Christmas Tree Traditions

We love the holidays and all the traditions that come with them. It is such a wonderful thing to have our two precious girls with us to enjoy this wonderful Christmas Spirit. We always put the tree up right after Thanksgiving. So our tree was up and 100% beautiful by 11/27 this year. We have learned that our daughters love the tree and enjoyed putting on all the ornaments. We drank lots of homemade hot chocolate, listened to Christmas music, and really loved Emma's reaction to the decorations and Abigail's new words "OOH WOW". Both girls were reacting to all the decorations, music, and hot chocolate with this new phrase, it was adorable!

Mommy's Little Helper

 These are the goodies that Emma picked out to put in all the bags for her friends at school for Christmas!

Emma was a wonderful help putting all the gift bags together! I love getting into the Christmas spirit with my little helper : )

Indian Princess

11/18 Abby's 1st Time in a Walker

 Abigail wants to stand all the time and she has been working her leg muscles a bunch. This is her first time in the walker that we used with Emma and she loves it. She moves around and is still active on her play mat and exersaucer. Abigail is also sitting up for shorts period of time without support. I am also proud to report that as of Thanksgiving day our girl now has 2 teeth!

Thanksgiving Activities

 Poppa took Emma for a stroll around the neighborhood and her Dada followed to snap the pictures.

 Abigail Grace got some quality time being held and loved on by every family member in attendance.

 Emma Elizabeth enjoyed her game of pumpkin bowling with her Poppa outside in the front yard.

 Not to mention all the wonderful food that was homemade that both girls enjoyed.

All ending with naps due to full bellies and being all tuckered out from playing so hard.

Emma and the Pumpkins

Emma played a wonderful game of bowling with the pumpkins and her Poppa. She would roll them down the yard and Poppa would bring them back up to her. Emma loved being outside with her Poppa.

Thanksgiving 2011

We have so much to be thankful for, the most precious things in our lives, our two little girls. We had a really wonderful celebration at our house this year with our family. Our hearts are a little sad as this will be our last Thanksgiving in Aggie Land, but we look forward to this next chapter in our lives.

Abigail's 1st Tooth

 Abigail has been teething for a while now and we were wondering if a tooth was every going to show up! Well... tonight at bath time I was cleaning her gums and I felt it : ) She has gotten her first bottom tooth. A picture will soon follow this post, but baby girl wanted to go to sleep early tonight.

November Birthday Celebrations

4th William Housely

4th Tank - my new nephew (nick name)
20th Christian Maxey
21st LeeAnn Maxey
25th Julius Maxey
25th Shelbilyn Bibby

Play Time after Paint Time

On Saturday, November 12th my brother and his wonderful family came to help with some touch up painting and fan cleaning at our house. They were such a big help! We are very thankful for all of my families wonderful help getting us ready for this next chapter in our lives. This is some pictures of everyone in the backyard playing some catch and relaxing after working for 4 hours without a break.  I love you guys!!!