December Daily 27

Three very special girls going on a very special date to a very special store with a very special Mimi!!! 

#AmericanGirl

December Daily 26

The Day-after-Christmas hangover...

Cured quickly by Mimi's magical playland backyard!!!

December Daily 25

Our happy, blessed, beautiful children on Christmas morning 2014. 

These two are my greatest gifts. 

December Daily 24

Christmas Eve: my favorite day of the year.

Lucca putting out the cookies for Santa

Papa talking to the grandchildren about the meaning of Christmas... 

The wait is getting too hard for pouting Jackson...

The loot! Santa even found us in Georgia!

The calm before the Christmas morning storm

December 23

We have made it to Mimi & Papa's house!  The kids are getting very excited and Jackson is learning that presents don't unwrap themselves, so when a present of his is unwrapped under the tree, he is caught. Three year olds are THEE best.

Magic is in the air!  The last presents have been bought!  Mema is here! Christmas 2014, let's do this! 

December Daily 11

The kids are off from school due to our BIG STORM!  The storm has actually not proven to be as big as suspected, but we are home nonetheless watching the rain fall.  And dealing with our leaky master bedroom, which is loads of fun for everyone. We are spending the time baking Christmas cookies for my holiday party {which was canceled due to the BIG STORM}. And playing games.   And looking through the giant stack of Chatbooks that arrived today.  Use my code 99QNZ6KZ and get your first Chatbook free :)  

Tomorrow's goal is to get a manicure and find a new place to live.  One small task, one life-changing task.  

Also, thankful for online shopping in this season, can I get an amen?

December Daily 9

       Bedtime Carols sung by Lucca

We are all piled on Jackson's bed while Lucca sings us Christmas carols before bed. My personal favorite was on the fourth Day of Christmas, when her true love gave her a... chicken?  May I always remember Lulu singing the song that most precious way. ❤️

December Daily 8

For the past few nights, we've loaded up the kids after dinner and hit the best Christmas houses around town. The Mickey Mouse House is a tradition now and the kids LOVE it!

December Daily 7

Santa Found!!! At a house in Novato?!

Lucca wants tape & dress-up clothes and Jackson wants planes (shocking!) for Christmas.  

Christmas with kids = the best.

December Daily 6

N U T C R A C K E R ! ! ! 

Took these beauties to see the Nutcracker and had a lovely time.  Giggling, whispering, cookies, ballerinas, HIGH HEELS ... such an amazing time spent with Lucca and sweet friends.

(Lucca's first pair of heels, which she is allowed to wear three times: Nutcracker, Christmas Chapel and CHRISTMAS!)  #dreamcometrue

December Daily 5

It hasn't stopped raining for five days, so the kids decided to go outside and play in it anyway!  We miss our big golden sun, but are trying to be thankful for all the rain since we need it so badly.  I let the kids play and get drenched and then to the warm bath they went!

Jackson has been requesting we make a "Christmas Countdown" so we made paper chains...

It's certainly feeling Christmas-y around here and I love it!   

December Daily 3

Jackson can be found at any given moment over by the tree talking to Mr. Christmas.  

What? 

Your tree doesn't light up and sing 12 different Christmas carols by request? 

And Lucca, our very own sugar plum fairy.

December Daily 2

Elfie is back!  Our latino elf from the North Pole.

Jackson doesn't get it, or care, but Lucca (and all her classmates) are ALL ABOUT THE ELVES.

Tonight we are setting up a super secret spy camera to try and catch Elfie flying around the house while we sleep.  You can only imagine the excitement around here.  Thanks to Daddy's new GoPro, Project CATCH THE ELF is in full effect.

December Daily 1

December Daily: A photo a day in December to capture bits and pieces of Christmas magic.  My favorite season! And this year (minus sitting & losing in traffic court today) is off to a good start!  My husband hung the lights on the house!  FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER!  Amazing.  Happy wife, happy life.

And Coco? She's happy too and even makes signs about it.  After creating this I Love December sign, she went and invited the neighbors to come look at our beautiful lights.  And they did.  The excitement is in the air!!

December Daily #29

Christmas morning Round 2

A happy little shrinky dinker

And the most useful/thoughtful/comical gift from my father-in-law, due to my minor cooking mishap earlier this month that landed me in the ER.

Twas a good Christmas this year!!!  

December Daily #25 ... CHRISTMAS!

Christmas Day 2013 in iPhone pics

It was a good day.