Superhero Capes

I made these superhero capes for Sydney and her friends. They love them! You can read more about it HERE.

Mini Doughnuts

We made doughnuts this Saturday. We used a mini pan and a standard pan to make the chocolate doughnuts. Tasty! Sydney helped with the decorations by dipping them in a glaze and then the sprinkles.

I had fun playing with my camera lens:

The One Year Old Walker

Aubrey's main form of motoring is now walking. Unless there is something she is not suppose to get then she resorts back to the fast crawl. She's a stinker.

Happy Friday.

Game Day!

The Cotton Bowl is tonight. Man, I do hope the Aggies pull out a win! We are all in our apparel today to cheer for the team. These pictures of us are from this afternoon as we have been playing around and having fun.

BTHO LSU!

Aubrey's 1st Birthday

A couple days after Christmas was Aubrey's 1st birthday. Happy Birthday to our new little walker!

Here is Aubrey's cake. I saw this elephant and knew that it was perfect for her cake. I bought the pattern from Cheswick Company on Etsy. You can buy the pattern or the kit. Since I basically own a craft store myself I just had to buy the pattern. And seriously, I had everything I needed already even down to the little jingle bells - ridiculous, I know! : )

I made cupcakes with the left over cake batter. Much more appropriate cake portion for a 1 year old. I used the chocolate chip cupcake with dark chocolate frosting recipe from Martha Stewart's Cupcake Cookbook. The chocolate frosting makes for some good messy pictures too.

The 2 finger shove into the mouth. She learned it from her dad. : )

Sydney patiently waiting for her turn to eat a special treat.

My new favorite picture!

A great picture of Grandpa and the girls.

Happy Birthday Aubrey!

Santa Photo

Past photos: 2007, 2008, and 2009.

Sydney's First Snow

Sydney has been asking for snow for years now. I keep telling her that she is a Florida baby and not to expect it anytime soon. Thankfully, this was her year! It started snowing Christmas night and by the next day we had 6 1/2 inches! Let me remind you we were not in Florida but at my parents in North Carolina. I forgot how pretty snow can be...but not pretty enough to permanently live in a place with snow! : )

Snow Angel.

Building a snowman with Grandpa and Grandma.

Tomato eyes and mouth. Carrot nose.

Snowball Fight!!

They all had hot chocolate and marshmallows after coming inside. She's one spoiled little girl! : )

Aubrey's First Christmas

My sweet baby girl!

Merry Christmas!

Wow! Look at that ginormous real tree! This is Christmas morning. Syd can't contain her excitement.

Aubrey with her new hand-sewn stocking. Thanks to Grandma.

Aubrey with one of her many new toys. And me behind the camera using one of my new toys - a new camera lens! Yay!

Mini-Florida Christmas

We went to my parent's house for Christmas. Right before we left we had a mini-Christmas and let the girls open some presents.

Christmas Portraits

Sorry for the delay in blogging but I have been taking a vacation from the computer. I haven't opened up my laptop for a whole week! It's been nice.

I have multiple Christmas blog posts to share. The first one is their little portrait pictures. It's so hard getting Aubrey to cooperate for pictures! Out of the 100 pictures I took, only a few of them are acceptable! Sydney isn't much better. : ) Here are my favorites:

Someone is super excited about Christmas...

Can you guess who?

The little fashionista! Goodness - the pose is killing me. I see more gray hairs in my not-to-far future.

Little Miss Personality!

The many faces of Little...

Hanukkah

We went to go visit our good friends in Montgomery over the weekend. We were able to celebrate a few days of Hanukkah with them. Here are the kids enjoying the present from day one:

It's amazing how Sydney picked up driving. All the kids were good at driving. Scary!

We celebrated days 3 and 4. Debbie was nice enough to buy Sydney some presents to open too. Sydney is now a huge fan of Hanukkah. What's not to like about getting presents every night with your friends!?

Thanks for the fun time Debbie!

Monkey See, Monkey Do

Aubrey tries so hard to be nothing like a baby and just like her big sister.

She says the words "mama" and "go" which she tells the dog to do. Cute.

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. I have no pictures to show for ours. I was sick on the couch all week. Thankully my parents were here to help out! We have been non-stop sick for 2+ weeks (no exaggerations). We keep sharing our germs and then finding new ones to share around again. We've had the stomach flu, high fevers, pink eye, sinus infection, more fevers...you get the point. It's been exhausting! I am hoping December turns out to be a healthier month.