Christmas In Conroe

This Christmas, mommy and daddy told me all about Santa. They also told me all about Baby Jesus and how Santa brings presents on Christmas to celebrate Baby Jesus's birthday. My favorite Christmas movie this year was Polar Express! I probably watched it 20 times over the course of the season! This prompted me to want to drink a lot of hot chocolate and to ask for a bell and a train for Christmas! Luckily, I was a pretty good girl this year and Santa brought exactly what I asked for, thanks Santa! It was so fun putting out the food for the reindeer and cookies and milk for Santa. When I woke up on Christmas morning, there was a train set up and ready to play with. But I was actually more interested in checking to see if the reindeer ate the food I left! So I got bundled up to go outside with Gramps to check. Sure enough the reindeer like my concoction of granola and glitter I left for them!

I don't really understand the concept of next Christmas being a year away so I figure I better be on my best behavior all the time. The other day, Annabelle was acting up (surprise surprise) and I said "Annabelle, you betta be good or else Santa not gunna bring you no more more presents!" Thats right, I look out for my sister :)

Here we are all dressed up in Santa Hats! 

All the girls, dressed up for mass! We won't talk about what happened at Christmas mass. Lets just say we didn't make it to the end and Mommy and Daddy weren't too happy...

We love our Grandma and Gramps!

Mommy, Me, Aunt Tisty, and BelleBelle

The whole gang! Good picture Great-Grandma! Congratulations on your engagement Aunt Tisty and Ian!!!

Me on Christmas morning, thank you Santa!

Checking out our new choo choo train set.

Gramps being goofy :)

Want some hot chocolate mom?

Getting Ready for Christmas

Oh my goodness, I am in a dreamland. I don't know how I missed all of this last year but Christmas is the best. thing. ever. How could you not love Christmas trees, hot chocolate, presents, christmas movies, decorating, sugar cookies, grandparents, santa, lights, more presents, parties, dressing up... I could go on forever! Some of the things that have been most special to me this season are: moving the angel on our advent calendar each day, saying prayers and then opening the doors to the other advent calendar with daddy each night, hearing the story of baby Jesus before going to bed, and watching the polar express. I LOVE that movie. I have seen it almost once a day since the christmas season began and now all I want for Christmas is a train set! Good thing Santa knows what he's doing. Here are many many pictures to give you a glimpse into our special Christmas season celebrations.

Decorating our mini-silver-and-pink Christmas tree from Aunt Cat!

A quick family Christmas Pic before heading to KHA Christmas party.

All dressed up!

Christmas Cuties

Mommy's Favorite Color!

More Christmas dresses from Aunt Cat, we are ready to party!

 Before the Tanton Christmas Party.

Decorating Sugar Cookies at Anna Grace's House

We climbed up to the top of the fort all by ourselves! yikes!

Early Christmas in Dallas.

Yay, we got a family picture after Mass!

Adventure at the Gaylord.

Exchanging presents with Eleanor.

 Locked on the Polar Express.

Halloween

I love Halloween! It is my new favorite holiday! Lets not discuss the fact that these days every holiday is my new favorite holiday! This year I am able to understand and enjoy them so much more. What I love about Halloween: the goodies that Aunt Cat brought including the witch and pumpkin pez dispensers (my first experience with pez!), the adorable halloween outfits, the wooden witch masks with paint, the glow sticks, the fancy nancy halloween book and more! I also loved watching the bubble guppies halloween episode, I think my count is up to about 12 times that I have seen it, I have practically memorized every word! I also loved having friends over and then going trick or treating. I ran so fast to each house that mommy couldn't even snap a good picture! Annabelle got really into it as well. She wanted to keep up with the big kids and kept squealing in excitement! Every night since Halloween we have gotten to eat one piece of candy after dinner but tonight I noticed that our monogrammed pumpkin treat bags were gone and I could have sworn there was lots of candy left in them. I'll have to have a talk with mommy about that, but until then enjoy the few pictures we were able to get!

