I'm hoping I can try to blog more...maybe twice a month. I know it doesn't sound like a lot, but I am setting the bar low, and my life isn't that exciting so twice a month should be enough. ;)
Here are a few highlights from the past few months:
1. Mattie Kate Johnson was born on 10/10/12. I'm not going to post a pic yet. Mattie deserves her very own post of her special day! :)
2. Three weeks later it was Halloween! In general I don't get super excited about Halloween, but I was pumped this year because of how well Blakeley did the year before. I had actually started stressing about it in September because I did not want having a new baby around cause us to miss out on precious memories with Blakeley. I knew I needed to be prepared with choices of costumes because Blakeley was becoming very strong willed and often did not want to put on costumes. I had years earlier experienced my nephew Ethan not wear a costume at Halloween, and was going to try my best to avoid the same experience with Blakeley. In the end, the choices didn't matter. She kept saying she didn't want to wear anything. Luckily, I outsmarted her and distracted her enough to just change her clothes with minimal resistance.
You are probably wondering what exactly is Blakeley. Well she is a "princess fairy" to be exact. Her costume managed to come together like this...I found the dress at a consignment. It was a 2T, and already too short, but for one night I figured it would be ok. The dress was supposed to help her be Rapunzel" aka "Punzel". But she also loves to wear wings, and we had a Tangled crown from her birthday. So we decided to combine all these things into a "princess fairy. I was pretty impressed with myself because the total cost of her costume was less than $10!
We were also lucky to have Justin's parents there aka Buddy & Mimzy. They helped keep baby Mattie warm and comfy in the stroller. And got to watch Blakeley in action!
Once we had walked most of the neighborhood, we went back home and passed out candy to the bigger kids who were still out. Blakeley LOVED passing out candy almost as much as she loved getting candy!
After Halloween, it was back to normal....which was oddly busy at the same time. Buford went all the way to state for the 6th year in a row, and won this time after losing last year. Having football go so long into December makes trying to do Christmas activities a little difficult (on top of having a newborn). But I was determined to do a few things at home. The first thing was to make a Christmas treat with Blakeley. I found on pinterest chocolate dipped marshmallows with sprinkles. This was perfectly easy for me and a 2 year old. I put the marshmallows onto sticks and dipped them into the melted chocolate. Then Blakeley dipped them into sprinkles.
Blakeley loved this!! She felt like such a big girl helping Mommy "cook" in the kitchen. She loved it so much that we made WAY to many!! But it was nice, we gave some to her friends at school and her teachers. Here is the link to the Christmas treat we made. I highly recommend it because it is inexpensive and cute! We were even able to make it into part of her present for her teachers "The Debbies". She dipped their chocolate marshmallows in chopped up peppermint pieces. We then bought cute mugs, hot chocolate packets, and put it all together as a warm holiday treat! (Sadly, I didn't take a picture, but it turned out just as cute as pinterest said it would - ha!)
We also were able to ride around and look at Christmas lights thanks to Aunt Lucie. The kids were in their pjs, and we all piled into "Adley's car" aka Aunt Lucie's awesome mini-van (and I am being serious when I say its awesome - I definitely see the appeal now - I know - gasp!) Aunt Lucie had a great plan of which nieghborhoods to drive in and we got to see some beautiful houses! There was even one house that has their lights set to a radio station! For future reference, its off of Mineral Springs Rd near Hamilton Mill UMC. We will definitely be stopping by that house every year for some FREE holiday light displays.
Once Justin was out for Christmas break, we did a TON of running around going to see all of the family! Blakeley loves it because she loves all the attention and play time she gets with her cousins!
Then we finally got to Christmas Day! Here is Blakeley running down the hallway, ready to see what Santa brought her!
She got a play table for her play room, coloring books, "Punzel" figures, a big Tinkerbell, and Tinkerbell slippers, and her princess castle.
Blakeley loved playing in her princess castle that Santa brought!
My next post will be the story of Mattie, and that will already get me my two posts for the month of January! yea!
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