Adelaide at Eight Months

She is my joy.  She brightens my day with her funny faces she has learned to make just to entertain and communicate with us, with her tiny booty rocking in the air right before she launches into like the millionth attempt to crawl, with her sweet disposition and dramatic opinions about food she gives me like a million reasons to smile.  

A Girl After Her Aunt's Own Heart

About a month ago little miss was dedicated in worship at our church.  It was a meaningful experience because we were able to have our extended family and some friends present.  A few days after the dedication my little sis and I were reminiscing about the dedication and how wonderfully it went and my sister started telling me that during worship there was an awkward spot where someone should have been talking or there was a silent transition.  She said, "yeah, it was awkward so I decided to fill the dead space with a hand fart.  You know, make a little fart noise with my hands. But don't worry," she said, "I leaned forward so it would sound like it came from the people in front of me."  I laughed SO hard I almost fell off my chair.  Only my sister would think, "Hey this is awkward! I know the perfect solution--make a fake fart noise!"  

About two weeks later my sister, Adelaide and I were riding in the car somewhere.  My sis and I were in the midst of some really passionate conversation.  Suddenly our conversation sort of came to a close and the car got silent and from the back seat we heard a little, "ppphhhhtttt." Our little miss decided to fill the silence with a raspberry or as my sister now calls it a mouth fart.  We like to keep it classy around here.

Tuesday Crafties {Thanksgiving Table}

So here's a few quick glimpses of our Thanksgiving table and especially our place cards which doubled as our napkin rings.

So I used what I had in my craft supply and took gift tags, stamped a little holiday greeting plus the name of the person whose place it was on the tag.  I then ran the tag ties through a button, tied it off around the napkin and finished it off with a sprig of orange dried flowers. I like the way it turned out and that I used what I had to add a nice little detail to our holiday meal.

Did you do anything to add a special touch to your holiday? 

Over the {Holiday} Weekend

How did everyone's holiday weekend go?  We had a wonderful holiday weekend--it was equal parts restful and adventurous and full of family-time awesomeness.  

Our Thanksgiving Day was low key with a small get together with family and friends, hosted at our house.  I cooked a full Thanksgiving meal which was awesome--I love cooking especially in my own home for people I love!  And bonus, we were able to get my sis to snap a few family pics for the Christmas card.  This one is of just T and I, so it didn't make the cut for the Christmas card, but I love it so much I have to share it here.  

And we got a few pics of us girlies!  

We are not big Black Friday people, in fact, we have only ever made one purchase on Black Friday.  Really, the whole Black Friday thing seems rather counter intuitive to how we do Christmas with a budget and a plan, but hey, no judgement here if it's your thing (unless you pepper sprayed anyone and then, shame on you!).  So instead of participating in mass consumerism we decided to create some family memories and enjoy the crazy warm weather by packing up our cute little family and heading over to the FTW Zoo.  I mean really, where else can you spend a gorgeous day at the zoo in late November but Texas?  So we took advantage and took the little miss to see the animals.  

Little miss loved the penguins and turtles and then just really loved all the people watching.  The cooler weather meant that all the animals were out and very active, rather than in the summer when they are either indoors or lounging in the shade. We saw a zebra get a full run going, which was stunning.  

Aren't these two just the most handsome date to the zoo a girl could ever have?!

On Saturday we started decorating the tree for the holidays and met up with friends for lunch.  Little miss and I also got some time together so we decided to pop over to the mall to say "hey!" to a friend that just picked up a part time job there.  And I am so glad I did because little miss was hilarious!  Every time we stepped out into the main mall crowd she would grin and bounce up and down--she was definitely excited to be around all the people.  

Sunday was more decorating and resting and family time and just sort of soaking up the last bit of family time together before a hectic week.  

How was your Thanksgiving holiday?  

Over the Weekend

I am just going to warn you.  If you are looking for a magical over the weekend post with fun pictures of mommas and baby and dads having adventures, this post isn't going to be that.  

Thursday night I got violently ill with a flu virus.   At 4am when it looked like it wasn't a fluke and I might just die, I rolled over and sent two texted, one to my aunt who lives around the corner to see if she could come help with the little miss during the day and one to my sister to see if she could come help T disinfect the house after she got off work so that no one else would get this devil.  I will spare you the gross details but let's just say it took until Sunday night for me to have a real meal and my "meal" was a dry baked potato.  Awesome.  

The upside is my two favorite ladies pulled through, so little miss was very happy and well cared for and my house is sparkling clean and germ free. And of course T was super dad over the weekend taking little miss out on mini-adventures that they would then come back and recount to me.  There might have been some Christmas decoration gazing and petting puppies involved--those two are just too much fun when they get together!

The down side is that all then thing I planned on wrapping up, taking photos of and getting listed in the shop were delayed. But don't forget you can still enter the giveaway until midnight tonight! 

So that's what happened over my weekend, did anyone doing anything fun or have an adventure?  Since I stayed in bed all weekend I would love to hear what you were up to!