Christmas 2015

Well Christmas 2015 has come and gone, always so quickly it seems!  The morning started off right with pictures of these cuties from Norfolk:

Then I got moving early cause we have the family come over for Christmas breakfast.  My job was making pancakes and of course, I had to create a few Mickey Mouse ones, keeping the tradition alive!

We had a special guest this Christmas, Scott and Trudy brought over their new puppy, Brooklyn!  What a precious little girl she is; we all enjoyed getting to snuggle and love up on her!

Of course we had to get a family photo too before everyone was onto the next stop:

Andy, Mom and I went over to visit Ms. Nannie as well:

Then the day after Christmas, we were up early to go and visit the James.  Where we did Christmas take two:

Thanks Auntie Lala for the cash register!

Beginner Pogo Stick

Kinetic Sand two minutes after opening, all the colors mixed together already!

I'm a big deal!

And of course you gotta love a Christmas when you can play outside without many clothes on....

Yet, somehow Gaga was still very cold:

Corbin was loving his grabber toy:

And I got him this cool fort making kit, that I put together during nap time.  It makes the structure than you cover it in sheets!

Tiffany sporting her new shirt and opening a present:

Tiffany & Josh

We were able to grab a family photo even too, with most everyone smiling (Garrett is actually balling though it sorta looks like a smile in this picture);

And not to be outdone on cuteness, Mr. Holden was more adorable than ever:

On Sunday morning, Josh and I had planned to take all three kids to the zoo, but as it was two of them were being crabby, so I ended up going with the only behaved child, Holden.  My friend, Anna met up with us there to see:

giraffes

elephants

kangaroos

Humans, oh wait that's us!

he went in voluntarily, I should say

Just showing the turtle a little love!

Anna and Holden

Who you looking at?

Smile!

I just imagine this tiger thinking, hmmm all those kids through that window look mighty tasty!

Back in Richmond, CJ and I met up for lunch and a mall walk and ran into this handsome fella:

And to finish off the holidays extra bright, Allison was in town, so we were able to grab our favorite Mexican and catch up and share life together, love these girls:

I only hope 2016 will hold as many special memories as 2015 has had.  Signing off until next year....Happy New Years!

Woodland Baby Shower

Erica and I decided to throw a baby shower for Sara, our old roomie!  Deciding on a theme was step number one and after pouring over Pinterest and Etsy, we landed on the cutest little shower theme ever--a Woodland Baby Shower theme!  So we were off on the planning stages.  Erica is like me with themes, but even better, so this was a fun duo to plan a shower together.

Acorn cookies:

Chicken Salad Rolls

Pinecone cheese ball:

Make your own Mimosa bar:

Apples and Dip:

Homemade Cupcakes:

The most adorable baby shower favors ever:

Smores Trail Mix:

Gift Table:

Woodland Water:

Oh Baby sign:

All in all, it was a super cute theme and even better than the theme was getting to reconnect with these ladies, became friends in 2001 and 14 years later we are still going strong!