Sugar and Spice & Everthing Nice...

Here are some January pictures of Lydia at 21 months old:

All dressed up and ready for outdoors:

Finishing up at bathtime:

Teaching her friends to pray:

I love all of the sugar and spice I see in Lydia! She is such a sweetheart that keeps us smiling!

Love those pigtails

Lydia is finally letting me put her hair up in pigtails! It has been such a battle in the past that I finally gave up on trying. Last weekend, Lydia's cousin Ally was visiting and had her hair in pigtails and I tried it with her here. Lydia was so excited to have hair that matched her cousin and now all I have to do is say the magic words, "Let's put your hair in pigtails like Ally" and it works!! I think she looks like such a big girl!

"These are a few of my favorite things..."

Brown paper packages tied up with bows,

baby doll bed,

custard, yum!

books,

dinner for two,

old and new (furniture made by Lydia's great grandfather for her mommy 20+ years ago and her grandmommie 50+ years ago added with some new dishes, food, and pots and pan)

basketball goal,

one of many new babies- good thing Lydia has a doctor kit for all those runny noses and colds they will have this winter!

AND...also Pappi!!! We are so thankful to our friend Laurie W. for finding our beloved Pappi so that he could enjoy Christmas with us!



And to think, we still have 3 more Christmas events to go! What a blessed little girl we have! Merry Christmas!

Seven Years of Bliss

Happy 7th Anniversary to a wonderful husband and best friend! I love you Josh!!!

Kasey Chambers Lyrics

Today is also my parent's 39th wedding anniversary! Happy anniversary to them too! We got to celebrate with them tonight with dinner at Maggiano's Italian restaraunt in Nashville. It is so good- I totally recommend it, as it was highly recommended to me!

Merry Christmas to ALL!

We wish you a Merry Christmas,

We wish you a Merry Christmas,

We wish you a Merry Christmas!
AND a happy New Year!

One week to go until Santa makes his apperance!

It is surely the "MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF YEAR."

Enjoy this special time with family and friends!

Oh You Better Not Pout!

I am working on addressing my Christmas cards this week. I love sending Christmas cards every year. I keep all my cards from previous years and look at them when I unpack the decorations. It is so nice to see friends' families who are close and those who are far and see how their family changes each year.

This year I was excited to get some pictures of Lydia made for our Christmas card. Nana bought Lydia a beautiful dress with a red sash for Christmas. I had high hopes of getting a picture of ALL 3 of us to send out this year. Josh and I were coordinating so well with our baby girl and I just knew we could get atleast one decent one of us all together. Well here is a preview:

Needless to say, the card that will be mailed out will only have Lydia. She decided that we didn't need to be in the picture with her! I am sure that we will cherish this picture (as Melissa D. suggested we keep it) and there will be many more photo moments like this with her and future children.

If you have a fun Christmas photo, like the above, I would love for you to share it on your blog!

Halloween Happenings

Lydia enjoyed her 2nd Halloween. She got to trick-or-treat with her cousins to the homes of her Great-Grandparents and Grandparents on Thursday. Then on Friday we enjoyed Trunk-or-Treating with our church family!

Lydia seemed to get so tickled seeing her friends and cousins all dressed up. Her favorite thing was to give candy back to the givers in "their" bowls. She was a very sweet princess and enjoyed wearing her costume, which will be great for dress up throughout the year!