Christmas Eve

Merry Christmas!! We started off our Christmas celebrations by meeting Michael's brother and family at our favorite holiday restaurant for lunch. It was a great time! The kids had fun and the food was great.

Pose with the big Santa...he sure seemed bigger last time...or maybe it's just because she was so much smaller yikes!



We went to the 4:00 church service....wow you wouldn't believe how crowded it was. We were there in plenty of time but so were the 3,000 people ahead of us...WOW!! We ended up having to jump the curb to park in the grass and had to stand during church, I was very irritated but when it started, I was able to pull myself out of the mood I was getting in and it was an amazing service absolutely amazing!!! I'm so thankful!! I thought this was a pretty picture, the storm clouds were rolling in but the church was glowing! It was awesome!

Then after church we went to my dad's house for an incredibly delicious Italian dinner and gifts. Poor little girl whacked her shin on the coffee table in this picture you can see the ice pack that was "needed".....

Here is my 5 year old teenager....YIKES

Then it was on to gift time!!! Little girl scored!!!

Here's Jasmine.... some gifts just have to be on and tested out....right now!!!!

It was a very awesome Christmas Eve. I hope we're making fabulous memories and traditions for many years to come.

Year in Review

I have a ton of pictures to post but wanted to start with a year in review. What an amazing year it's been! Here is Mikayla's 2010.

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

I can't believe how fast my baby is growing up on me!

Pouty - Brouchure - Sunset

Hows that for a random title.... LOL - lets start with the Pouty, this is dedicated to Daddy and Papa.... (she's practicing for when she "needs" something) seriously - how do you say no, now as her mother I say no all the time but the men in her life.... well they have a harder time LOL








I'll give a kiss if you say yes...... (works every time LOL)



I just liked this picture :)


Brochure.... now... for anyone who has seen as many boat brochures, boating websites, and flyer's as I have...these are marketable photos...LOL (I was playing around with my super zoom camera lens)

Whoopsie, too close on this one....

The sunset was amazing - it was truly beautiful!!! I love watching the sun set.... it's fun to capture it - and heck why not with a super zoom lens LOL

Santa Baby!!!

Well Mikayla has been looking forward to seeing Santa for a long time now!! She went right to him, she didn't even get "star
struck" like she usually does.

They had a really nice conversation, she told him she planned to leave him three cookies and food for the reindeer, he thought that was a nice idea. She thanked him for the nice email he sent her - he said oh you saw that did you.... she was pleased about that and then she wanted to make sure he wasn't too hot in his coat when he was inside, he said no he was just fine, he's used to having to wear it. Then she asked if she could have two pillow pets... a bumble bee one and a unicorn one.... and if Santa could work it out a 2nd bumble bee one for her dad. She's such a sweetie!!!

Our Christmas Angel

We had Mikayla's church program on Friday. It was so much fun, she was all kinds of jazzed up about it.... we had a few costume malfunctions...her wings were tight (which I reused from her very first Halloween....back in 2006.....) and her halo kept falling into her face and covering her eyes, at one point she was just looking out through the halo part like it was a telescope!! It was way too funny! I'm literally laughing out loud just thinking about it. She did a great job though, she knew her songs! I'm so proud of her!




I'm not at all sure why she made this face...... she is such a poser!!!


Coming in :)

Holding the halo of torture....

As a mother, it's our prerogative to thoroughly enjoy these types of programs, you can't really hear that well, there is the child that is SCREAMING the songs... there is the mass confusion trying to get 300+ 3-6 year olds to participate, pay attention and sing..... but it's our prerogative to thoroughly enjoy every single solitary second of this because our babies are up in front of a large crowd (I'm certain there were over 2000 people there - the church has seats for 2700 and it wasn't quite full but close enough) and sing and just be proud to be a part of something big.... I know that I am so proud of her!!!!

Here is some of the video....