Busy, Busy, Busy

Tomorrow we move from our big 5 bedroom house in Manteo to an itty bitty townhouse in Kitty Hawk! I am super excited but nervous at the same time. This week we had some beautiful days and both girls had such a blast running all over the yard. That is the main thing I will miss. But Kitty Hawk has several amazing parks and it is literally maybe a minute to Madeline's school. So I won't be driving 30 minutes each way to get her to preschool!! The girls will have a mermaid themed room. I am just hoping Madeline will be happy there!! When you make such a big downsized move you realize how much JUNK you have and need to get rid of! It is hard. Taylor has been gone all week and won't get home to help until Wednesday. My parents came down to assist with some babysitting! Hopefully this move will go smoothly!

Catching Up on Lacey Reese's First Birthday

Madeline and Santa

Taylor had stole my bottled orange soda. I said, "give that back!" Madeine said, "Stop Momma, thats Daddys!" I said, "Nope thats Mommas!" "NO!" "Momma is going to tell Santa.." She walked over, grabbed the soda and told Taylor, "Opps thats Mommas!!"

Glitter Pine Cone Mobile

This afternoon Madeline and I made glitter pine cone mobiles! She was so excited to get them all done that most of the ones she did didn't have enough glitter on them! Oh well, its the experience right?! We did gold and red pine cones! You need spray adhesive, glitter, pine cones and bags (plastic or paper.) Spray the adhesive onto the pine cones, place in bag, add glitter and SHAKE!

'tis the season!

It is finally December!! And even more importantly it is finally getting cold! I am so ready for snow and frost to kill all of these mosquitos at our house!! Both of my girls have been sick this week. Madeline has double ear infections and Lacey Reese has croup. No fun and no sleep. We did get to go see Santa last week at Kites with Lights in Nags Head. Madeline asked for a puddle.. yep like the one outside! That is all she wants for Christmas. I guess it is either a good thing or a sign that she has too much already!
We have also baked some sweet treats! We baked sugar cookies that we rolled in sprinkles! What a messy fun time that was!

Tomorrow morning Madeline and I are headed to a cookie exchange. Like I mentioned earlier I have two sick kids and my husband has been at work the past two days so I did not make cookies. Instead we made these sweet treats! They are a pretzel, a Rollo candy and a Christmas colored M&M. You could also do it with Hersey Kisses and I think it would taste best with a Rollo and pecan.. aka a Christmas turtle! Yum!!

Thanksgiving 2011

We had such a great Thanksgiving this year! We spent it with friends who live out in Grandy, which is a much more rural area than where we are! The house was packed with good friends and a lot of kids for Madeline to play with! She had such a great time! We packed the kids sized picnic table and brought them some paper for coloring and paper airplane making! We even got a family picture which rarely happens! We had lots of great friends and food! Madeline had 3 friends her age that she got to run outside with and do lots of playing inside! We are so lucky to live in such a beautiful area and be blessed with such great people in our kids life!



..as you can see, Lacey takes her time getting ready and likes to make it known that Hurricane Lacey made landfall!

Recent Madeline Quotes

Madeline met Santa and asked him for a puddle..

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"I love you baby." -Mama
"I not a baby." -Madeline
"No, but you're my angel." -Mama
"I not an angel, I a barbie!" -Madeline