My favorite time of year

Ok so Thanksgiving has come and gone and it was a great day!!!! I LOVE cooking! I have one more "Thanksgiving" party coming up with my family on Sunday!!! I can't wait!

But my fave holiday is Christmas! I love the snow(not ice), the holiday cheer, the music, the decorations, and most of all FAMILY!!!!!!!!!! I love Christmas. Every Christmas my mom's family comes to my Grandma's for a family Christmas. I LOVE going up there to see family members I haven't seen since Christmas. The discussions, the food, the kids, just the overall happiness!!!!

We are going to be decorating our tree tomorrow night! We tried doing it the day before Thanksgiving because Aaron had to work the day after and we were doing our dinner on Thanksgiving. We still need to get a tree star, garland, and a few more window decals. Aaron's mom gave me a set of 100 cookie cutters for Christmas! They are awesome! It has cookie cutters for Christmas, Halloween, Easter, Valentines, Sports, Different shapes, Letters, Numbers, and stuff! The bucket has a recipe for bake art dough! So I am going to make ornaments!!! I am going to get some food coloring and some sharpies and make lots of ornaments with the girls! I know Anteya can't really help but I can put her in her high chair and she can at least watch! I can't wait to start making them tomorrow!

The kids:
Anteya is getting so big!!!! She just really started crawling a little over a week ago! Today she started pulling herself up on the furniture! I was laying on the floor playing with the kids this morning when Anteya grabbed my shirt and pulled herself up! Then when it was nap time she pulled herself up in the crib and later while playing on the floor she pulled herself up on the couch! She is eating what we eat now! I don't have to puree anything anymore! She eats regular stuff! She absolutely LOVED the turkey dinner yesterday! She handled everything so well! She LOVES turkey!

Alaythia turns 2 in 22 days!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can't believe it! She is having a Winnie the Pooh themed party! She LOVES Winnie! She is talking full force pretty much! 99% of the time you can understand her! She makes full sentences. The norm for a 2 year old is 3-5 word phrases. Alaythia probably gets up to 7 word sentences! But is following very well with "normal" developement otherwise! I really can't believe how quickly they grow! After Anteya was born time seemed to go by slow since she was sick but now they have just flown by! I remember like it was a yesterday when I had Anteya and Alaythia wasn't walking and now Alaythia wants to walk EVERYWHERE, she is telling me clearly what she wants, and is just so funny! Look at Anteya! It has been 6 months yesterday since her surgery and the only thing that shows she had any problems at all is her scar well and I guess her weight issues which are getting better slowly! She is probably back up to where she was at birth on the growth scale!


It is amazing how quickly they grow! EVERYONE cherish these momtents because before you know it they will be grown!