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Tuesday, December 27, 2011

White Christmas

 We arrived in Albuquerque just in time for another snow storm.  It had snowed just before we got here so we really did enjoy a White Christmas!
Three generations making Christmas cookies and peanut brittle.  Yummy!

Ready for the snow and so excited to make a snowman!

Daddy, Papa, and Bailey made a great snowman!
Sledding down Grandma and Grandpa's hill was so fun!  They ended up with 18 more inches of snow on top of the 15 they already had!
Go Grandma!
Snow Buddies
Having fun in the princess castle tent!
Making a gingerbread house--it turned out so cute!
Christmas pictures coming soon!

Friday, December 23, 2011

O Christmas Tree

Miss Laura and Bailey were cute and match-y!
Bailey and Marianne
Merry Christmas!
Thompson Family
Our "Friendly Beast" at our church's Christmas play.

Oh What Fun...

...it is to decorate cookies...
...with sweet friends!
...it is to get a new puppy for Christmas!  Thanks Aunt Nicki and Uncle Don for our new puppy, Hannah!  She is just perfect!
...it is to help Mama bake!
...to spend a morning doing Christmas crafts with friends.  Unfortunately, I didn't take any pics of our crafts, but Bailey took this picture of our friend, Liam!

Christmastime at Disneyland

 We went to Disneyland to see it decorated for Christmas and it was amazing!  We would highly recommend visiting at this time of year.
Biggest Christmas tree we've ever seen!
 
At the castle
We got to meet Sleeping Beauty...
...Jasmin...
...and Belle.  What a treat!
Silly Tigger
We got to meet Santa's reindeer!
Mrs. Claus was so sweet and excited for Christmas.
Toy soldiers in the Christmas parade.
Beautiful snowflakes
Merry Christmas to all!
The castle was just beautiful at night!
It's a Small World was all decked out!  

Early Christmas

We enjoyed an early Christmas with Addy and Milly the day after Thanksgiving and before we headed back to CA.  This was the best picture I got of the big girls.
Lots of love!
They helped each other open gifts and opened Milly's gifts for her.
Sweet Milly

Sunday, December 4, 2011

Thankful

We are so thankful for all of the blessings God has given us.  We are truly blessed to have wonderful families and thankful that we got to spend the week of Thanksgiving in Nashville with The Shoe Crew!    Addy and Bailey are just 4 months apart so they had so much fun playing together.  We got to meet Milly, our precious niece, who is already 5 months old.  Thomas and I especially enjoyed the time we got to spend with Matt and Jenny too.
In Addy's big girl bed
 These girls were princesses any time we were at home.  Here they are still waking up in the morning, but ready with their dresses and shoes.
 One rainy day, we took the girls to Monkey Joe's, an awesome jump house-slide-be crazy and have fun place.

 They loved climbing up and sliding down together.

Bailey had to warm up to the place just a little, but you would never have guessed that she was a little intimidated by the end of morning.  Here she is going down this huge slide all by herself!
Jumping around
Of course we had to eat at The Loveless Cafe (which Thomas just calls The Happy Place)!  They bring you a plate of their freshly made biscuits and jelly before your meal that are awesome.  We discovered that Bailey also loves The Happy Place when she decided to drink the jelly!

 Sweet Milly
 Happy Thanksgiving (or as Bailey said that morning, "Merry Trick or Treat!!")!  We spent the day at Nino and Joe Joe's house (Addy and Milly's grandparents) and had so much fun.  Nino had these great puppets for the girls to play with which you will see in the next few pictures.
Addy's cousin, Madelyn, Addy, Milly and Bailey
 Thomas and Matt with a lion running by.
 Sharing a delicious meal

The puppets were a big hit!
Sweet, smiley Milly
 After a nap, we all went outside to play.  The guys played football and the little ones rode Madelyn's bike, drove her car, or rode in the wagon.  We'll have to pull this picture out again in 14 years!

 Some of the girls
We had such a wonderful time getting to know Jenny's aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandparents too.  The Ivey and Brae families are sweet people and we were thankful to be included in their family for the day!