Christmas with Family

Once again we had a wonderful Christmas. We are so blessed...

Christmas Eve PE 3-D

The traditional Christmas morning picture.

Sally and Ruby

Mother/Daughter Weekend

The first weekend in December, Mom and I headed to Nashville for our 1st Annual Mother/Daughter trip with two of my childhood friends from AR. We headed to Franklin on Friday to do a little shopping while we waited on my friends to get in town. We ate at my favorite place then shopped in some of my favorite stores downtown...seriously a cute downtown...love it!

We then met up with them and ate at Cheesecake Factory...Catie had never been there. I thought it would be fun to start the weekend off with a little drive to look at lights. I just had to show them the ginormous Christmas tree...they loved it! No pics though. :( We then stopped at a house I went to last year...the family puts up tons and tons of lights in memory of their son. They give all donations to the hospital he was at. It gets pretty busy on their street, so they have people helping direct traffic and park the cars. We got out for a bit and took some pics before heading to the hotel.

Kelli and her mom

Once we found out where we were supposed to check in to the ginormous hotel, we made our way to our rooms. This trip was booked almost a year in advance...each one of us asked to be in rooms next to each other...they all said...no problem, I have it entered into the computer. Well, that was not the case when we got there and mom and I were not with the other two rooms. Once we got to ours...I was pretty ok with it! I had asked for a parking lot view...and got a garden view...sooooo pretty!! We left the curtains open a bit to let the twinkle lights sparkle into our room as we drifted off to sleep!!

The next morning we headed over to the Delta and had a nice breakfast right by the water...so peaceful. Too bad that can't be a Saturday morning treat every weekend!!

Oh, how I love this picture of us. :)

The moms had a nice time, too! :)

Such a great picture of Catie and her mom!

Too bad I didn't know about the character breakfast...I had a view of it from my room though. C. Brown is probably my most favorite cartoon...ever!! It is just too cute!

Waiting in line for ICE!!

I took tons of pictures of ICE...it was amazing...most are on my FB account if you need to see the rest!

I love how at the end of CB, Linus says, "That's what Christmas is all about C. Brown," and then ICE ended with ice sculptures of the Navity Scene. Again...awesome...if you haven't seen this one yet this year...go...it is really worth it!

Saturday night we headed over to see the Rockettes...I just love it! This was my second time and it was still just as good. I now want to see it in NYC!!! I did find the DVD that weekend and now can enjoy it anytime I want!

The moms after the show!

In front of the ginormous tree at the hotel.

Moms/Daughters in front of the tree.

I wanted a pic of us with the twinkle lights in the background...they were all so pretty!

We had a great weekend...much needed in so many ways! Can't wait for our next adventure together!

Merry Christmas!

Visions of Sugar Plums

Some of the sweet treats I have made for Christmas fun at work and with friends...

Merry Christmas Eve!!!

Christmas Big Brother/Little Brother

My cousin and her family welcomed another cute little boy to the world recently! She had asked me a few weeks before to make Christmas Big Brother/Little Brother shirts since he was due in December. I had already planned on making a big brother shirt but hadn't thought to make it with Christmas colors. I really like how it turned out and was excited to put the Christmas fabric to good use.

I had help with the Little Brother shirt! Thanks Melanie!

I have only seen one picture of the sweet baby and can't wait to see more with the two boys...maybe even in their shirts!!!!!

A Christmas Practice Session

One of my coworkers was nice enough to let me come over and take some pics of her sweet kiddos a couple of weeks ago...enjoy!

Sweet baby wanted to be held instead of down on the floor...I don't blame him but I do love the lights in the background! I have been so excited about Christmas pictures after buying a lens last winter!!

A little Christmas Present!

Sweet Dreams

More sweet dreams!

This might be one of my all time favorite pictures. Possibly because I love Christmas so much and to see it captured in the eyes of a child is even more magical! I just can't decide if I like black/white or color.

I hope everyone is enjoying Christmas and remembering the real reason for the season!!

Hoo Hoo Hoo!!

Just a little Christmas cheer...

The top shirt was made for Nekayeh's little girl since Nekayeh won my one and only contest/giveaway months and months ago!

This one is for sweet Adelyn for sharing her room with me when I stayed with them. I didn't have time to make it before I left and am still working on making matching pants...not sure if that will happen...but still hopeful!!!!