Monday, December 15, 2008

Pics and Parties for Christmas!


We wanted to have a good "Christmas-y" family picture for our Christmas cards this year, so we enlisted the help of our friends Josh and Jessica. They came over and played photographer and baby-attention-getter for our pics. It was quite a feat to get this little one to look at the camera and kinda smile. You see, she is a quite a wiggly-worm now that she is mobile! We managed to get a few decent ones. You can see more of them HERE.


Last Thursday we hosted our SmallGroup Christmas party. We had 16 adults, 2 toddlers, and 3 babies all crammed into our little home. It was a great time! We had lots of yummy food, a fun gift exchange and hours of chatting and just having a good time. I enjoyed the fact that I got to show of Addy and let her play with the other girls, but got to put her to bed in her own crib and then enjoy the rest of the night talking with the grown-ups and not having to worry about her. :o)

Here she is with Bella (9 mo), Lauren (2 yrs) and Shelby (5 wks):


We managed to use the timer and get an entire group picture . . . It turned out pretty well for such a big group! And we only took 2!


I have to tell you also about my little last minute project for the Christmas party. I decided Addy needed a holiday outfit, and I didn't want her to wear her "Christmas Dress" because it would be "too much" for our casual little party. So, I remembered seeing this cute little outfit at a little boutique in Tulsa and loving it:



So I decided to make my own Christmas version! I had a white onesie - ironed on the letters for "Jingle Belle" - sewed red tulle between green/white swiss dot ribbon - found a child-sized Santa hat at Walmart - there ya go! It definitely wasn't "too much" . . . . Do ya think? (Okay, so I know sometimes I go overboard with my girly girl and her froufiness and bows . . . but isn't it too cute! :o)



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1 comment:

Mocha Mama 24 said...

Hey!! I didn't know you had this blog too. I'll definitely have to keep checking it out. Addison is getting so big already!! How did you do the design on the sides? I found a cool website last night for the header but wasn't sure how to do stuff on the sides. The website I found was www.scrapblog.com Its pretty cool, not sure if you've seen it or not. Anyway, thanks for stopping by. I'll ad you to my list!