a pic to come..)

Here are the girls and one of the performers (whom Taylor loved for some reason?)

And here is our star! We love Emily and loved watching her be one of the mice in the show.  (Emily’s little sister Addy is in Tales dance class).   The show was almost 2 hours, but the girls both did fantastic.  Tales was in hog heaven the whole time .

Blair’s work Christmas Party

 

We went to a Christmas Party for Blair’s work on Saturday morning.  The girls were SO excited to meet Santa.  They loved the decorations….

They had a lot of activities set up for the kids including making their own gingerbread men….T couldn’t resist the icing

Looks like B couldn’t either. lol.

We made stamp Christmas cards..

and ornaments!

Tales stood in line patiently for her kitty cat balloon.  She wasn’t so sure about Santa (Gunny Clause version ), but did tell him what she wanted. 

This girl had no reservations meeting Santa.  Biggest SMILE EVER!

Fun morning full of memories. Was hard to see all the complete “families” there, but glad we went anyway.  The girls had a blast!

Thanksgiving 2012

We so enjoyed having “barbie” Grammie and “fishy” Papa come visit for Thanksgiving.  We ate lots of yummy food, played outside and enjoyed several outings.  I even got to go on an extended girl’s date night to an awesome restaurant!   Thanks guys for coming.  We miss you already.

BIG baby news…….

 

We are still a little shocked, but couldn’t be more excited.  Either way, a healthy baby is the goal .  Blair was able to hear the news live at the ultrasound when I did.  Technology is so amazing.  I have an extra dvd of the appt. to send to him .   Boy oh Boy oh Boy…..wow.

Mike’s Farm with the BFF’s.

Tonight we headed to Mike’s Farm to eat (yumm-o!), ride the hayride and pick out some pumpkins with the girl’s best friends.  Bethany’s Mom and Dad are in town and so is my cousin Alexis.  We ended up having 5 adults and 5 children (ages 6,5,4,3 and almost 2).  Great ratios !  The girls had a ton of fun and the weather could not have been nicer.  Cool, but not cold.  

Blue-eyed best friends Emma and Bailey

Brown eyed friends Grace and Taylor

Emma (4 almost 5), Bailey (5), Grace (6), Taylor (3) on the hayride.

The girls playing ring-around-the-rosy in line to ride the hayride.  “Baby” Abby is at the bottom…poor girl didn’t get her picture taken as much.

My squishy Bales.  She was SO excited the whole time we were there.  Poor Alexis had to follow her around the whole patch to find the “perfect” pumpkin.

The pumpkins that were chosen!

The crazy crew

It was a long weekend last weekend for the military (one of the few jobs that you get off for Columbus day!).  We spent the weekend hanging out and finally organizing our home to my specifications (it has only been 4 months since moving in. lol). 

Here is Bailey’s glove feet.  Silly girl.

Here is Tales wearing a swimsuit, tiara and high heels with her animals.  This isn’t what you wear to organize your closet?!

Winter clothes are in the closets and Taylor’s “too small” clothes are packed to go to the cousins.  Overall, it was a productive, relaxing weekend!

The day.

This was the day.  The dreaded day since we found out he would be leaving late last year.  He has been settled now for about 6 weeks and is doing well.  We are finally adjusted to everything and are starting to thrive instead of just survive. lol.   I have felt like a crazy person, but I guess selling your home (for a loss ), moving the girls and I alone, a deployment and a 3rd pregnancy all within 2 months will do that to a person.  Please continue to pray for Blair and our family when you think of it.  We find out the gender on Oct. 19th .

On one of our last days, we went bowling.  The girls played the “hunting” game with Daddy .

Daytona Beach Aug 2012

We had the honor of joining some of our best friends, Jeremy and Rebekah in Daytona Beach for 24 hours.  They live in Arizona, so we don’t get to see them as often as we like.  This was a KID FREE event .  We enjoyed lounging on the beach, long walks, pool dips, Aunt Catfish’s food, and shopping.  So relaxing.  Thanks guys for the great treat!

Here is Blair and I before we went out to eat.

First Day of PreK for Bales

Bailey’s Pre-K class started while we were in FL.  Her first day was on Monday the 17th .  Here are some pictures that we took that morning.  She has LOVED going the past few days.  Taylor and I are starting to get into a routine ourselves while she is gone.  Taylor will be going to the cdc on base 1-2x/week to get some school time herself . 

Silly faces!  Don’t they look so big?!

Smiles

 

My Mom and Tales. A happy pair .

Taylor’s Best Day Ever

 

I promise to try and update the blog from the past couple months…starting with the most recent events .   We left the Cellon’s on Sunday morning after Poppy’s memorial service to visit with my parents for a couple days.  On the last day we were there we took them to some friends of my parent’s that have horses.  They girls were able to feed them, ride them and brush them.  They even got to take a tour of the horse trailer.  Both girls loved it, but Tales especially was in horse heaven!

The girls a grinnin’

After the horse riding fun we took a rest on Mr. Jim’s new swing. 

PS- both girls have on their “horse” shirts!