Merry Christmas

This picture is so much more than this year's Christmas card. It's my favorite memory from 2015!  Standing in Cinderella's Castle in the Happiest Place on Earth with the happiest kid on Earth is going to be hard to top!!!! 

I will never take this moment for granted.....We are beyond blessed and as the card says "beyond merry"!

Cookie Making, Hat Wearing, Baby Loving cousins.....

Delaney's cousins from NC made it to town for Christmas!!! It didn't take long for us to head over for a visit. Like always, I managed to stay out of the kitchen (which is a good idea since our oven has been out of commission for almost two weeks....and we now know our smoke detectors ALL 3 are in working order)!

These kids are ready for Christmas!!!

All Sorts of Busy

We have had so much fun this holiday season like going to ugly Christmas sweater parties (Rudolph courtesy of Pinterest of course).............

And great grandma's Christmas program.......

And eating cake for breakfast........

And a little of this.......

And getting our pre-Christmas nails done

And more to come this week!!!!!

Christmas at the Zoo

We took advantage of more warm weather this week and headed to the zoo!

And ended at the border for "puffy drinks"

"Best Day EVER"...............

We took advantage of the warm weather and headed downtown to mail Delaney's letter to Santa.  Have I mentioned how much my girl LOVES downtown. 

As we were on the interstate, she spotted the tree.

We decided to take a carriage to get there!

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Our driver made a quick stop to mail Delaney's letter

(Play Doh, Dollhouse, American Girl, Lip Gloss and FOOD---I have no idea what that means, maybe Delaney's trying to tell me to go to the grocery!)  As we started to "sound spell" American Girl Delaney said "wait, I"ll just get one of my bags from there and copy the letters from it".

I LOVE this picture (minus the fact I'm not even looking),
it shows the sheer excitement in Delaney's face!

She said "you guys tricked me"!

This is as close as Delaney would get to "Roxy".

It really was the BEST DAY EVER..............well, 

until tomorrow, when I get to be her mom all over again!

Santa Visit 2015

Delaney's school had breakfast with Santa this weekend. And I realized that school food is still "school food".  She has been telling me she can't tell me what she's going to ask Santa for for Christmas and how it's a secret. Just before we left, I got out of her the four things she wants:

1. A Pony

2. A dollhouse

3. Play doh

4. An American Girl Doll

I tried to "listen in" when she was talking to Santa and I heard her say "a pony".

She told me she only asked for two of the four things:

1. A Pony

2. A dollhouse

If only Santa's workshop wasn't already closed!

Delaney had a very exciting weekend! On Friday night, we had movie, pizza and popcorn night (she wanted us to play Bunco!). I showed Delaney the previews for Babes in Toyland to see if she wanted to watch it and she told me no, it looked like a movie from the 80's or 90's!

Delaney thinks ALL movies look like that when they aren't in HD. Delaney is an HD snob (just like her daddy)!

On Saturday, she got to go to the Circus with one of her friends from school. To say she was excited is a major understatement. She was equally excited to ride in the little girl's parents' mini van! 

TRUE STORY FRIENDS!!

The mom text me pictures. I was so excited to see Delaney with her overpriced snow cone but I don't want to post a picture of the girls on the world wide web without their permission so you'll have to take my word that it was full of cuteness! I think the best part of this story is the following text between me and my aunt after I sent her pictures:

Me: Delaney is at the circus with her friend from school.

Aunt: Did you take her?

Me: No, the mom came and picked her up.

Aunt: OMG You are not even there, Dave would have a fit!!!

Me: I KNOW.............................

I got THE BEST advice from Julie the day before (at 4 months older and 4 more kids than me she is SO wise) about Delaney doing things with kids from school. I was 100% comfortable with Delaney going to the circus. And just as soon as my sweet little thing got home, she turned around and left again (didn't even take off her coat) just like a teenager! She even kept the change from the money I gave her to buy a snack at the circus #girlsareexpensive.

I still refuse to wake a sleeping "baby"......................

Welcome Sneaky

While Delaney was at school, Sneaky decided to show up! He (who is clearly now a she) was due in late last night but his....or, her, flight was delayed :-) Sneaky left a note reminding Delaney to be a good girl. Delaney said she liked Sneaky's hand writing but thought it was so weird Sneaky wrote her a note since she doesn't have fingers.........

I asked Delaney what she was going to ask Santa for for Christmas and she told me it was a secret and I don't need to know everything! (Good thing our Santa stops at our house daily in his big brown sleigh).