Best Christmas Yet

Christmas with a 2 11/12 year old makes for

one VERY fun Christmas!

This little girl had been talking about Santa

bringing her a scooter for about 6 months

and sure enough, Santa did not disappoint!

She was so excited, that we took it out for a

spin around the neighborhood in our jammies!

Our little fam on Christmas morning

Then it was time to get dressed and pretty for church!

After a short and sweet church service it was

back home, and back in our jammies to open the

rest of our presents!

She was obsessed with opening presents,

she even opened most of mine and Brandon's too!

After each present she opened she'd say

"thank you so much everyone!"

haha what a sweet girl!

In the pile of wrapping paper!

I tried out my camera on manual which hardly

ever happens, but thanks to some help from

Pinterest on changing the settings we captured

these sweet pictures!

Ad admiring the Christmas tree

Although we missed being with family on

Christmas Day it was still the best Christmas

yet. This little girl of ours made it so much fun!

Her favorite part: singing happy birthday to baby

Jesus and getting to blow out the candle!

Only one more month till it's her candles she'll be

blowing out! (where did my baby go?!)

It's beginning to look a lot like...

CHRISTMAS!!

Just in case you weren't lucky enough

to receive one of these in the mail

(that means I don't have your address)

Here is our Christmas card:

We made the long trek up to the

North Pole...

But it was well worth it, Ad had

a serious order of business to conduct

with Mr. Claus himself.

This little girl wanted to make sure

Santa got the scooter memo loud and clear!

We also let Addyson start in on our

gingerbread house tradition. Usually

the couples in my family do a competition

and the kiddos were always too small to join in.

No competition this year, but Addyson is

practicing for next year, so get ready Thevs!!

We are MORE than excited for Christmas,

especially because this is Addysons first year

to really get into it!

Although it has made me realize how much

I miss Georgia!!

The Happiest Place on Earth

Well last weekend we headed to sunny California

for a much needed get-away!

Destination: Disneyland!!

This little girl will be 3 next month (tear!!)

so we wanted to go one more time while she

was still free! Because we're cheap like that!

This year she had a BLAST meeting all the characters

a big improvement from last year,

where this was as close as she'd get to Pluto!

We met up with our good friend Minnie

Ad LOVES Minnie

Then we headed over to Mickey's house where

we were shocked and surprised at how short he was!!

We are not tall people, but Mickey made us look

like giants!

Then it was off to see the princesses!

We got to meet Arielle, who loved the "A"

on Ad's shirt

Then Cinderella, which is Addyson's favorite!

(like mother like daughter! Cinderella was

my favorite when I was little too!)

And Snow White

Who was surprisingly the same Snow White

we met last year!

Then, because her Daddy loves her, we stood in

line for 30 minutes to meet the one and only...

Tangled!!

aka Rapunzel

Addyson couldn't stop talking about the

pretty flowers in her hair!

Now that we had pics with the celebrities

it was time for more rides!

Dumbo with Dad

And with Mom

Tea cups!

They had an awesome Christmas parade with lots of

characters, and we had front row seats!

It was Ad's favorite part of the day!

After a few more rides we called it a day!

Until next time Disneyland!

We love you!