Playgroup Christmas Party

I love this playgroup I joined! They really are an amazing group of ladies. They are easy to talk to, fun to be around, nobody gets left out or ignored, nobody gets treated with disrespect, and most of all the kids have a great time together! They did a little Christmas party for the kids with snacks, a craft, and then santa came and brought them all presents with their name on them! I wonder how he knew their names :)

 She did a really great job on the Christmas ornament! Mommy was really proud of her

 Our group needed a Santa really bad and no ones husband was really available so i asked (i didn't even have to beg) Anthony if he wanted to and he said he would as long as someone provided the suit. One of the ladies had a suit so Anthony agreed. Madison clearly has no idea that anthony is behind that suit! I love that Caleb couldn't have cared less about Santa this year he was more curious about the beard then he was freaked out.

 Madison getting her gift from santa

 all the kids that came that day

 still completely panicked about Santa

Caleb is my favorite in this picture...just staring at Santa!


**My favorite side story that has nothing to do with my children. One of the ladies was having a few issues with her little girl. she asked "santa" to talk to her and gave him a few details and told him what the name of the elf was that visits their home. anthony gently (i was impressed) talked to the little girl and told her that chippy was not reporting good things to him and that she needed to be good until Christmas to be on the nice list. When she walked away from anthony her eyes were huge and she was speechless. the mom told me the next morning that she is suddenly sweet as pie!**

Disneyland With Auntie Amanda

My sister had a one year season pass and so she asked me if she could take Madison to Disneyland one more time before her pass expired of course I said yes, who denies their kid a free trip to disneyland!

It was a great day and Madison passed out when she came home. she talks about the princesses all the time.

Ginger Bread House Decorating

Our "elf" maverick brought the kids a ginger bread house for us to decorate. we have never done one of these because our kids have always been sooooo little but this year seemed like it would be possible to do.

 

Caleb watching mommy assemble the ginger bread house

 mommy pick me up so i can see what you are doing

 he was screaming on the floor so he can come up and see what we were doing

 okay! i'll put you up here so you can watch...total silence the rest of the time.

 time for some fine motor skills practice (those candies were super small)

 Finally a well developed pincer grasp

 

 All finished and Madison was very glad to play with something

Madison's 3rd brithday party

Madison is really into Minnie mouse and so this year since she shows a preference and enjoyed a specific character I used that to create her party.

Every year I put together one special element to her party this year I decided to do a cupcake bar! I thought it would be super fun for the kids but the adults totally got into it too!

 3 different cupcake flavors. Vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry

2 different kids of fillings. white chocolate cream and raspberry

 3 frostings, pink vanilla, white almond, and chocolate butter cream

all handmade by me (it was my first time! and yes i'm proud)

I did 6 different toppings: crushed oreo's, gummy worms, white chocoalte chips

mini m&m's, red sugar sprinkles, and Jimmy sprinkles

I also ordered these cute pink and white boxes for them to take an extra cupcake home in!

we had tons of friends come and family come and celebrate with us.

She's really good and blowing out those candles

We got a jumper for the kids and it was the highlight of the day

 opening presents with daddy was not a big hit this year it took some coaxing to get her to open them

 an awesome comforter "minnie mouse" blanket Madison's bestie's mom made her

Caleb slept through most of the party he made it for the last 30 minutes. 

he's hanging with Anthony great grandma right here.