Bargains!

First of all I love a good bargain...second of all.... I love when the good bargain turns into a really fun activity for us! I found this ginger bread house kit on sale after Christmas! After all...who would want to make a ginger bread house after Christmas...right??!!

Not that Addie would have cared if we called it a "Ginger Bread House" but we decided to call it the Seven Dwarfs Cottage instead! No matter what you call it...this was a lot of fun and of course...messy...which we both love! An art project is just not fun if you can't get messy!

Addie was not really into the icing but she LOVED the candy!

Addie of course tasted the candy out of each bag prior to decorating the cottage! We had to make sure it was good right???


You think she has had enough candy by now???? Or are her eyes normally this large!

Despite the fact that we only had enough icing and candy to decorate the front of the house, the roof and only one side of the house........we were still pretty pleased with our First "Cottage"! Later that day Addie would walk by the house and say "can I have some window?" "Can I have some roof?"!!

Cathing Up

Once again I have waited a whole month to update the blog. Maybe that should be my New Year's Resolution."update Blog more often". I pretty much use this Blog as a memory book of the things we have done because I don't want to forget anything! So...bare with me...I'll try to run through December with as little writing as possible! My sister even told me...."I don't read what you write...I just look at the pictures". Well...honesty is the best policy I guess. And...I don't have to worry about her reading that I am writing about her since....she never reads what I write!

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For those of you that have ever read this blog before you know...I LOVE doing art projects with Addie's hand prints to see how she has grown since the last project. So this Christmas was no different!

We started out by painting the paper...then it moved to the table...then the chair. I know I have said this before but thank goodness for Crayola Paint! It comes out of anything....well almost anything!

My next adventure in December was my annual Christmas shopping trip to Charlotte with my mom, sister and aunt! We love the mall in Charlotte....SouthPark! It is so much fun and such a nice mall! It is so much fun to have a girl's weekend with the family! I love this tradition and hope we keep doing it every year.

Of course while at SouthPark I met the famous Robert Pattinson....ok so he was a cardboard cutout of Robert Pattinson but it is still as close as I will ever get so I had to capture it on film!!

Addie is not afraid of Santa, the Easter Bunny, the Chuck E Cheese mouse, The Chick Fil A Cow...etc. She goes write up to them and starts a conversation...as you can see here with Santa! She didn't want to leave!

Addie and I went with some of our friends, Lucas and Diana, to an outside tree lighting which was soo cold but we still had fun!

I think they are having fun.....

Lucas and Diana!





We headed to my parent's house to celebrate Christmas with YaYa, Granddad, Aunt Winnie, Uncle Rod, Auntie Caroline and Grandmomma! The picture above is of Addie walking in and seeing what Santa left her for the first time! She was sad she didn't get to actually see Santa at YaYa and Granddad's house but when she saw the loot he left....she quickly got over it!


Addie loves her dollhouse that Santa brought her! Whenever we play house I always have to be the dad though....she always wants to be the mom! So funny! Sometimes she pretends the people in the dollhouse are Mary, Jesus and "Jophus"! Of course...I always have to be "Jophus" because she is Mary! David said that he always has to be "Jophus" too when he plays that with Addie!


Her first high heels.....they are a little big but still fabulous! She clops around the house in them leaving a loud clanking noise in her dust.....

Digging in her stocking......

This is hilarious....Grandmomma and Baby with their matching Snuggies! We need to get Baby's monogrammed too!

Our last stop in December was to head over to a friend's house who was in town for Christmas! Of course Addie loved their dog, Wilson! Wilson's parents started their own natural dog treat business, Wilson's treats! The treats are delicious...so I have been told! What a cute spokesdog!

What a wonderful Holiday season! Even though I missed sweet Tallulah a lot over the holidays I have a ton of good memories and pictures of her that will last forever! Of course having Addie around makes anyone forget their troubles or worries becuase she is just so fun! Now on to January!