Holly Jolly Happenings!

 Tonight we went to mom and dad's, ate dinner and dessert and helped with their tree.  Here are a few pictures.  There will be more to come and we hope to do tree tomorrow.


This is Cinderella with the first ornament that was killed this evening.   There were two.  I really thought there would have been more with my two girls on the loose.

 Stopping for snuggle time!  They are such cutie pies together!

And here is the death of Sleeping Beauty's gum.  She was jabbering and it fell out of her mouth.  She picked it up and went right back to chewing it!  :o/

First Santa Encounter of 2010

The other night my mom and dad had the kids for reasons I am not allowed to share.  It's silly really but I am just not permitted to blog about it by the husband.  Anyway, they look them to Chick Fil A for dinner before bringing them home to us and guess who was there?!

SANTA!!

My dad said the girls were SHOCKED.  

Sleeping Beauty wasted no time and began interrogating:

"What's he doing here?"

"Where's your mouth?  I can't see your mouth."

"Why's your hair white? Pa's hair is white too."

"Where's your reindeer?  I can't see them."


Santa told my mom that Sleeping Beauty "was going to be a handful."


Of course this left her sputtering, "Going to be?!"


I mean, dude.  She is NOW.  It's only gonna get worse.  ;)

Santa and lil Sleeping Beauty

And again - BFF's for sure!

Cinderella and Santa - It looks like he doesn't trust her!  Ha!

:o)  Good times were had by all!

Hopeless

I learned the other day that I am not hip with the slang lingo.  For one cannot be hip when one has to look up something on an urban dictionary website and THEN has to look up a word that is in the definition.


I'm hopeless.


Oh the shame.

Sleeping Beauty's Stashes

What I am about to share with you may scare you.  It scares us.


Sleeping Beauty has taken to hiding things under her bed.  It started a few weeks ago with the "Pixie Dust" gold make up she stole and then applied in the hidden darkness under her bed.


Shortly after that we found batteries and individually wrapped life savers.  You know, for emergencies and incase she needed to save a life...  :oP


Then there was Cinderella's collection of shark teeth - out of the container she so carefully keeps them in.  This almost did Cinderella in!


There was also the pencil and pencil sharpener she squirreled away.  Those were also her big sister's.


And lastly, my red nail polish.  Thank goodness she didn't get it open.  It was a bottle I hadn't seen in a while.


She is swiping stuff left and right.  These are just the funniest things she has taken.  She gets so spun up when we go in there to have a look to see what she has taken.


Which reminds me, I think I need to go take inventory now...

ThAnKsGiViNg 2010

We spent Thanksgiving 2010 at my mom and dad's house with them, my maternal grandma (AKA Mamaw) and my dad's sister Beth.  My brother had to work and came later and my sister and her husband had to go up North for a funeral.  We missed them.  :(

The table all set.  I think the sippy cup really adds something to the atmosphere.  ;)

 My pilgrim Cinderella (she made this at school) and my aunt.

 The King of the Crazies and all the mashed potatoes...

 Lil Sweetie.  King of the Crazies got up for a minute and she was fast in his place!

 At the dinner table he unbuttoned his shirt a bit.  It was so funny because Mamaw did a double take!

 Sleeping Beauty was sick a couple weeks ago and got sick AGAIN last Sunday.  She was put on medicines again and seemed to be doing better.  Then yesterday, after we were there for about an hour, she went downhill and she started feeling warm.  She didn't eat at all during the "feast."  (And didn't start really again eating until tonight.)  Poor little pie. We knew she wasn't feeling right when she refused food.  The child is usually all about eating!

Here she is with a thermometer:

 My gorgeous mom (AKA the best cook ever) and me.  :)

If you haven't tasted her cooking I am sorry for you.  Sooooo good!  We all loved it.  Well, those of us that felt like eating.  :o/

Poor lil nugget didn't want to eat so she stayed on the couch with her "Tappy."  She had it because she was feeling so awful.  :(

 Starting at the right is Cinderella, my aunt Beth, Mamaw, King of Crazies, me and my dad:  

 When my mom first took the bird out of the oven we were afraid it may be "Griswold-ish" but it really was the best ever!  And she's never messed up a turkey for as long as I can remember.

You remember the Griswold turkey, right?!

Then after we ate and my brother got off of work and came to eat, some raking, piling and jumping in the leaves took place.  The two girls and my brother dove in!

Lil Pie getting in on the fun!

My dad took this one. 

A new do?!

One of my favorites from the day:

She tried all three pies.  He has never been more proud:

We did get Sleeping Beauty to eat a few bites of pie and "chicken" later that night before we left:

Today she only ate Nerds (candy) and then tonight Cheez-Its, turkey and green beans.  Her fever broke and she was talking a mile a minute tonight.  I pray this mess is over and gone SOON!