Festivals and Pumpkins!

A Lazy Fall Day at Home

We were mesmerized by the Enchanted music video on the computer!

More tea parties to be had :)

St. Max Fall Festival

Hallie's favorite thing: the jumpy house and slide. Belle's favorite: the petting zoo!

Pumpkin Patch in Flower Mound

We couldn't get a good picture of everyone so lots of individual poses had to suffice.

Yay for Pumpkins!

Hanging out on the Porch after the Rain.

We couldn't go out in the wet grass so we made do with what we had! 

The girls with the Girls!

We love our Grana and Aunt Steph! 

Back to Busy

Mommy is back to work and we are back to Cheryl's, its a busy time of year! Annabelle and I still love going to Cheryl's and love all the friends we have there. I have been a super grouch in the mornings. I put poor daddy though a lot, I guess I am not a morning person like mommy. Annabelle is saying and repeating more words by the day! My vocabulary is also growing, just ask mommy, I do not stop talking for a single second on the way home from school!

Mommy decided to record some of the silly things I say so that she can get a good laugh when I am older. Here is a peek at her list:

Hallie-isms 2.5 years old

-         We were playing scrabble and Ian nonchalantly leaned over to give Christy a quick kiss. A minute later grandma comes to sit with Hallie and Hallie says to her: “Ian kissed Tisty like this ‘muah’” We didn’t know she was watching them or that she knew how to say Ian’s name!

-         Jason was trying to tickle Hallie and she was getting frustrated. I told Jason, “You better not push her buttons babe”. Then Hallie runs over to Grandma and says: “Grandma, Daddy pushed my buttons”

-         We had the Today Show on during their summer concert series. The Zac Brown band came on and we started dancing around the room to the song ‘Chicken Fried”. Before I knew it I could hear Hallie singing: “cold beer on a Friday night” Oh no!

 

-         An observation one morning: “Mommy drink coffee mommy happy?”

-         We were discussing going to the zoo one day. I told Hallie that the last time we went to the zoo, I was pregnant with Annabelle. The next day Annabelle was yelling in the car. Hallie sternly says: “mommy, put Annabelle back in your tummy!”

-         Driving in the car on the way home from school we were talking about family members. Then hallie asks: “Does Tisty love Ian mommy?” Where did she come up with that!?!

-         Hallie had a bad morning. She didn’t want to wake up and she didn’t want to go potty or get dressed. She yelled at Jason and told him she didn’t love him. On the way to Cheryl’s she decided to list off the people she DID love: “ I love mommy, dad-dad (granddad), gramps, blake, and casey” Not sure how she left off both grandmas and chose to include my parents’ dog!!!

Recent Pictures:

New Car:

 Playtime:

 New Tinkerbell PJ's:

 Painted toes and fingers:

 Awesome Hair:

Luau at Anna and Julia's:

Videos!

Words we've tried and/or mastered :)
Annabelle: mommy, daddy, apple, thank you, hallie
Hallie: (new words that mommy loves!) octagon, pentagon, hexagon and decagon

Soccer skills! Hallie dribbles and Annabelle shows off a nice throw in :)

August Days

Annabelle wants to be just like me! If I am wearing 'big girl' panties, then by golly, she will be wearing big girl panties!

At Liam's house, we got to have indoor fun playing with colored rice! Annabelle and I loved mixing the colors and stirring with a spoon but Liam had something else in mind! He liked throwing the rice and trying to eat it, oops! So a creative indoor idea turned in to a big mess, thank you Jenn for making and cleaning this fun project!

Girls 'working' with their daddy. Annabelle is helping play with daddy's new nook and I am helping daddy with his drawings for work! 

A rare family picture! Putting on Mickey Mouse always helps :)

Sisterly Love

Check out my new leopard silver shoes with pink bows! I am very proud of them and want to wear them everyday.

Slip-n-slide fun! If you are outdoors in Texas in August, it better involve water!!!