december maddness

this was the best christmas I remember having as an adult we had lots of family time, fun food and really got to enjoy teaching Gracie about baby Jesus. This has really been an incredible month and here is a massive update! For christmas my mother in law gave me a book "hello, cupcake" this was my first try to make cute cupcakes and i was pretty excited to show them off i don't very oftem doing creative baking so this was a blast!

Christmas was a blast we spent the day with my family doing a big "dinner" at 2:00 but the rest of the day the kids played with their toys we watched the barbie movie gracie got 3 times and just enjoyed family time it was amazing!!

Christmas this year was a blast christmas eve we spent playing in the snow then we came in to get ready to go to ryan's parents house for dinner then home to wait for santa!

Fin is crawling all over the house he loves his freedom but i am constantly chasing him trying to keep up with is curiousity is a full time job and yes he is eating the soap, what can i say at least he isn't a picky eater.... She loves the snow ans loves to play in it i am convinced that she just doesn't mind the cold at all (she definately gets that from her dad I am a huge wimp)

I love watching her get ready and with so many haloiday parties she was in girly heaven!!

Every year i want to try and get a picture in front of the tree this was our first year and i love it!

we celebrated ryan's 27th birthday this month is was so much fun and with Gracie going through such a princess phase she insisted on either this crown cake or a castle cake for his birthday and then was my big helper making it. Side note she is wearing her princess ariel dress that her grandma made her for halloween, she really wanted to be a mermaid so ry's mom made her this princess dress with a purple top and aqua bottom and she still wears it at least once everyday!!!

kiddos

It is such a fun and busy time of year things have been insane but I have to take just a minute to update a little bit about my kiddos they have become such good buddies and are growing up so much! Gracie is going through a crazy obsessed princess stage involving all things girly from curlers and lipgloss to high hill and every kind of dress she can find. A few nights ago she woke me up in tears because she was wearing her bell dress and wanted to change into her snow white one so we got up and found the snow white dress and the shoes (the loud plastic ones with sharp hills) the necklace and lipgloss we pulled her sides back and put a big red bow in her hair after a careful inspection in the mirror to make sure that everything was perfect she danced around a few times and then went peacefully back to bedstill completely decked out!!! Finley is as always completely perfect he has however decided to hibernate this winter i have never seen a baby sleep so much he wakes up around 8-8:30 is down for a nap by 10 sleeps until 1 is back down by 2:30 we wake him up for dinner at 5 and then we try to keep him up until 7:30 but sometimes he is too sleepy and can't last that long!!!! I want to hibernate too!!

november??

wow has november already come and gone! this in insane sadly we've lost our camera so I don't have pictures to post an update but wow i loved november even if it went way too fast despite everyone i know being sick through at least part of the month it was a blast and ryan and i got to go see the movie blindside which i loved!! and now it's december and i am ready for some winter fun!! i'll post pictures as soon as i figure out how to with our new camera