Christmas Celebration #2

On the eve of Christmas Eve, we loaded up to make the 8 hour trip up to Indy for our second round of Christmas festivities. This was Lilah's first trip to Carmel and first long road trip. She did great!! We only had to make three stops (one right outside of Nashville, one in Kentucky, and one in Indiana). She slept a good bit of the trip. While awake, I sat in the back and kept her entertained and she was as content as could be.

We continued our Christmas Eve tradition with our newest little addition to the family by going to church followed by a nice dinner. This year we went to Cooper's Hawk Winery and Restaurant. Dinner was delicious!! Lilah got a little bored at dinner which led to rotating shifts of walking her around the restaurant for a change of scenery once and while. Despite the interruptions, we all had a blast!

{Here is Lilah with her Grammy just before leaving for church.}

{A Silent Night just before church}

{Family Photo}

We woke up early on Christmas Day to open presents! Sweet baby girl sure did get spoiled!! Santa wrapped all of Lilah's gifts in cute pink penguin paper. Here she is trying to tear into someone else's gift!

Opening up her present from Uncle Donnie. (I got a new video camera from my wonderful mother-in-law so I've been doing a lot of playing with my new toy. With that being said, here is another video of Lilah opening her presents.)

One of the gifts from my dad to the adults was a packet of pull-tabs. Pull-tabs are similar to lotto tickets. Basically you just pull the tabs to see if your ticket is a winner. Simple concept, huh!?

Lilah loved playing with the losing tickets and mother of the year over here let her go to town.

Winner, Winner Chicken Dinner!

In case you were wondering if anyone of us walked away a winner...in total, we won about $18. My dad went and turned in the winners and bought $10 worth of new tickets and ended up coming away with a $250 winning ticket! Score!!

{Lilah sporting her new Chicago Bears attire from her Uncle Donnie. GO BEARS!}


{Uncle Donnie and Lilah Belle}

The morning that we were heading out of town, it SNOWED!!! Before we headed back to Birmingham, we had to do a little playing. Lilah is wearing a snowsuit that was mine when I was a baby. It was a little snug on her but she looked oh-so-precious in it!

December 27, 2011: Lilah's first encounter with snow.

All bundled up!

Trying to catch the flakes

Papa and Baby

We hope everyone had a very, Merry Christmas!!

Christmas Celebration #1

Santa visited our house early since we wouldn't be in town Christmas day. This year, Lilah was more interested in eating the wrapping paper and gift bags than the presents themselves.

She did get some fun stuff though...including her first play kitchen, books, an Auburn dress, teddy bear, and her very own laptop (Fisher Price, of course!). Santa was very good to my sweet girl!

And...a little video of baby girl opening her very first present!

Welcome Mary Morgan!

My very sweet boss and friend welcomed her second baby girl yesterday afternoon.

Welcome to the world Baby Mary Morgan!!
I just know you and Lilah will be the best of friends one day! :)



Here she is in the little bloomers we got her.
Precious little Christmas Baby!!

Festive Baby!

I think it is pretty obvious that I am obsessed with dressing up my baby girl in holiday attire!

I'm also crazy about taking daily pictures of our sweet angel in her little outfits. Her clothes are just so darn cute and I feel the need to document every little outfit she wears! I swear the girl dresses 1,000,000 times better than I do!

We are just *SO* excited about celebrating Christmas this year with our little one! She obviously has been a very good girl judging by the amount of presents under the tree with her name on it!

Lilah: 25 Weeks

Lilah: 24 Weeks

My little Roly Poly.

Little Miss will not stay on her back for very long these days. We'll set her down on her back and before we know it she's flipped over to her tummy.

Lilah: 23 Weeks

Christmas Baby!

Celebration of the Nativity

Last week was Celebration of the Nativity--Lilah's first school performance. Her class kicked off the program by being strolled down the aisles to "All I Want for Christmas."

{Ms. Marjory and Ms. Brenda leading the Infant 1 class} {Laid back in the front row}


{After the performance the parents were invited to enjoy brunch}

{And after brunch, we had to check on our little shining star}

Lilah: 22 Weeks

I'm a little behind! This was taken last week. Will post this week's picture very soon!

A Post of Firsts!

The past few days have been full of "firsts" for Miss Lilah Belle...

::First trip to Nana's in Elba::

::First Thanksgiving::

::First Ride on the Gator::

::First Christmas Tree Picking::

::First Iron Bowl::

{Sadly, Auburn lost this year.}

::First time in the Jumper::

::Momma's first attempt at making homemade baby food::



::First taste of something other than milk!::




My little green bean face!