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Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Gingerbread Houses

So we started a tradition of doing gingerbread houses the 1st year me and jake were dating and have been doing them every year! Some years not as successful as other..lol.. but we did it and had so much fun making theses memories =]
I def like the ones that are already assembled for you and you decorate , rather than the ones that you have to try and glue together with icing!

Funny Story... lol... 2 years ago we were doing our annual gingerbread house and my bro and his wife( gf at the time) wanted to join in on the fun with us! Well we tryed to put the house together with the icing that they give you and it just kept falling down over and over again! So my bro with his genuis idea.. decides , Hey lets Calke the house together.. lol .. yes a construction workers Calke gun he went and got out of my dads work trailor and brings it inside to try and make this giingerbread house stay up! Well needless to say we had alot of fun and got some funny pics but our house sadly never would stay up! lol But it was such a fun and memorable time!

This year was Averys 1st year she could really help mommy and daddy with the GB house! So we got everything together sat by the coffee table and started decorating our pre built house! It didnt take Avery long to figure out what we were doing and she was helping mommy right off and then she tasted the candy! lol And it was eat the candy and dip the candy in the icing mommy and daddy are putting on the house and eat the icing! lol But we had so much fun and such fun memories! Annaliese was sitting by us while we were decorating and she even got some pictures taken of her with one of her "my 1st christmas' onsies on!

Here are some pics of all the fun that we had =]
















 
Stay True to your heart and Always Follow your Dreams!
God Bless,
Heather =]

Santa baby!

We last year Avery was not fond of the Santa claus that she took a picture with in Gatlinburg... this year was not so different! My poor baby screamed and tried her best to get as far away from the big man in red as she could. She likes "Claus" (as she calls him) from afar but buddy as soon as you take her 5 feet away from him she wants nothing to do with him. So this year like last we have a screaming picture of our beautiful girl with the jolly ol man himself santa claus. Annaliese doesnt know much whats going on so she was ok but then started crying cause she likes to be held up where she can see everything and Santa held her on her back and she didnt like that! So this year I have a picture of both my beautiful sweet girls in Santas lap crying... something that they will look back on and laugh! We did get Santa to sneak up behind them to take a shot while he is saying "shhhhh" to the camera and Avery has the biggest smile on her face , because all she was seeing was Daddy jumping up and down being goofy and not paying any attention to Santa behind her! So here are a couple pics of our family christmas session with Santa by my friend Morgan of Morgan Joy Photography =]








 
Stay True to your heart and Always Follow your Dreams!
God Bless,
Heather =]

Saturday, December 3, 2011

Thanksgiving 2011 & Iron Bowl

This Thanksgiving was a little different than other years past... my Nanas house was flooded by 2 over flowed toliets and so it made where we couldnt have it at her house this year. So we had it at Golden Corral the night before thanksgiving.. not what I would have chosen but at least all of the family was together. Def different.. I like tradition and that was def not! And then afterwards us along with my bro and sis in law when to Kohls ..shopped for about an hour and half and talked outside by the cars for another hour and a half. lol... but Its fun times like this we will remember!!

Then on Thanksgiving day we had lunch at my parents .. yummy turkey and spending time with the family and taking pictures in the front yard =]  Oh and I made homemade mac and cheese =] ....

Then we headed across the bay to the in laws house... I brought a homemade cake(my very 1st one with homemade icing too =]) ,homemade mac & cheese, and homemade cheese biscuits.(Tryin to learn to cook more =] ) Me and Avery decorated their christmas tree for them and later we ate BBQ ribs and yummy mashed potatoes.

It was a good day with lots of yummy food and family time. It was Annaliese 1st Thanksgiving but she didnt chow down on the food , she stuck to her bottle .lol Avery's 2nd Thanksgiving and she loved digging into the food! lol

I did NOT go Black Friday shopping.. no way not me.. I wont get out in all that craziness and madness. People are like animals out there and you can really get hurt and loose alot of sleep over saving what $10 on something... Not worth it to me. So much for christmas cheer and loving one n other , you better hope that you have your hand on that item you wanted first and can tug hard if someone else has their hand on it too! Im a lover not a fighter! lol Ill be safe at home with my christmas cheer =] I helped my mom put up her christmas decorations =]

Then sat was the Iron Bowl.. we went over to The Camps house grilled out hamburger and watched the game.
Me and Avery were the only Aurbun fans but it was ok.. we were decked out in our Auburn outfits and Jake and Annaliese were decked out in Alabama. House Divided =] Even though we will cheer for the other team on other games against other teams, on this day we are Cheering for Our team. =] Its Fun! The game was close for a while and then Bama stepped it up and Won. But Im not a sore loser or one of those CRAZY fans. I'm excited for Alabama hopefully going to the national championship game. That would be awesome if they won and a Southern Team... well not just a southern team a team from the state of Alabama Won the national championship 3 years in a row! I think that says alot for our state, and Im proud of our teams.YAY FOR THE SOUTH and the State Of Alabama! =]
Then we went and watched Breaking Dawn and it was good. We havent really been much of Twilight fans but every movie seems to be getting better and this was was the best. We always joke and say TEAM JACOB! lol Cause there are people so serious about this movie and a little obsessed if you ask me! But This one was the best one yet and now im ready to see the next one cause they left it with an open ending.

Rain ,Rain go Away... I was supposed to have 3 sessions today(sunday) but because of the Rain were cancalled and resceduled! Hard to rescedule and fit people in when Im already booked pretty good for the rest of this month. So thankful for my business and wonderful clients. I love my Job and I'm just so thankful I can do something I Love and be able to make my own scedule,and spend lots of time with my girls and hubby!

Here are a couple pics from the festivites =]









Stay True to your heart and Always Follow your Dreams!
God Bless,
Heather =]