11 Months

Months are flying by like seconds!!
Here is bug at 11 months! Here is Addie at 4 years and 3 days!

Addie was making her laugh after we took these pictures!

Happy Birthday Princess Addie!

We had a Cinderella party for Addie's 4th birthday! I really wanted to do it low key. I feel like the kids don't notice the pinteresty things. I enjoy going to pinteresty partys and freaking out about them but I don't enjoy throwing them! Too much detaily things to do and I feel like I don't have time as it is. Enough justification...here are some pics of the grand event!

(pinteresty and detaily are words on MY blog)

Addie and Bug prepartying

 Waiting for the ball to begin

 Addie wouldn't take this picture. I told her "if you don't get in the picture we wont have any pictures of you and Ella for your wedding slide show". That some how worked! ha!

 Knight and shining Owie

 Fun Friends!

 Garland and Cinderella! She heard Addie was having a birthday party and decided to come!

 Reading a story

 Princesses and the princess

 I was trying to play "Musical Slipper" if they were holding the slipper when the music stopped they had to pretend to fall asleep and the princess would bring them a hershey kiss to wake them up. Some of them didn't get it. If they music stopped they all fell asleep. ha! It was so funny! Others wouldn't pass the slippper. They kept looking at me like "give me the hershey kiss now". 

 Cinderella giving them their wands

 Lilly loves Alicia's curtains as much as I do!

Emily look at Ella in the back ground ha!

Christmastime continued

I love the holiday season! We had so much fun! Addie is of the age that Christmas is such a magical, exciting time. I really tried to emphasize what Christmas was truly about this year. I told her that Santa was fun and magical but Christmas is about Jesus being born and how we are so excited during Christmas because Jesus saved us!
She asked me how Santa could be real and make-believe at the same time. I told her that it was like when daddy does a magic trick. We don't know how it happens and that's what makes it fun. Anyway, here are some of our Christmas time events.

Ella bella's build a bear birthday party! Can't believe she is 5!

 Bug watching Addie's Christmas program

 Addie's precious program! It was so sweet. I had to hold back tears the whole time.

 Ella was Mary! We were so proud!

 She had to make sure I took a picture of her yawn. ha

 Ella and Addie singing "Happy Birthday Jesus" 

 Gammy did bawl

 Gammy and Papoo after performance. For the record...daddy was there he snuck out of school to watch it and had to sneak back before the end.

 Polar Express train with Santa

 Happy Bug riding the train

 ha!

 Our friends Jeremy and Kathy came too! We loved getting to hang out with them!

 Story time

 milk drunk

 Christmas Morning!

 ha! Bug's Bugged by something

 Christmas Morning at Gammy and Papoo's