Andrew turns 2!

 Last weekend we had my nephew, Andrew's 2nd birthday party! Since my sister says that I have no posts about her family on here, I thought I would dedicate this post to Andrew :)

I should mention that my sweet sister is a preacher's wife, a full-time nurse, and the mother of 4 children so she stays pretty busy (her smallest child is only 3mo old!). We are very, very different when planning parties. I get a little obsessed over my girls party and start planning at least 6 months in advance. She's very laid back about the whole thing. She usually has a small family party and keeps it really low-key. Maybe I could learn a thing or two from her :)

Back to the party...

Andrew absolutely LOVES Toy Story, so he had a Buzz Lightyear party. I asked her if I could do the cake since I received a Wilton cake decorating set from my mom for Christmas and was very eager to try it out. It turned out pretty good, and I think Andrew was pleased with it!

All the cousins (minus Titus, Seth, & Baby Lydia)

I had to sneak a picture of sweet baby Lydia in here :)

Happy Birthday Andrew!!

My Little Star!

Anyone who is around Maggie long enough knows that she definitely likes to sing and dance. Whenever our family is over, it doesn't take long before she has everyone sit down so that she can perform a ballet dance, gymnastics, or a song. It's adorable and I have TONS of video! I won't bore you with all of it, but I thought I would share this video with you. It's of Maggie and her Sunday School class singing for the church during our last 5th Sunday Singing. We were so proud-she was the loudest one :) I hope you enjoy it!

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!

We had a wonderful Christmas! I don't know about everyone else, but I'm still tired! Anyhow, we are so blessed to have such wonderful friends and family to celebrate the birth of our Savior with.

We had a VERY busy day! We woke up bright and early so that the girls could open up presents and play a little bit before church. As always, we were late to church, but enjoyed a nice service with our church family. Then, we headed to Gannie & Papa (Todd's Mom and Dad)'s house and had a wonderful lunch and the girls enjoyed opening more presents. Around 4:30pm, we headed to my sister's house to spend time with my side of the family and the girls opened up even more presents! Whew, I'm getting tired just remembering the day...

The whole set-up

Maggie with her Scooter-she was so excited!

I was so glad that we captured this moment!
She has been waiting a Little Mermaid "Buddy" for a long time.

Maggie and her Tag Books

I think Lucy was just happy to be involved in all the excitement

Lucy with her Dollhouse-she loves it!

Chewy finally just laid down among all the toys-we saved her presents for last.

As I mentioned, we had a wonderful day! I hope your family did too! We also had a great, relaxing New Year's Day. I'm very excited about this coming year and happy to see what it brings for our family.

'This the Season!

Happy Holidays! Wow! I've just skipped over Thanksgiving and now it's almost Christmastime! It seems like we always have so much going on. Maybe my New Year's Resolution should be to take it easy :). We are so excited about Christmas this year! We put our Christmas tree up towards the beginning of the month and recently started adding presents to it. Maggie and Lucy are so excited about everything!

We were especially excited that we were able to take Maggie to see The Nutcracker at our local performing arts center. She is really into ballet and dancing altogether, so she was beside herself with so many ballerinas to watch. We stayed after the show was over, so she was able to talk with the performers and take pictures.

We just had our Church Christmas party last Sunday night. As always, it was a fun and happy event-Santa even showed up! Maggie was a little hesitant, but eventually talked to Santa and took a couple of pictures.

                                     

Fall Family Fun!

October was another hectic month for us! I think we had something going on every weekend, plus we had a gross stomach virus that made it's way through our home.

We made our way to Southern Bell Farm, where the girls had a wonderful time playing and looking at all the animals.

                 

                      

 
    
Then we had our Fall Festival at church...we were all just getting over being sick at this point, so there weren't many pictures. Then on to Trick-or-Treating...we decided to go out early so the girls could still get to bed early. I thought they looked sooo cute!

Vacation, Vacation!

Well, August came and went very quickly! To be honest, we had so much going on, I barely remember it! Now, September is here and almost gone! At least I have a couple of pictures to show for it :) We just got back from our family vacation from Myrtle Beach, SC. Although my sister and her family had to leave mid-way through the trip, it was still nice to get away.
 Here are a couple of pictures: