Merry Christmas!!

Merry Christmas from our family to yours!!

May your holiday be filled with Gods love!

Cookies for Santa

Number 23 on our advent calendar was to make cookies for Santa! Addi was beyond excited and wanted to get started right away. 

So while Saylor was napping we whipped up some sugar cookies.

Can you tell which ones were her favorite? 

After they cooled we decorated them...

Poor Santa... He may gag from all the icing and sprinkles ;) 

But Addison sure did have fun!! 

Merry Christmas!! 

"For unto us a child is born.."

Isaiah 9:6

Life catch up in iPhone pics

Here is a look at our life through iPhone pics.....

Having fun cheering on the hogs!

Thursday night Addison spent the night at my parents. They met Uncle Kyle to decorate cookies! 

Went to the nutcracker Friday night. 

Saturday, we celebrated Christmas with Brent's parents. We made ginger bread houses ..

And Addi loved opening presents! She is at such a fun age for Christmas this year. 

Sunday we headed to church in our Christmas outfits :) 

Then over to Brent's grandparents for Christmas. Addison always loves going and playing with her cousin Lucas! 

We had a fun busy weekend! 

Merry Christmas! 

"Trust in The Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding"

Proverbs 3:5

Nutcracker ballet 2013

Every year, my mom and I have made it a tradition to go to the nutcracker ballet at our local performing arts center. This year I was beyond excited because it was the 1st year Addison was old enough to join in! 

We went to dinner at a New Mexican restraunt then headed to the show! 

Addison did pretty well for sitting still that long for the ballet. We left a few minutes early because she informed us she was done.

 but...We had so much fun! 

The entire way home Addison told me how much she loved it and when she is big like me she is going to "do that!"

I look forward to many more girls nights and Saylor being able to join in, in a few years!! 

Merry Christmas! 

A Busy Few Weeks

 I feel like our schedule has been packed with fun Christmas activities and only more to come in the next few weekends.

A few Sundays ago when we had all the snow, we broke out for a little Christmas Party with a few of my high school friends. HALLELUJAH.. all of us moms where ready to get out! 

We always have so much fun with this group and love getting all our kiddos together!

Friday night Brent and I headed to our small group party. 

Like our outfits?? 

I love doing life with these women! 

We have so much fun together and I'm thankful for each one of them.

Saturday was a big day... we celebrated my older brother, Kyle, graduating from College! 

We are so proud of him and excited to see where this journey takes him. 

Addison got to open a few gifts from them and had a blast!

Sunday night, we headed over to Brent's Grandparents house for Christmas. 

Addi LOVED what she got and we all enjoyed visiting with each other. 

I am so thankful for this time of year.
Merry Christmas!

Baby Dedication

December 1st was a special day. 

We had the honor of dedicating Saylor at our church.  

By dedicating Saylor we acknowledge God's sovereignty not only over her but also us as parents.

We ask for prayers for grace and wisdom in raising Saylor. Brent and I pray we are good examples, we discipline according to Gods word and pray earnestly for both of our girls!

We pray that Saylor one day trust Jesus as her Lord and Savior, and that she relays completely on him. 

That she will .... "Walk before God in the light of life." Ps. 56:13

We Love you so much sweet Saylor Brooke and can't wait to see Gods big plans for your life!

"Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it."

Proverbs 22:6

Winter Wonderland

Thursday all the way through Friday it snowed and iced. A total of 10in at our house! We had one little girl that was beyond excited and of course had to go out every chance she got..

With cabin fever setting in we tried to stay busy doing fun things around the house. 

Brent brought home a gingerbread house from work one night for us to do. 

I think Brent and I had more fun then A decorating it. She was more interested in eating the candy.

We have snuggled a lot by the fire watching Christmas movies... which I have to say has been my favorite part.

Made snow ice cream... which surprisingly Addison loved!

Saturday, we broke out of the house for a few hours to go visit Santa. Cabelas does free pictures every Saturday and Sunday from 1-5. .. and they turned out beyond cute!! :)

Addison was so excited and talked Santa's ear off about what she wanted for Christmas and was really interested in where his reindeer were! ha

The snow is absolutely beautiful and with the Christmas season being so busy, its been nice the weather has made us slow down, stay home together as a family and enjoy moments we will never get back with our girls being little....BUT I have to say snow day #7 today this momma is ready to get out of the house!!! 

