christmas 'tookies'

when i think of christmas growing up, i remember decorating christmas cookies with my mom. i LOVED it. naturally me and harp made some this year. sooooo, i may have jumped the gun. she was licking icing off of a paper towel about 2 seconds into decorating AND i am still finding sprinkles in the cracks of our wood work. but we DID it! and just to hear her say 'tookies' every other minute was worth it. too cute.

santa's cookies

we left some cookies out for santa on christmas eve. and i love this progression of harper looking at the half a cookie left in the morning. and my FAVORITE thing is that she ate what he left. that's my girl. {you may have to double click on the image to make it bigger so you can actually see the confusion on her face.}

christmas morning

we have loved being at home christmas morning. especially as harper becomes more and more aware of what christmas is about. this is what i hope i remember from christmas morning.

this is christmas eve. sorry i'm not sorry that our kids are so cute.

huck got his own set of keys. these things are genius. they finally figured out to make them out of metal instead of plastic. when are mom's going to be designing these things?

THE pink tutu. when harper sat on santa's lap and he asked her what she wanted for christmas, she said a pink tutu. obviously he had to deliver.

harper got some rain boots. the first thing she asked the morning after christmas once she rolled out of bed was to put on her pink boots. she loves them.

harper loves the movie cars. she still hasn't quite figured out how to work lighting mcqueen and mater that santa brought.

if you are wondering why i look so tired in that last pic...well, i was...am. yikes.

christmas with grams, pops and jenny

i have so many good christmas pictures so i'll just try to hit the highlights of our different celebrations. it was a pretty disjointed christmas this year with my mom in the hospital. so grams and pops and aunt jenny came to us this year. thanks for that!

i had sweet memories of harper 2 christmases ago when she was huck's age when i looked at this picture. harper loved all the paper and ribbons. he sure didn't eat paper like harper did. different strokes for different folks.

this clifford was a huge hit in our house this year. and the books too! (thanks cindy)

we were really excited when huck opened up this tee ball set. i mean, get out. it is too cute.

i could hardly wait for harper to open her new play kitchen. grams had it delivered to our house and it was all i could do to keep it in the box.

thanks to jenny for being the photographer so we could be in the middle of the action. i'm sad i don't have any pictures of grams, pops and aunt jenny with the kiddos. add it to my list of things to fine tune for next year.

beginning to look a lot like christmas

so christmas has come and gone, but i am BEHIND! it was really fun to get a tree and decorate it this year. everything is new for harper. it's so sweet to see the wonder in her eyes as she looks at christmas lights. and the excitement of santa although she really didn't get it completely. she could tell she was SUPPOSED to be excited. and huck is still reaching for that tree skirt.

we have a crawler

huck is finally crawling. he has been working on it for a few weeks. and he finally got it yesterday. i'll refrain from any...harper was already taking steps at this point and just say...hooray huck!


{just ignore the peanut gallery comments, it's pretty hard to keep harper quiet...she likes the spotlight. watch out t-swift, she's gunning for you}

cuties

i got a new camera for christmas and luckily i have lots of cute subjects. here are some of my faves...

this is my first pic out of the box. BELLA!

my dapper dudes.

harper girl