Merry Christmas!!

We had a great Christmas in New Orleans this year. Of course we missed all our family from Georgia. We had a marathon 6 hours of present opening on Christmas morning. Thanks to everyone for the great gifts!

I can't even begin to post all my favorite pictures, but here's a few. Check out the whole albumHERE

I snuck downstairs before the girls - SANTA CAME!!

SO excited about her fish castle
Elle loves her kitchen!
Getting ready to open gifts from Mommy and Daddy
Round 3 - from all our family
Pillow pets! Thanks Colin!
Remote controlled Pony. Does it get any better?? Thanks Gigi and Donk!
Elle loves Minnie! Thanks Coco and Grandpa!
She also loved the ribbons
In her element as a Cinderella bride. Thanks Coco and Grandpa!

Scarlett's School Christmas Party

Friday was Scarlett's last day of school before the Christmas break, so Elle and I got to come to her Christmas party. They sang us carols - Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, Happy Birthday to Jesus and We Wish you a Merry Christmas. So cute! Then we made a craft together.

Here's her craft

Playing pin the tail on Rudolph
Scarlett and her friends William, Olivia, Maddie and Kaley.
Scarlett and Mrs. Amy
Scarlett and Mrs. Laurie

Santa!!

Came out SO good!! I knew Scarlett would love Santa, but I was afraid of how Elle would react. Glad to see she loves him too!

My big 5 month old!

Elle is growing up! She turned 5 months old this week!

Here she is on her 5 month birthday

She's excited about her very first Christmas! She loves to talk to the tree.

And today she sat up all by herself for the first time!

I love this smile and shaky arm :o)

More from the weekend

We so enjoyed having all our family here! Here's some more cute pictures from the weekend. And I added more to the facebook album, so check this link again for more!

Happy 3rd Birthday Scarlett!

It's been quite a week!! Scarlett turned 3 on Wednesday! She celebrated at school by bringing Ariel cupcakes with sprinkles to her class. They gave her a birthday hat and sang and as a special bonus her birthday fell on show and tell day (her FAVORITE) and PE day which she also loves. We celebrated at home with presents and Coldstone cupcakes.

Today was her birthday party at the bounce place. We had a great turn out and Scarlett had the best time!!

All the presents!

Here's the album with all the pictures:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2855667&id=4921670&l=60c87bd1e8

Happy Thanksgiving

We were happy to spend the day eating delicious food with great friends!

Scarlett and Brooke (aka Sleeping Beauty and Snow White)

At the kids table
Baby Elle in her turkeys
The girls all dressed up for Thanksgiving!

Christmas, Already?

I am starting to get a little more in the holiday spirit now! I still want Thanksgiving and Scarlett's birthday first, but we are starting to do some Christmas stuff too. Saturday was Santa's big arrival at the mall, so I took the girls to see his grand entrance. Scarlett has been talking non stop about Santa, so she was THRILLED to see him. There were also plenty of other characters around for her to hug and talk to. All the characters marched in a parade through the mall up to Santa's sleigh in the center court and Scarlett got to high five Santa as he passed us. We also saw some candy canes (Scarlett calls them candy corns) on stilts, Rudolph, Frosty, Santa and Mrs. Claus, a band, a candy princess, Frosty and Build a Bear bunny.

Another Christmas highlight of the weekend was that I FINALLY finished Elle's stocking. Talk about just in time and I started in January. But it's done!

Scarlett's School Thanksgiving Party

Baby Elle and I went to Scarlett's school Thanksgiving party this morning. We saw all her friends and teachers and made a cute turkey craft.

Here's the 3 of us

Scarlett gluing away
Check out that cute turkey!!

Funny Quote by Scarlett

We are walking into school today and Scarlett says "I see Ms. Marka!". I said "Oh, what does she teach you?" (They have enrichment every day so when she talks about new teachers I know it's one of her enrichment teachers). Scarlett replies "She teaches me TV". Haha...so THAT'S how they teach 2 year olds Spanish. Dora. Of course!

Tutu and a tea party

Snow Angel baby

First thing in the morning on Sunday Scarlett needed a princess dress and got ahold of her left over 1st birthday napkins and set up a tea party.