Pre Christmas Fun

Santa 2014

 

Our Church has a breakfast with Santa. Last year Carson screamed his head off! This year I was not sure how his visit with the big man would go. Big brothers didn't want to come, so Bryan and I took Carson to have some breakfast and visit Santa.

 

 

He sat, ate his breakfast and colored until his name was called. There was a couple of children ahead of him and I whispered in his ear "if you sit on Santa's lap, you get a candy cane" Carson LOVES candy!! When it was his turn, with mamas help he visited with Santa. Carson didn't say too much but did tell Santa that he wanted a dump truck for Christmas.

Carson was a very good sport, but as soon as Santa handed him his candy cane, he was done and ready to be back with his mama and daddy! I hope he gets that dump truck for Christmas! I told Carson while we were waiting that next Christmas he will have a buddy to tag along with him and he can show him/her the ropes!

 

 The weekend of Bryan's Birthday we decided to make a trip to Charlotte. We wanted to do several things: Look at a SUV for Bryan that he saw online, visit Ginger Bread Lane, and go look at some area Christmas Lights. We did end up getting the SUV, that process didn't take long at all! Next stop was to Ginger Bread Lane.
Best of all this was FREE! You walk thru all the contest entries and the entries are just amazing. We had not done our houses yet, so it was fun getting some ideas.

                          Landon being a teen decided to stay at home, so I just had my Peyton & Carson for the day of fun!

 

 

Carson loves to play with our wooden soldiers at our home, so he was in aww when he say this giant fellow!

A Frozen Gingerbread house!

 

 

At each one Carson would say "I want to eat it!"

 

This was one of our family favorites!

 

Next Stop was Christmas Town USA!

We got to McAdenville pretty early, so we parked grabbed a snack and was ready to roll at 5:30 on the dot when the lights come on. We ended up sitting in stand still traffic for about 45 minutes, which was crazy since we got up to the town so early!

 

We finally got to go and ride thru the 1.5 mile stretch, We would like to go back but it will be on a week night.

 

After sitting in the car so long Peyton was thrilled to FINALLY see the lighted sign! He wanted his face in the photo!

 

Carson's favorites was spotting Santa & getting to be loose in the car!

It was a long fun and productive day. We finally made it home by 10:00pm Bryan and I were tired, however making family memories is totally worth it!

Christmas 2014 Photo Card Shoot

Our Christmas Cards have been mailed.....I considered not sending them this year and saving some money, however we were having photos done anyway due to the pregnancy so we combined the photo shoot.

I also found a Groupon deal.....$10 for 50 cards at Staples. I actually spent more on the postage than I did the cards. I was limited as to what designs I could choose, but I found something that worked. Definitely in the future if I send photo cards I will look for Groupon deals first, this was a big money saver!

This was a fly by the seat of my pants kinda photo shoot.....I normally have everything planned out just perfect. We just went with what was in our closets......and I knew we would be using the bridge at Old Salem. The bridge is just a neat spot in general regardless of what you are wearing.


Merry Christmas & Happy Happy New Year from our family to yours!! We hope you are enjoying the season with your families and not stressing too much over things left on your to do list!

Bryan's Birthday is today and this weekend we have some Christmas festivities to look forward to!

This was the shot we used for our family photo Christmas card! This will be the last one ever that I will be pregnant in:)

 

 

My sweet awesome boys!!!

31 + Weeks

Today I am 31 Weeks 4 days Pregnant. I have hit my official 8th Month. I knew this pregnancy would go by fast, but WOW my head is spinning!!

I am sure working 4 days per week, a family, the holidays, etc etc is helping it move right along and quite fast. As far as the pregnancy I feel just fine.......I am now visiting the doctor every two weeks now. We still have no clue if this is a boy or a girl.

We had some family Christmas photos a couple weeks ago, and I went ahead and had a few pregnancy snap shots done as well. We still have no clue on names......nothing has been packed, washed, actually Carson and Babies room isn't even started yet. I told myself we would not start all of that until the Christmas tree is down after the Holidays.....at that point I will be 34 weeks so it will be crunch time. I have no clue if this baby will be on time, late or early. I have had one of each (a very early, late & on time), therefore when 34 weeks arrives, I am going to push thru as if this baby will arrive at 37 weeks like Landon did.......though I do really want a February baby:)

Now keep in mind while the photos were being taken, I had 3 kids and a silly husband making remarks and laughing......

In the above photo Landon was asking "why do you look so serious?"

 



In these photos Carson was having a fit to get to me.....and look how sweet when he finally did all he wanted was for mama to hold him:)

 



I am sure in a few weeks I won't be saying this but I am kind of hoping I am 2 days late:) We will see!!