Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas to all!

We have had a wonderful Christmas! We feel so blessed to have our little Adlee and she has been so special this holiday. She has really been into all of her presents and gets so excited at everything she opens. She got so many cool toys she has been playing with all weekend.

We celebrated with my Mom & Steve on Thursday. They came over after work and we had Papa Murphy's pizza. We wanted something simple and it was quite yummy. Adlee had spent the day with her Daddy since he was out of school already for break. (Thus the camo outfit that makes her look like a boy:))
Adlee loved opening all of her presents and was very appreciative of everything she received.

This is my little sister Chloe. We got her a new purple puffy vest for Christmas:)

Friday morning, Adlee's Grandparents (Jeremy's parents) came over to celebrate Christmas with us. They stayed until today and we had a great weekend. We enjoyed snacking all day and then opening our gifts. Again, Adlee was spoiled rotten and got so many cool things. Christmas Eve, for dinner, Jeremy made a wonderful Prime Rib, we had twice baked potatoes, I made (well actually Jan put it together) a yummy salad, we had Beef House rolls and wine. We also took Adlee to Christmas Eve candlelight service. She was an angel during the whole service. We came home and sat out cookies for Santa and carrots for the reindeer and got in our jammies and patiently awaited Santa's arrival. Adlee must have been a very good little girl because Santa brought her a lot of things!

Adlee loved opening her presents but she really loved trying to eat the wrapping paper and tissue paper.

Adlee is sitting up all on her own now.

Christmas Eve was beautiful with all the snow we got. It was so nice having a white Christmas. It really felt like Christmas.

I had to take a picture of our beautiful meal because it was soooo yummy!

Getting our cookies and milk ready for Santa.

The mints are on the plate because Adlee grabbed them and put them there and apparently she thought Santa needed some mints too. I thought it was cute so I left them there.

Santa came for Adlee. Like I said she was a very good girl. She got an Bitty Baby, many books, clothes, socks, some new cups, Sophie the Giraffe teether, a ride on/push behind dino walker, some baby flash cards, and a few other fun toys.

Christmas morning....checking out everything Santa brought.

Adlee was lucky enough to have 2 sets of her Grandparents on Christmas Eve/Christmas morning. My Mom and Steve came back and stayed the night with us. We had fun. They ate dinner with us Christmas Eve, my Mom went to Church with us and we played bingo that night. (Jeremy and I got a new bingo game)

Adlee got a new hair bow in her stocking. She also got a couple new bibs.

Taking the new dino for a spin around the living room:)

Then it was time for the 3 of us to have our family Christmas. Adlee got some clothes from her Mommy & Daddy, some new plates and bowls, several books, and a new bath towel. Oh and a new pair of pj's each from her Mommy & Daddy.

Christmas morning, Chef Jeremy was back at it. He made Monkey Bread which was the best Monkey Bread we have ever had. He also made a ham. We had ham with breakfast and then for lunch made ham sandwiches out of the leftovers and snacked on various other goodies we had.

Christmas was enough to wear these two girlies out!

Merry Christmas everyone! It has been a great one and we look forward to all the Christmases we have with our precious girl! We are also very thankful for our parents and family for their generosity to the 3 of us this Christmas. It was a great one!

Staff Party 2010

Tonight we hosted Jeremy's staff party at our house. I didn't take any pictures during as I was busy keeping Adlee occupied and socializing but I did want to take pics of the food. We received many compliments on the food.

I served Holiday Cheer Mimosas. I bought plastic champagne flutes that included cranberry juice and champagne. I also put fresh cranberries in the flute.

We served the following:

Mini pork chop sandwiches with provolone cheese, bbq sauce and horseradish sauce on the side.

Little wienies wrapped in bacon and cookied with brown sugar

Tomato & Mozzarella on a skewer with balsamic viniagrette

Shrimp Cocktail

Chips & Salsa

Veggies & dip

Crackers

Creame Cheese w/ pepper jelly in the shape of a Christmas tree with a cinnamon stick trunk

Sausage & Cheese on a stick

For dessert I made Cream Stuffed Strawberries, I had various other Christmas candies and my Step Mom made me different truffles to serve. They were a huge hit. There was peanut butter, mint chocolate and fudge.

And of course the big hit of the party was this little gal. This was after everyone left and she finally got floor time, she was on her way to open a present:)

Christmas Festivities Have Begun!

The Christmas festivities have begun here. It was a fun weekend and having Adlee and see her reaction to her first gift was priceless.

I had to post a pic of this. I thought it was cute. Adlee's friend Chloe from daycare brought this over for us this past weekend.


Adlee wore her Uggs Saturday. Disclaimer: I did not buy my child Uggs, they were a gift, that is why my 6 month old who's shoe size may change tomorrow has Uggs:)


Saturday night we got together with my Mom's side of the family at my Aunt & Uncles. My Aunt has horses and they have a horse arena and a shed and their shed is a great place to have family functions.
Adlee was so funny. My Grandma gave her her present that night. The following pictures are of her opening her first Christmas present!

Of course eating the wrapping paper was the best idea she thought:)

And she got a baby doll! She was soooo excited she squeeled and continued to squeel at it the rest of the weekend.

Lovin on her babydoll!

Sunday we had Christmas with my Dad and Step Mom Sharon and Step Sisters....Adlee got a lot more presents again!

She knew something in the bag was for her.

So here is a close up of her baby that she loves so much!

And here are all the goodies from her Grandma and Grandpa and Aunties.

She got a little "My First Purse" and this is the cell phone that came with it. Again, another item that was a huge hit with Adlee.

Adlee had her party at daycare today. She gave her sitter her gift and the kids all drew names. I made cupcakes. Adlee was dressed really cute this morning but that outfit did not last long. She came home in her spare outfit. Adlee got a cute little turtle that makes noise and has numbers and shapes that you can push. She also got a little Elmo from her sitter that also talks and makes noise! When I got to pick Adlee up today, Vickie's house definitely looked like Chrismtas threw up in her living room! It was a huge mess and the kids were really wired!