Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!

I hope you all had a Merry Christmas! We had a pretty good one here... but we sure did miss Daddy. It was really hard to have him gone and we can't wait until next year when he will be home with us! But here are some pictures of the girls and all their fun times! :)
The first 2 pictures are from Christmas Eve... the girls are dressed up in their pretty dresses!

Here are the girls in front of the present spread! They aren't all for them! Promise!

Chloe got an Ariel dress up from Nana and Papaw and she started to get undressed as soon as she opened it! She has worn it every day since Christmas!

The best present of all! :)

Ireland picked out Papaw's present all by herself and she was so excited when he opened it! She was telling him all about it in this picture!
The rest of the pictures are of Ireland opening presents... her face was priceless and she loved everything she got!

Excited beyond words when she opened her Dora saves the Snow Princess toy from Gran!

Well, I hope you liked the pictures! The girls had lots of fun and we were very blessed this year! Thanks to everyone who sent us presents! We love you all very much! The only thing missing was Chris! Next year we will have the perfect Christmas with Daddy being home! :o)

Christmas Cookies for Santa!

Here are some pictures of the girls making some Christmas cookies for Santa. Nana helped them a lot and they had lots of fun! She even let them decorate with frosting and sprinkles! Chloe had a lot of fun with the sprinkles! She got a little messy! Ireland's favorite thing was frosting the cookies with a REAL knife! :) She thought it was the coolest thing when Nana handed her a butter knife to spread the frosting with!
So I included all the pictures of that... my favorite is the picture of the table and the aftermath of Chloe... oh, and Santa loved his cookies!

Finally Thanksgiving pictures!

So here are the Thanksgiving pictures I said I would put up... I didn't take many pictures. I was too busy cooking my first big Thanksgiving! :) But here are the ones I did get and I hope you all enjoy! Sorry they are kind of late... but better late than never!

Ireland playing with Auntie Robin... Robin is so great at playing with Ireland! So good actually, that Ireland thinks that is the main reason Auntie Robin shows up... just to play with her! Ireland looks mad in this picture... but I promise they were having fun! :)

Silas was super happy all day... like always! But I thought he was extra cute in this shirt... maybe cause i bought it for him or something... but he looks cute in everything!

Ireland got to pick out her bow on Thanksgiving... its kind of big!!! :)

This is the outfit that Chloe started the day in... she wanted so bad to wear her swimming suit and I didn't have the time to argue with her! So this was the compromise! :)

And this is how she ended... she is so funny!
We had a great Thanksgiving... Chris got to call and that made it even better... the only thing that was missing was him being here with us... but that will have to wait until next year I guess! We have so much to be thankful for and we are a blessed family!

Gingerbread Houses

On Thursday it was pretty snowy and cold out so we decided to stay home and have a nice day just hanging out... Well, to keep the kids occupied during the day, we made some "gingerbread" houses out of graham crackers! The girls loved it and had lots of fun! My sister, mom, and I each made our own house too... so here are some pictures of our fun project!