Merry Christmas!

We hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas! We sure did! Since Matt was supposed to leave for work in the afternoon on the 24th, we decided to celebrate our Christmas the weekend before so Matt would have time to check out all of his stuff for a few days before he had to leave for work.

We pretended Saturday was our Christmas Eve. My parents and sisters came over to have tacos with us and give Matt his presents from them.

Later before Chloey went to bed we put out cookies and milk for Santa, and left him a note.

Sunday morning "Christmas morning" came. Chloey was surprised with her presents from Santa. We had our usuall Christmas morning breakfast, French toast, and opened up all of our gifts and stockings, then went to church for Christmas Sunday.

We hung out for the next few days of the week until Thursday when Matt was supossed to leave for work. Well, for anyone who thinks it doesn't snow in Oklahoma....We got the biggest blizzard of snow Oklahoma has probably had on Thursday. Of course by afternoon roads were shut down with multicar pileups and lucky for us the airports were closed! After a few phone calls to airlines and work, matt got on the next flight that was available which was not until this morning (sat), So we got to spend all of Christmas with him! We couldn't have asked for anything better.

The blizzard may have been bad on Thusday, but by Christmas morning it was Beautiful and perfect for our White Christmas!

Oh Christmas Tree...

Our Beautiful Tree this year

Dear Santa....

I got Chloey's picture taken with santa a few days ago. I was really surprised that she didn't cry or freak out. She walked right up with me and sat on his lap. Although She was pretty much frozen and I think afraid to smile.

Birthday Girl

Monday was Chloey's Second birthday! Since Matt does not get home until Saturday, we are waiting to have her party then. Chloey and I spent the day together, had a birthday dinner and cupcakes here at the house, followed by movie time. We got her the ice age movies as one of her present, so i gave those to her. She cant wait to have her party so she can finally start touching the Dora stuff I ordered for it. I cant believe my baby girl is already a two year old!

Countdown to 2!

Only 3 days until our precious turns 2! (and if baby additudes, that sound like shes 13 come with that, then she is right on schedule lol) We went and got Chloey's two year old picture and family pictures done last week. Two hours and two different sessions later, we got some pretty good pictures. Chloey was scared to death of the camera and flipped out everytime the lady got close to it, so we had to leave, get some cookies to calm her down, then go back to try again. Matt and I then had to push the picture button in between each picture that was taken so she would smile and not freak out. All in all, you cant really tell there was even a problem with her by the pictures, so mission accomplished!

Here are the pictures we will be sending out pretty soon.

Birthday Theme

DORA...of course! Chloey's favorite along with the Princesses. I just got in some of the stuff I ordered for Chloey's Dora birthday party. It is pretty cute.

Some Christmas Decorating

Before Matt had to leave for work last Thursday, we started some of our Christmas Decorating. We got boxes of the multicolored icicle lights to hang outside around the house. We were originally going to get the plain white, but i think the colored turned out much prettier!

Matt and I also set up our tree, and he topped it off with the angel. We put the lights on it to, but that is as far as we got. Chloey and I will probably be putting the ornaments on some time this week. Usually I would have all the Christmas stuff all up by now, but have been somewhat lax about it this weekend. My pictures may be a little blurry since I took these ones on my phone.

I wanted to start some fun holiday crafts to do with Chloey this year. We Started by making some snowflakes to put up on our glass door. She did the coloring and of course I did the cutting. She was very proud of our snowflakes when i put them up on the door.