Melt snow Melt!

Advent Calendar

This is our 2nd year to do the advent calendar and Addison is LOVING it! 

Every morning she checks to see what fun things we are doing for that day. 

I also found a reading plan to do each day going through the Jesus storybook bible!

Here is the list of what we are doing in no order...

1. Chocolate Advent Calendar

2. Christmas cookies with friends

3. Wrap Presents

4. Christmas Story time at the library

5. Decorate gingerbread house

6. Celebrate Daddy's Birthday!

7. Go see Santa

8. Send a card to a friend

9. decorate a ornament

10. watch christmas movie in pjs

11. make teacher gifts

12. deliver a sweet treat to the neighbors 

13. Night at Grandparents

14. Get hot coco and Drive around to look at lights

15. Donate 2 toys to the compassion center

16. Dance party ( Guess who picked this one?? ha) 

17. Bring cookies to Daddy's work

18. Make a fort and eat dinner in it

19. Daddy daughter date night

20. See the Nutcracker Ballet

21. Christmas craft

22. Read a christmas story

23. Bake cookies for Santa

24. Make a Happy Birthday Jesus cake!

25. Celebrate Jesus

AND 

here is the list in order for the Story book bible...

1. The Story and the Song

2. The beginning

3. The terrible lie

4.A new beginning 

5.A giant stare case to Heaven

6. Son of laughter

7. The present 

8. The girl no one wanted

9. The forgiving prince

10. God to the Rescue

11. God makes a way

12. Ten ways to be perfect

13. The warrior leader

14. The teeny-weenie.. true king

15. The young hero and horrible giant

16. The Good Shepard 

17, A little servant girl and the proud general

18. Operation "no more tears"

19. Daniel and the scary sleepover

20. Gods messenger

21. Get ready!

22. He's here

23. The light of the world

24. The king of all kings

We may not get to them all but as long as Addison learns the true meaning of Christmas we have accomplished our goal! 

Looking forward to a fun December!

Merry Christmas

The angel answered, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God.

Luke 1:35

5 on Friday

Today I'm Linking up for 5 on friday! 

1. Loving getting to dress the girls In sweet Christmas outfits... 

But this is real life... Haha 

2. We got and are still getting snow and Addison is loving it! 10+ inches at our house!

3. We celebrated Daddy's 26th birthday yesterday! Love doing life with this man-through the good times and the hard, glad God chose us for each other! 

4. Ginger came back to our house and we have been having fun finding her every morning! 

5. We dedicated this sweet girl at church! Praying Brent and I bring her up loving The Lord and teaching her to put him above everything else! ( blog post to come) 

Happy snowy Friday!! 

Happy birthday Brent!!

So blessed to call you mine!! Your girls are crazy about you!! 

Happy 26th birthday- We love you!! 

Look who's Back...

Thanksgiving morning we had one very excited little girl....

Ginger came back from the North Pole to visit!! 

We had a fun little welcome back breakfast!

  she wrote out where we were suppose to sit with chocolate chips...

 And even brought a special letter and gift for the girls!

 Can you tell she LOVED it?

We try to do fun things for Christmas with the girls like the elf and Santa but Brent and I always want Addison and Saylor to know the true meaning of Christmas- the birth of Gods son! Here is the letter Ginger wrote to the girls- 

Addi & Saylor 

Two if my favorite little girls. I am so excited to be back to celebrate Christmas with you. Most importantly to celebrate the true meaning, the birth of Gods son... JESUS! I'm here to help you ( mommy and daddy too) to remember the important parts of Christmas: Jesus, Gods love, and our job to share it with others. I'm so excited to be here! 

Ginger

Ps. Remember to obey your parents so I can come back everyday! :) 

( of course had to throw that in somewhere.:) ) 

Now I just have to think of fun things to do with Ginger everyday! ;) 

Happy December! 

Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel.

Isaiah 7:14