New Year's Eve 2012

We recently purchased a new dining room table, so I have been anxious to have friends over to finally use this big new table.  We decided to host New Year's at our house.  We had babysitters at the Dickey's next door, so it worked out really well.  At bedtime, we just scooped up the children, brought them home and put them down in their own beds.  It was so much fun to finally celebrate New Year's again!!

Then we played a crazy game of Taboo.  lol

Mom's Visit / Logan's 1st Trip to Samford Hall!

My Mom came to visit us to bring Christmas presents today.  After opening the presents, we headed to Auburn for lunch at Five Guys.  We LOVE that place and I couldn't believe it was my Mom's first trip there!  Because it was such a pretty day, we decided to walk down to see Samford Hall.  It was Logan's 1st trip there, so of course we had to take pictures!  It always makes for such a pretty picture too.  We love living in this town!

Logan's 4 Month Bear Pics

My sweet boy is 4 months!! He's now 12 lbs 11 oz (10%/50% adj) and 25 in (25%/80% adj).  He's still nursing , but the BIG news for the month is that he's now sleeping through the night!!!  Wahoo!!!  He's getting closer to rolling over, but it hasn't happened just yet.  I got so lucky (or either my methods worked!) with both my babies.  They both started sleeping through the night at 8 weeks adjusted!!  Here's my big boy!!

Leighton loves to sit in on his bear pics!



Logan's 1st Christmas!!

The kids let us sleep in to about 8:30!! It's so much fun watching Leighton see what Santa brought.  The pure bliss on her face is worth it all!  Santa was very good to her this year.  Her big present for the year was a rocking horse.  She ended up loving it!  Santa also thought it was about time to start potty-training, so he brought her a Dora potty seat.  Logan got some baby toys and cute outfits. 

Since we didn't have any family in town for Christmas Day and the Dickey's did, they invited us over for Christmas dinner, like we did for them last year.  Funny how we've started a new tradition!  We're thankful for such great friends!

Christmas Eve

Because we wanted to spend Christmas morning at home, we decided to spend Christmas Eve in Montgomery.  It worked out great, because I finally got to see my college roommate Lindsey and her husband Doug.  I haven't seen them since our trip to DC in 2007, so that means they hadn't met either of my kids!  It still seems weird at times that we're even old enough for kids!

After meeting with our friends, we spent the rest of the evening at Jonathan's parents house.  We had our traditional rehearsal dinner for Christmas Eve dinner, then opened presents.  The Christmas Eve before our wedding in 2004, Jodi decided to try out these recipes for a possible menu for the rehearsal dinner that they would be hosting that next April.  We had filet mignon cooked in the oven, fresh almondine green beans, wild rice pilaf, rolls, and mandarin orange salad.  It was all SO good that we've had it just about every Christmas Eve since.  We also have to take the family picture in front of the Christmas tree (a tradition that I started).

Finally, on our way out of town, we decided to stop by the house on Dalraida Pkwy that is always covered in lights.  Leighton loooved it!