Valentine's Party Photo Shoot

Susannah was VERY into having her picture taken this morning before she left for her MMO Valentine's Day Party. Here she is in all her glory...

One of her teachers made Valentine cupcakes and sent them home for an after-school snack. Susannah loved it despite the mess it made on her hands!

 

This is her "What?!? There is only 1 cupcake??" face! 

Happy Valentine's Weekend to you!

Be Still My Heart...

 Bracelets! We got these lovely bracelets in the mail from Uncle Tom and Tip and Susannah is really enjoying her new accessories. She may not be able to keep them on without holding her arms in the air! I tried to get some pics that show Susannah's hair! It is growing daily and thickening up, and it looks like it might be a little bit red!!!

We are headed to our MMO Valentine's Party tomorrow. Suz has been working hard on her cards and many a sticker has been strategically placed! She knows she is going to a Valentine party and has been talking about it all day. Hope you are all enjoying your Thursday!!! XOXO!!!!

High Time

It's high time we got back in the swing of things. I know, I know Aunt Mana... you need some regular updates on your favorite niece. Well, here you go!

Seeing as half of the country is covered in snow, I figured I might upload the pics from our early January snowstorm. We were stuck inside for 3 days and that was more than enough time to exhaust our arts and crafts supplies (which you all have received in the mail), make tons of cookies, bundle up and venture out (although not for long) and enjoy having Daddy-o home for some extra snuggle time. He makes the best snowmen, don't you think? He even did this by himself in the backyard, so Susannah could stare out the window and admire them. She still looks for them on occasion, but they are long gone. Thank goodness!

Here is our girl standing watch at the back window. We played with the airplane A LOT. It took lots of trips to Oklahoma and California!

Our house and cars covered in snow...

Taking a little walk in the neighborhood.

Making homemade thumb-print Valentines.

I know this is nothing compared to what has fallen this week. We are thankful for everyone's safety and warmth and are counting down the days until SPRING!!! Lots of love!

Christmas part 3...

 Our camera ran out of room/ batteries died at the Captain's house, but here are few of the highlights. I wanted to get these Christmas pics posted before February. Man, am I cutting it close. We had a very interesting from Santa at the Captain's house and unfortunately I didn't get any pics of that encounter. If any of you have some, please send them to me. I would love to see those pics!

Tea party with a gift from the Clarks!

Singing to myself in the dressing room at the Bass Pro shop. I never imagined that I would wish for a BP near me, but it was a pretty awesome outing for Susannah. She LOVED all the stuffed animals (especially the buffalo).

Helping Ibby open her Dirty Santa gift.

Loving on Aunt Mana.

Susannah and the Captain spent a lot of time kissing the snowman and the reindeer in the front garden. She LOVED these guys and the Cap would take her out to see them every time she asked. 

 

 

Hope you are all enjoying a warm day wherever you are. We are so happy to be welcoming back temperatures higher than 50 degrees here in Greenville. Susannah and I are headed to the zoo this afternoon. In her dinner prayer last night she thanked God for the orangutans and basically begged to go see them. Off we go...

Christmas part 2

Here is our yearly pajama shot. Aren't we good sports?

Susannah loved her daily outings to see the ducks and geese by Mia's house. We ended up feeding them 4 loaves of bread and a box of cereal during our stay at Mia's.

Of course she liked to travel there in her new car with her shades on and her sippy cup on hand.

After the duck outing she wanted to say hello to "Moses and Barney." Uncle Steve J. helped her name them on day 1 of our trip and she still talks about them!!

She was also a big fan of this snowman. In fact, she loves snowmen in general! At Mia's we also enjoyed one of the most unusual and entertaining Christmas displays I have ever seen. Apparently a local woman had all of these parade float-like structures on her lawn at one point in time and they were quite the attraction for WF residents. After her death, the family donated them to the local college and various civic organizations maintain them throughout the year. Susannah loved the Cinderella float and the "crocodile one" (Peter Pan) and the baby Jesus. She proclaimed to everyone within earshot, "there's a buffalo in there with Baby Jesus." In all reality, it was a bull, but who's really checking anyhow?

I think this is one of two family shots we took over the Christmas holiday. It's hard to believe that next year there will be 4 people in this picture!

Christmas Part 1...finally!!

 Isn't this the way everyone should travel for the holidays? Comfy pajamas, a healthy McDonald's breakfast and a fantastic attitude? She was also very concerned that she fit in the overhead storage bin. See? She's even double-checking.

I figured it is definitely time to put some Christmas photos on this blog! We had a WONDERFUL trip to Oklahoma and returned on the 29th. We started our trip at Mia's and enjoyed doing "the Christmas morning experience" complete with toy assembly on our "Christmas Eve." It was so nice of Santa Claus to let the daddy and uncles assemble the toys!!!

 Of course, all this work was well worth it. Susannah loved the kitchen and the car, and we all enjoyed playing with both.

Susannah waited on the stairs with Uncle Luke and Ibby. The rest of us were ready with cameras and video cameras!!! Susannah loved the car and the kitchen.

A surprising favorite gift-- the chapstick in stockings. She loved putting make-up on everyone, especially the uncles!!

 

 

 

More to come...