White Christmas

Everyone dreams of a White Christmas, and this year, our dreams came true. We woke up Christmas morning to a new dusting of the pretty white stuff. It was really COLD out, but we could not pass up the chance to let Reagan enjoy the snow for a while. We bundled her up and let her play in the snow for a short while!!! She loved every minute of it!!

A Sugar-Coated Thanksgiving

Our Thanksgiving was full of good food, good friends, sweet girls, cuddly babies and well, some good old sugar coated fun!!!!

The grown-ups had a nice relaxing dinner while the two little turkeys (AK and Reagan) scurried about playing and nibbling on their Thanksgiving plates. The adult conversations were great, as well as the food!!! The girls ran about and played their little hearts out!!! The baby slept peacefully through it all.

After everyone had their 2nd and 3rd helpings of food and after everyone complained of being so full of food they were gonna bust, we relaxed around the table and continued to converse.

AND THEN................

Those two little turkeys were somewhat forgotten about for a minute or two, because that is all they need, a minute or two, and well, things can get a little out of control!!

We thought they were a little too quiet for comfort, so one of the adults decided to check on the two little turkeys and make sure things were peachy!!!

All I heard were screams and laughter and " Oh my goodness, get your camera and come quick, you have got to see this!!!"

These two little turkeys had escaped into the laundry room, and who knew a laundry room could be so much fun!!

The picures speak for themselves, but if your confused, yes that is AK and Reagan, yes that is a bag of sugar, and Yes, they did dump it all over the floor and yes, proceed to shovel , and I mean shovel handfuls and handfuls of sugar into their mouths!! Lovely!!


This picture says it all and I crack up everytime I look at it. This is when we first opened the door. Reagan looks like she is totally guilty, and look at AK in the background, shoveling as much sugar as she can get into her mouth before we can get to her!!! HILARIOUS!!!


If you didn't actually see her shoveling the sugar into her mouth, well this should clarify things!!!!!


Silly little turkeys!!!!


Covered in sugar, I mean head to toe. You may not be able to see it in this picture, but Reagan's hair was caked with sugar. I would have loved to see what they were doing before we found them???


The turkeys were whisked off to be bathed and rid of all remaining sugar!!! And then they did what any other 2 year old would do after shoveling handfuls of sugar into their mouths, they bounced off the walls like maniac's until mommy's and daddy's and grandma's and grandpa's were dead tired and ready for bed:-))))) Sure did make for some hilarious memories though!!!

Happy Halloween!!!

Reagan got her first taste of the joys of trick or treating tonight!!! She was the cutest little pirate ever!!! I was not sure how she would do going up to stranger's houses and getting candy, but she did really great. She obviously had no clue what was going on, but she sure did love filling her bag full of goodies.

Jeremy took her up to most of the houses so I could take pictures. He said that every time someone would answer the door, Reagan would freeze and just stare at the person. All she knew to do was to get candy and turn around and leave. She would say thank you, grab her candy (which she was not shy about) and book it to the next house!!! She was really cute and funny, and totally worn out by the time we got home;-)

Here are some pictures of our Pirate Princess!!!

Pumpkin Punkin

We took Reagan to the Flower Mound Pumpkin Patch with some friends!!! I LOVE pumpkin patches, I love pumpkins, and I love dressing my baby up and taking her to the pumpkin patch!!! Reagan had a blast, and Jeremy and I had fun watching her enjoy herself. Her favorite thing at the pumpkin patch was all the little Reagan sized pumpkins (and a gourd or two). She went around and picked up a million Reagan sized pumpkins and carried them around.








We made our way over to the larger pumpkins, and Reagan tried to pick up a few of those also, to no avail!!! So she settled on riding along in her wagon with her daddy pulling her along!!





We sat sweetly on some hay and had our picture taken:))








We sat on a tractor and looked at some animals!!







All in all, it was a fabulous fall day in Texas, not all we need is some FALL WEATHER!!!

SEC FUN!!!

What: SEC Showdown UT vs. Florida and LSU vs. Mississippi State

Where: Fun times at the L House!!

Who: Lots of fun SEC friends and families and future SEC fans!

Why: Why Not??? Football, Food and Fun, Doesn't get much better than that!!



We recently got together with some other SEC fans/friends for a tailgate party!!! Tennessee played the dreaded Gators and LSU played Mississippi State. I talked Jeremy into going, his one prerequisite was that he got a front row seat for the Tennessee game, which he was much obliged!!

Reagan was dressed in some Tennessee cuteness and had a great time playing with her fellow future SEC football fan friends!!!




The food was great, the desserts even better!!! Check out these cookies, how fabulous!! Thanks AA!!




It was a fun night, full of friends, football, food, frolicking toddlers dressed in their SEC best, and lots and lots of FUN!!!

The Tennessee game, on the other hand, was not full of FUN.....

Here is how Reagan feels about how her Vols did against those silly Gators!!



