Vacation

I'm so excited to have the next few weeks off of work to do nothing but play with my girls and spend some quality time with my husband! Whew! The past few weeks have been exhausting (with Davy being out of town for TWO weeks!) --I can't wait to have some time to just enjoy each other.

 Such a silly girl... getting in her little sister's Bumbo sitter! 

 B LOVES sucking her thumb!

Random picture before school last week :)

 The FMU President invited McCall and Baylor's classes to meet Santa,  have cookies, make ginger bread houses, and  ride horses at his house.

 Family photo outside Dr. Carter's house.

 McCall: "Mommy, seriously... enough with the pictures..."

 Getting a bald spot :(

Baylor makes the funniest faces!

Tomorrow....

I get to meet my new niece, Tessa!!!!

Nikki and Eric will fly into Charlotte from China tomorrow night with their daughter (our niece!).  Davy, McCall, Baylor and I can not wait to finally meet her in person. We have been skyping with them since they got her last Monday. She is SOOOOOO happy and looks absolutely adorable!

Family Pictures

We recently had some family pictures done. It was SOOOOOO cold! But the girls actually did pretty good ONLY because Davy's cousin Ashlee and her family were also having their family pictures done at the same time. McCall LOVES playing with Peyton and Pryce and I'm sure Baylor and Piper will play together once they get bigger (esp. since they are only 3 weeks apart in age!) A few pictures of the family photo session are below!

Trial Run

So, you may think I'm crazy when I tell you this....
OK, so some of you already think I'm crazy.... I'm cool with that :)
Yesterday I needed to get some shopping done (and my parents were in town) so I headed off to the mall with both kids, my mom, Ken, and Davy. I decided that while we were there we should have a "trial run" for the Santa pictures we have coming up next week. If you remember correctly....this was the scene last year.... and the year before that Santa had to sneak up behind McCall while she wasn't looking so we could snap at least one photo :( So, I think it was totally justified that was a little nervous about how McCall was going to respond to Santa this year.
Great news! She loved him! McCall wanted to know where his reindeer were and wanted to make sure he got ALL of her Christmas list. (and it didn't hurt that Santa supplied her with a little candy too).
I will post both Santa pictures (the mall one and the one from next week) after the Santa Meet and Greet next week at M's school.

Same Story.... Different Day

Why oh why can I not find time to blog? Maybe, just maybe it's because I have a full-time job... and I'm a full-time Mommy of TWO.... and my husband has been out of town for a week...... Anyway.... nothing new going on here, but I do have some new pictures of the girls and our latest activities!

 We went to the mountains for a weekend with our sweet friends, The Beards, a few weeks ago.

 Koehler reading to the girls

 I LOVE LOVE LOVE the crazy funny faces Baylor makes!

 Miss Emily checking out Baylor...

 ....and Baylor's bouncy....

 Em tried it out so of course McCall had to also.

 My turkeys! Thanks for the cute shirts, La La!

 Elvis, our Elf on the Shelf, arrived at our house for the first time Thanksgiving morning :)

 Elvis has been in some pretty interesting places each morning....

 McCall loves to get on the floor and "play" with Baylor- I can tell that these two are going to be the best of friends :)

Conversation during this picture (true story) : "Mommy, Baylor isn't looking at the camera...."

 "I make her look......"

[notice Baylor's irritated look on her face.... cracks me up!!!]