Not a Creature Was Stirring...Not Even the Baby!

I cannot believe that I am sitting in my den ALL BY MYSELF! I am pretty sure that this has not happened in oh about 4.5 months! Daniel, the baby and the dogs are all settled down for a long winter's nap and I am sure visions of Sugar Plums are dancing in their heads!

I am sitting in the dark with only the light of the Christmas tree and gas logs! I love it! It is so cozy in here. I am sort of tired (and should probably go to bed), but have decided to use this time to do a little online shopping/browsing/idea getting while watching Home Alone 2.

Here are a couple of pics of my little Christmas Elf to leave you with!!!!




She is such a great sport!! I bet she will hate me for this one day!

Poor EG and Pearl were just worn slap out from all the Christmas decorating!


Sleep tight and stay warm!

LPS

Thank you to Jami....

She is such a great friend! She took some pictures of EG and I a couple of months ago! I love them! It is hard being in pictures when you are the mom because you are always the one taking the pictures. I so appreciate her taking some of the both of us! I will truly treasure them forever! In hinds sight I really wish I would have made Bones come out back with us (he was watching the USC game) to get some pictures of the 3 of us! Oh well...next time!

I totally think Jami should start doing photography (even if it is just on the side)-Dont you agree?! She did an amazing job!

Here are just a few from our little photo shoot in her back yard! I cant show you all of them because they will be featured on the infamous Christmas Card!

HaHa...poor thing couldn't sit up yet so we had to put her in this basket!!

Love EG's face in this one!

She is just such a happy baby!





I love this one!




Thanks again Jami for being such a great friend and for capturing such great memories with me and EG! I hope I can repay you one day!!

A Picture (and a Christmas Card) is Worth a Million Words....thanks to Shutterfly!

Wow....Thanks to shutterfly for offering bloggers 50 free Christmas cards! That is awesome...and such a money saver! Since I am a slacker and NEVER did any birth announcements for sweet Emma Gray I had to make it my mission to send Christmas Cards this year! After searching many places I found the perfect card on Shutterfly!!! I wanted to be able to include as many pictures as possible of our little Fancy Pants! I found the perfect one! This is one of the many reasons that I love Shutterfly! I also love being able to share pictures of Fancy Pants with our friends and family through Shutterfly!I also love shutterfly because if I can get my act together I will be ordering some Christmas presents from here!

There are so many cards to choose from! Here are just a couple that I liked! Of course the final one I decided on will not be shown below-You will just have to wait until you get it in the mail!!!

Here are a couple of my runners up!






I think I love this one so much becasue this little girl is adorable!

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Happy Shopping!

Happy Thanksgiving.... a little late!

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving....lots of food, family, fun and shopping (of course)! This year we sure do have a lot to be thankful for!

Daniel had to work Thursday a.m. so I headed to my parents to go walk with my mom-unfortunately we got rained out. I really wanted to burn some pre-turkey day calories, but oh well at least we tried! Instead we ate breakfast and EG enjoyed her very first Macy's Thanksgiving parade. I truly feel that the Thanksgiving Day parade is the start of the Holiday Season! I love it and EG seemed to really enjoy it as well! After the parade we headed back to my house to get ready for a full day of eating. We hit up the Smiths' first! Since our families were eating only like 1hr. apart this year, I decided that I was only going to eat one meal. Last year I had an excuse to eat as much as I wanted-I had another human being to feed! But if I ever want to get rid of the rest of this baby weight off I cannot allow myself to eat 5000calories in one day! Needless to say we definitely got plenty to eat and it was as delicious as it has ever been! Before we ate at my parents I saw my dad cutting the Turkey and he cut off these 2 GIGANTIC turkey legs (my mom cooked at 25lb turkey). I asked him to put one aside-I had the wonderful idea to take some pics with EG and the turkey leg!!! It was the greatest idea ever because these pics are too cute! This will def. be a new tradition!
Another new tradition will be our pre-Thanksgiving baking session! I know EG is too young to understand what is going on but I really think she enjoyed baking with me!!!! And I hope in years to come she will continue to enjoy doing things like this with me
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Here are some pics from our great first Thanksgiving with our little one!






EG was such a big help (quite the messy baker)baking the pumpkin cupcakes! The final product was delish if I do say so myself.








This is my favorite! She wanted a bit of this thing so badly! I think she is going to do great with her smash cake on her 1st birthday!



Here are all the girls getting ready to go to Gaffney for some shopping! Dont worry EG stayed at home with daddy...but next year she is going with us! :) I mean she is one of the girls too!




This is from our dinner the Wednesday night before Thanksgiving. I hope this will be a new tradition as well!!

I hope everyone else's Thanksgiving was as great as ours!

July 20th What???

That was the last time I blogged! OMG...I have a lot to catch you up on!

My biggest hesitaiton with starting a blog....not keeping up with it! I have proven myself right. I have been such a slacker since Emma Gray's arrival. I am going to try my best to be better from now on out because we have lots going on and I want to remember everything that is happening in my little lady's life as she grows up! So my December Resolution is to be a better blogger!


Look for another post today...with pictures!

LPS

My bags are packed

And I am ready to go...no not leaving on a jet plane-but to the hospital to have this baby!! I have 4 more days until my due date! I would love to have this baby before then, but I am just not sure that it is going to happen!I obviously have never had a baby before,and I am not sure what I should be feeling at this point-but I dont really feel too differently this week than I did last week or last month! I have a dr. appt. tomorrow and they will check me to see if I have dilated! So I will keep everyone updated after my appt!

On another note... I only have 3 days left of work before maternity leave. It is so weird to think that I will not be there for 8 weeks! Everyday I leave I have to make sure my desk is sort of cleaned off and that I have done as much as I can for that day...JUST IN CASE! Maybe I should leave one day totally unprepared and it will make you come quicker! I will miss my work people! I see them more everyday than I do my family! I know that these 8 weeks will go by so fast and I will be in the opposite position of not wanting to leave my little "Critter" but it is just hard to imagine not being there everyday!!!

Well...good night! Maybe I will have something exciting to report tomorrow!!!

Welcome to our family....

No I haven't had the baby yet!! But we are excited to welcome a new member to our family!!! GABE! Yes, Jami and Gabe got engaged yesterday! We are so excited.

He proposed in Charleston so the family packed in the car yesterday and drove down to Folly Beach (where his entire family is vacationing for the week) and surprised Jami! What a special day! She was shocked and I think very excited to see us since she thought she was going to have to wait a whole week before she got to see us and show us her beautiful ring!!

I cant wait to start helping her plan a wedding!! So much fun! We love you Jami and Gabe and are soooo happy for you two!

Aren't they such a cute couple!!!