"EWWW!!! Not good Vols, Not good!!!"


"Oh no, Vols, Daddy is going to be so upset about this one!!"

21 (ish) Months

I have been so so bad about keeping up with Reagan and how she is changing, she is getting so so big and so much fun!!! Here are a few new things (or alot of things) that Reagan is doing these days....


-Reagan weighs about 23 pounds (she is a big one I tell ya) and is in about the 15-20th percentile for her weight. She is in size 4 diapers and wears size 18-24 month clothes.



-Reagan is a DANCING QUEEN. She loves to dance, and will dance anywhere, anytime. Anytime a song comes on, the girl is getting down!!!! She dances in the van, she dances at church, at school, but her favorite place to dance is in the livingroom.



-Reagan is talking more and more each day!!! She is super cute and I love to watch her grow and change!!! Some of my favorite things she says are: sorry (as she pats my face) anytime she does anything that she feels was not very nice; dance (which sounds mostly like dance, but not exactly, but with her dancing motions, is a sure sign that is what she wants to do!; Lets go, which is more like (eh go), along with grabbing my hand and taking me wherever it is that she wants to go; Nannie (which is her version of Annie), which is her favorite puppy whom she loves dearly; Mommy, of course is one of my favoites, especially when I hear her yelling Mommy Mommy from the living room when she hears me come home from work; Papaw, which she calls all olderly men that she sees, which is pretty darn cute; scary (very dramatic like, eyes wide like she is terrified) when she is watching THe Little Mermaid. Note: I do not make her watch the little mermaid even though she thinks its "scary", she insists on watching it while repeatedly saying "its scary, its scary." Another recent favorite is "I'm stuck", and she says it ALL the time, especially when she is in her carseat,its constantly "Im stuck, Im stuck!" There are many many more, but these are a few of my favorites at the moment!!!




-Reagan is very strong willed and independent and did I mention strong willed. My oh my do I have my hands full with this one!!! Thank God she is so stinkin cute!!!! He knows what he is doing:-) At that moment, Reagan is pushing me as far as she can, and then sometimes farther. Strong willed, did I mention that yet, yeah, thats our girl!!! Reagan's also in a stage where she throws temper tantrums. I am trying my best to make it through this stage. Reagan also bangs her head on the floor at times when she wants me to know she is frustrated or mad, and I have been told, I do not really believe it, but I have been told that I did the same thing when I was her age!!! I am totally starting to read parenting books and am registered for a parenting class because I am LOST right now as to how to deal with this strong willed child of mine:-)))))))



-Reagan is loving her movies these days, and her favorites are anything with puppies or animals in them (101 Dalmatians, Fox and the Hound, Lady and the Tramp, Jungle Book); she is also a HUGE Buzz Lightyear fan. I bought her a Buzz Lightyear stuffed action figure, he is pretty much as big as she is, if not bigger, and she LOVES him!!! She takes him for walks, she feeds him, she puts diapers on him, she puts him to bed. Buzz comes everywhere with us, he has his own seat and seatbelt right next to her, and he even sleeps with her!!! Its pretty cute!!



-Reagan is one tough little cookie!!! This girl can tumble off the couch face first and not even bat an eye!!! Good thing she is so tough, because she also likes to climb on everything, and occassionally falls off things!!!! She also loves to take off running without paying attention to where she is, and at least two times a day she smacks right into a wall or some piece of furniture:-)



-Reagan has the best facial expressions, you can totally read her every mood based on her face!!! Her sweet face totally lights up with a smile when she is happy, when she laughs, her whole face and body laugh, when she is mad, watch out, she will not hesitate to give you a dirty look:-)When she is suprised, her face screams it, when she is sad, she sticks that bottom lip out and you know she is sad. When she is scared, her eyes are as wide as they can be!! She can't hide her emotions, because they are written all over her face!!!



-I am so enjoying where we are right now, and so enjoying our sweet baby girl who is not so much a baby anymore!!! Sometimes I do not feel that I am going to make it one more day, and then that girl flashes me a light up my world smile, and I am putty in her hands, and so thankful for everything, the good and the bad, the easy and the hard, the fun and the not so fun!!! I will enjoy each day knowing that someday, I am going to miss this!!!!

BUBBLES

Bubbles, we love bubbles!! Reagan loves bubbles, but she especially likes to try to blow bubbles, which is quite entertaining from my point of view!!!!! It is really really cute to watch a baby try to learn how to blow their first bubbles. I have enjoyed watching Reagan this summer try and try and try to blow her own bubbles, because she is SOOO independent and does not want ANY help. I think half the time, she ends up eating soap, but she does not seem to mind. I caught some of the fun on camera, and thought I would share!!! Your welcome, its quite enjoyable!!!

Spilled Milk

Whoever said not to cry over spilled milk was clearly not the mother of a toddler...





(Yes, that is a puddle of spilled milk, and yes, that is in my van)

Lovely......