Christmas Eve & Christmas Morning

Christmas Eve Service ~ It was a Retro Christmas, 1940's style, it was amazing! Everyone was dressed in the 1940's era. That's my favorite era so I had a fabulous time! We had a candle light service & Gracie was so sweet, she held up her candle and sang "Silent Night" and her little face beamed. Her first candle light service!


This is a new addition to our home. Todd and I said this is our Christmas present to eachother, however, I put money aside all year saving it for Gracie for something, whether it was gymnastic or dance lessons, and he found a great deal on this and so we used it for that! There is something to be said about having a piano in your home, playing it or hear it played and I didn't realize how much I'd missed it. Gracie loves it, plays it & makes up songs, so far it's about Wall-E or jingle bells! So it is a great gift for her as well.

Baking Cookies & Christmas Lights

WALL-E & EVA

Santa's Tree Farm

Roasting Hot Dogs

Making yummy Smores at the campfire!

Drinking diet coke...in a can! (the things you allow during holidays!)

Gracie's 1st horsie ride! I am calmly & sternly reassuring her she's fine and to sit, nice mommy. :)

Me: "It's okay...you're fine!" Gracie: "No I can't want it!"

Look at this cautious face.

Okay, she's feeling a little better, it's not so bad but won't let me go.


Hay ride through the tree forest.



Throwing hay & having tons of fun!







Nice do! It's so 80's, very fashionable.

Bunnies!

Sophistimicated?!

So no, these aren't RX glasses. Don't think I'm insane yet! For those of you who wear glasses & are wishing them away, you'll think I'm nuts but I've always thought glasses (well cute ones anyway) would be so fun to wear. Thankfully I still have 20/20 vision but I found a "reason" to get these (in the $1 bin at Target!) They only have 1.0 magnification and I use them at the end of my lash extensions to make sure I didn't miss a lash!

Gracie saw me in them for the first time today and had so much fun putting them on & off of me, she thought they were so cool. So I took a photo & sent it to Todd at work & what I wrote on the subject made it to the trash! Naughty naughty! I asked him in so many words if he needed to hire a secretary! Anyway, I'm just a big dork & this is for fun and one day when I don't have 20/20 vision I'll get to wear sparkley rhinestone ones! For now I'll just wear them during my lash services.

The Christmas Elves dancing...shouldn't they be making toys?...little slackers!

Wall-E, Space Shuttles, puppy, kitty & bunny oh my!

Gracie is inseparable with her puppy, kitty & bunny. First it was kitty from Ikea, then one day decided puppy (which she's had since she was born) needed to be her sidekick & this last week bunny was feeling left out. So these 3 go everywhere we go & they are with her most always wherever she is in the house. It was really cute at first and still is but seriously, one is enough, right? :) All day "where's my kitty?" "Where's my puppy?" I reply, "I don't know, where did you have it last?" A big "ummmmm, hmmmmm." So I help her & then when I find it I get a huge grin and a big "YYYYOOOUUUU found it!! Thank you mommy!" But in the car, she has to hold all 3 and will not let them go while I get her buckled in the car seat. That is frustrating. I do put my foot down and tell her she can only bring one in a store (sometimes none) and they'll wait for her. And she's good with that. So now she tucks them in around under her arms under her blankie at night, it' so sweet. So tonight I took a picture of her, kitty, puppy & bunny!


She drew a space shuttle today! I was impressed. She is still talking about the space shuttle going bye bye.


And Wall E, we can't forget about Wall E. She LOVES, ADORES him, doesn't stop talking about him how he went into outer space like the space shuttle she saw launch a month ago. I did remind her that he lived on planet earth where we do. If she grows up to be an astronaut I will understand! She goes around the house saying "Wall e's so silly!" With this big laugh, almost like she has a crush on him. And she'll say "I LOVE Wall E!" So today Todd and I decided to just go for it and we got her the remote control Wall E for Christmas. I can only imagine what her expression will be when she sees him sitting under the Christmas tree, that was really the big reason for me, to see her get so excited about him being in person. Or better yet I should stick him in her room for when she wakes up in the morning! Well if this is any indication how she'll pick her man one day, I have to say she's got good taste. He's cute, so sweet, romantic, brave, handy and very smart!

Dod Is So Dood!

I love love love the sweet sound of Gracie or any child sing. It is the sweetest, so unexplainable. And what's even cuter is how she mispronounces the words at this age. She's been singing God Is So Good for a while, then she'll get on a roll and really get loud and I want so badly to get her on video, "DOD IS SO DOOD!" But it won't happen because if ever I let her know I've heard her she says, "I not singing mommy!" And that's end of discussion. But it's her favorite, she also loves Jesus loves Me, her ABC's, and this other cute one from Veggie Tales, "Don't you know that God loves you" which is probably her 2nd favorite. And tonight during prayers she was lying on her back, folded her hands and put them above her chin and just smiled. Then later said "Love you, Jesus."