TEN YEARS!!!!

How could I have known you'd ever say goodbye

And now I'm glad I didn't know

The way it all would end the way it all would go

Our lives are better left to chance I could have missed the pain

But I'd have to miss the.........

"Just because something wasn't meant to last forever, doesn't mean it wasn't meant to be......"

Christmas 2017

This girl right here, really is the source of..........

We had a wonderful Christmas and will be back to blog about it later, we have BIG plans for a BIG Anniversary!!!! #bigten #bigcelebration #packingourbags #notimetoblog

A week of...

Angels, Christmas sweaters, red and green and pajamas (only I forgot to take a pajama picture and made her put them back on for a picture) #ohyesidid

And on the 5th day, Delaney missed school due to a dental appointment. Her Santa wore scrubs this year :-)

She’s officially on Christmas Break! Our gifts are wrapped, our trees are trimmed and most importantly our alarm clocks are OFF! We can’t wait for the next two weeks! Bring on Christmas 🎄 

Our Best December Life

We’ve been doing December hard over here.....

We've been counting down the days until Ferdinand "I Love Love".....

At the last minute, I ditched our plans to head 2 hours south to look at lights and we headed 1 hour north. The lights in Frankfort do not disappoint! Our family owns Bookers restaurant in Kirklin, IN so we had dinner there first. The drive was sooo worth it (and the food of course -:)

When I told Delaney she looked hideous, she said "don't you mean hilarious"....."ya, that too kid"

Sneaky's been showing up in the strangest places....

Now this is my kind of gingerbread house (zero mess!)

Delaney is almost out of school and we’re ready for Christmas!! Delaney is 200% confident Santa is bringing her a Fur-Real Friends tiger but I have a sneaking feeling he's bringing her some unexpected year end dental treatment :-)

We have our annual Ugly Christmas Sweater party this weekend, Christmas at the Lake, Christmas Eve celebration with Framily and then the big day! We are hosting 20 people and can't wait to celebrate. Well, as soon as the cleaning elves show up and I START wrapping......

The End of an Era

Delaney is no longer the only granddaughter! Meet Nashville's newest Colts fan :-)

Annie Rose (born on Reggie Wayne's birthday) has removed Delaney's title....

He's Baaaaaacckkkkk!!

I don't think I have ever cried more than I did when Sneaky showed up a week early this year!!
That was NOT planned..........he's been up to his little antics (nothing Pinteresting though) and I think we can live together for another two weeks :-)

"Dear Santa"

We took advantage of a warm weather day and headed downtown to mail Delaney's letter to Santa.

Dear Santa,

I have been a good girl this year. Can I please have a "Fur-Real" friends tiger, dice (weird, right?), ornaments (I LOVE how she spelled this), Elf on the Shelf clothes, a pointer finger (for teaching) and gift cards (I LOVE this too).

On the way downtown, from the interstate, the lights looked like a totally different color. In fact, Delaney said "those lights look like they are a blush pink color". 

When we got there, they looked like this.

Delaney came out of her room wearing this.

Everything is On Point!

Man I love this kid.....

I just love this little FREE tradition we started. I love all of the Christmas traditions but I also love to try something new each year. "Stay tuned for this year's".......

Last week we had breakfast with Santa at school. All I am gonna say is "if Santa gets to make a Christmas List, I sure hope a new wing back chair is on it".......