Wordless Wednesday {4}

These pictures were taken on Saturday after our Christmas pictures. I haven't posted them yet and I figured I would today bc I haven't taken any pictures this evening and I probably won't this momma is exhausted. Hope everyone's having a good week!

linking up with: and, then she {snapped},the paper mama, live and love out loud, jenni from the blog, and baby baby lemon. 

My Gingerbread Baby

I know that I've already posted tonight but my baby is sleeping and I'm actually not extremely exhausted like I usually am at this time of night. AND Sophia and Gary are sleeping. Time for ME TIME {blogging}. If I have time then I'm going to post as much as I can because during the work week I'm lucky to get one post up. 

I decided that from today until Christmas all my blog posts will have something Christmas-y to it. I'm also going to try out some of the fun recipes I found on Pinterest. I'll have to share everything on here. One thing I do want to share is how cute my baby looks in her Gingerbread cookie outfit. I could eat her up.

We had a good weekend, it just went by too quickly. They always do though. Friday night Gary and I met up with our couple friend and ate dinner at Applebee's then ended the night going to a small bar here. It was a good time.

The next day we waited for our new dryer to get here and our baby girl. They both arrived. We took some of our Christmas pictures. Check them out here. Gary had to work that evening so I met Jesseca at the mall and we did some Christmas shopping. I got Sophia some new Christmas outfits from a new store that opened up here. I also got Gary one of his Christmas present. He is such a kid when it comes to presents. I told him I got him something and he asked where it was and then started guessing. He actually guessed it but I told him yeah right, that I didn't even know where to get those with a smile on my face. Ha. I'm horrible at lying.

We had a lazy Sunday morning the next day. Then we headed to Taryn's Birthday Party. Sophia got to meet another baby there. He is the cutest. Meet Isaiah.

Only 20 more days until Christmas. I'm getting super excited. I know that each year is going to get even better as Sophia grows. I'm excited to be a kid with her again. I remember believing SO much in Santa and everything. Oh, how I miss being a kid sometimes. But Sophia will bring all that happiness back to me. I'm excited to go see lights. I haven't went in for so long. I kind of lost my Christmas spirit while I was in college so this year I'm going to make up for all the Christmas's I was a grinch ;)

Tomorrow is my grandma's birthday. We're going to surprise her with cake tomorrow after work. My grandma is the best ever. She has helped me with so much in my life. She's also a fabulous cook, but I think all grandma's are .. mine's just the best.

Today went by super fast so hopefully the rest of the week does. I need get some laundry in before I got to bed. I get to use my dryer for the first time! Good Night Everyone. ❤❤❤

A Taste of Christmas {in pictures}

We decided to try and take some Christmas picture of Sophia and the family this past weekend so we can send out some Christmas cards. It used to be so easy to take pictures of Sophia when she was a little baby. Now that she's mobile it's so hard to capture anything. I have to bribe her with bulbs and candy canes while my mom sings and does crazy dance moves behind me. But we got some cute ones. I took a bunch but these are my favorites .. 

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Holiday Photo Challenge

This year I'm going to send out Christmas cards for the first time.

My first plan was to take some cute pictures, find a card online and order em.

Well I got some cute pictures... not the best ones bc it's so hard to take pictures of a 13 month old. Then I got onto the internet and started searching different websites.

I'm very cheap, so everything I looked at seemed too pricey.

I decided to make one myself. I found some websites that were offering free backgrounds. 

The ones I used I found from Paint the Moon and Shabby Princess.

I used other random images I have downloaded before and had saved on my computer.

Here is what I came up with:

Also entering this into The Paper Mama's holiday photo challenge.