Christmas Highlights

Christmas was more fun then ever this year,  Estella had an absolute blast and was such a trooper the whole time going form place to place!!! We kicked off the Christmas celebrations starting the weekend before by watching the Holidazzle parade at my dads office.  This is the third year in a row my parents have invited their friends, friends kids and grand kids we had over 60 adults and kids. Santa made an appearance and gave all the kids treat bags and a gift each parent brought! Most of the kids cried and Stell didn't want to get near him, it was pretty funny! We ate tons of goodies and drank lots of wine. The kids ran like wild and we all watch the Holidazzle light up parade! Someone did take a group photo before everyone left and I can't wait to see it. 

Sunday we had Christmas with Bryan's dad and siblings. Christmas Eve all the girls headed to church while the boys were at work, Stella did great she loved all the music and found many people to wave at and play peek a boo with. We had Christmas that night with my moms family and it was so nice and relaxing to not have to go anywhere else! Christmas day morning I was so excited for Stella to wake up and see what surprises Santa had left her. The night before I had the best time setting everything out to make sure it looked perfect:) The look on her face was priceless when she saw her kitchen! She LOVED it... thank god because daddy worked very hard to put it all together;) We ate brunch with my family then headed to Bry's brothers house to spend time with his mom and have lunch. By three o'clock we were off again heading back to Bry's dads house for the extended family Christmas. By the time we got home around 8 there were a few people left at my parents from my dads family Christmas that we got to see! It was an exhausting day but happy we got to see everyone!!!

 Christmas Eve, can't believe hoe old our lil Stell Bell looks!

Santa came and someone was a very good girl this year!

Stella with her cousin Maddie & Elyse, W/ papa, Auntie Stacy, My mom and Max, My cousin Ashley and her family, My dad, Me and my Brother 

This picture just kills me!!! The look on my dads face is priceless...apparently someone just figured out she could stick her finger up her nose! Of course everyone laughs when she does it so now my lil lady has been doing it quite a bit, icky but also kinda funny;)

Bry with our nephew Gabe and my mother in law with 2 of her grandchildren  

Stella's favorite things during Christmas~

• Frosty the snow man, this includes the song, book and anything snowman she saw
• Christmas lights, every night she would get all bundled up and go up and down the street to look at all the neighborhood lights
• Frosting cookies and sprinkles 
• Of course eating the cookies she frosted 
• Looking at my moms Christmas village with all the people and also her Santa collection 
• Taking ornaments off the tree
• Getting Christmas cards, especially ones where she recognized the people! she would carry them around the house giving them kisses...such a sweetie pie. 

Once again Christmas came and went so fast. I can't believe it's almost the New Year,  I'm really looking forward to what 2014 has in store for us!!!

It's cookie time!!!

I have the future Betty Crocker on my hands folks! We baked our first round of Christmas cookies this week and Stell Bell LOVED it! She loved it so much she had a major shit fit when we finished;) Girlfriend stirred, frosted, sprinkled, licked/tasted and ate sprinkles like it was nobody's business! She had so much fun and it was the best to watch her get so exited to do it all on her own! Plus she looked so damn cute I could hardly stand it:)

Stell's favorite part was definitely the sprinkles, she would pick them up one by one to eat! 

My mom was going to make her an apron but we found this one for $3 in the dollar section at target so we couldn't pass it up! She did have to alter it and added the cute lil snowman to jazz it up! 

We have a lot more baking to do around here so I better get my butt in gear...Happy Baking Friends:) 

Pj Party Fun!

 I LOVE any excuse to dress my lil miss in festive pajamas and take lots of pictures, not so sure she loved it... But I sure did try:) We had so much fun doing the Halloween Pj Party we had to join in the fun again and link-up with theses pretty ladies for the Holly Jolly Pj Party!

Loving on her Bitty baby, makes my heart happy that this was my baby and I passed it down to Stella

Only Picture I have in her Santa Pjs

More snowman Pjs someone is obsessed with frosty this year:)

 Looking for the bunny in the yard with fur sister Chloe

Thanks Ladies for hosting such a fun link-up, can't wait to see all the Pj cuteness!!! 

Santa's Coming to town!

This year we decided to try out the Santa Experience at MOA! It was nothing short of a huge fail but hey it made for a great picture:) We still have a few more things this year that she will see Santa at so I hope I haven't scarred her for life by making her sit on his lap!
Just a few pictures I took with my camera.....

 Don't think it helped that they have Santa sneak up on them! They try to have them get comfortable by reading a book but then bam Santa's appears... not a great idea if you ask me

I thought the chair they had her in was ugly so I asked if she could sit on his lap, they were less then thrilled and said because she was crying they didn't want to scare all the other kids. Sorry! I at least wanted a picture where she was looking even if she was screaming her head off:) Pretty sure they thought I was a horrible mommy... guess I know what I'll be getting in my stocking this year;)

Better Luck next time! 

Hope you have a wonderful weekend, and it's warmer then ours! We are in the negatives people!!! My goal for the weekend is to stay warm!!!