A Giveaway you shouldn't miss - Pitter Patter Art

I have been eyeing things by Laura Kelley at Pitter Patter Art for awhile. She has an amazing talent and makes the best of everything she does, seriously! Their family journey is an amazing one too and makes me love her ever more.

I'm blogging about the Christmas Giveaway she's doing. She's giving away a $25 gift certificate for her original artwork and goodies. I wanted to pass along the chance, but know that I hope I win hehe

Go HERE now to enter!!! Oh, and be sure to look at all her wonderful things, she's really really good!

Christmas is coming

If you haven't quite noticed I'm beginning to get into the Holiday spirit. Given my blog a makeover, thanks to Shabby Blogs, and it's even snowing in here :) LOVE IT!

This past Sunday we did our first Holiday fun thing. We went to the Donelson/Hermitage Christmas parade. It was a blast. There were quite a few things in the parade actually and I was bad about picture taking. My camera wasn't my friend this night... I'm not very good with pictures in the dark... so anyway. Snow bird was there, our local news weather mascot. The Grinch was there - twice and then Santa made an appearance at the end. Such a fun time.

Here are the pics I did get.

All bundled up and totally cute!


Never without her silly face though



She wanted to take a pic of us acting cold, lol. I was making some weird oooo as in cold face hehe

There's Snow Bird

The Shriners had the cutest vehicles and clowns.

Look at this little rig... so cute.

And the pic that is now in my header we took that night of all three of us bundled up. We'll be doing this every year. Girlie loved it and so did James. It was her first Christmas parade!

Our next fun Christmas thing will be going to ICE! Can't wait!

First Swim Meet - finally!

I've had my camera back for a bit but I just now had a chance to upload the pictures from Girlie's swim meet I posted the video from.

I'm so lucky that someone returned my camera unharmed. I owe you big coach Jennifer from Oakland High School!

Finally pics from the big day!

all decked out in her PCA swimwear. Doesn't she look so proud?




The team right before they started

Her first heat. The 25 Freestyle. She placed last (she's only 4 people)

Giving it all she's got...

Her second heat 50 Freestyle, again with last place (and again she's only 4 people)

Getting ready to push off for her last heat 25 backstroke

ROCKIN' IT!

In the locker room afterward showing off her arm with her heat & lane listed. (THIS is where I left my camera *sigh* )

Our swimmer! So proud of her medal! WAY TO GO! WAY TO GO SEALIONS!

We are so proud of her. Most importantly, she's proud of herself and LOVES it. :) I'll be posting more about her meets so keep checking back!

Aren't you glad my camera was found? Boy, I sure am!

Mega Update!

I'm pretty far behind in my updating! :) Sorry about that. So to make up for it I'm posting a ton of pictures. We had a great Thanksgiving but I'm going to start a few days before that.

On Monday before Thanksgiving we had the pleasure of going to a Predators game. We got tickets through work and boy were we spoiled!! We were in the suites with CENTER ice view. Awesome...



Girlie LOVED it. Her very first words the minute we walked out of the suite after the game was "can we come back soon"




James loved it too!

Thanks Mom for getting us the tickets!!

The suite! It had it's own restroom - get out!!

My two fav peeps enjoying the game.

US!

FANG FINGERS *eek-eek*

We had a blast and YAY the Preds beat the Red Wings. It was great!

Wednesday I took off work. I still had to go to my clients office and I took her with me. I knew she'd be in the car a great deal that day so we stopped off after my client to a place called Monkey's Treehouse. It was our first time there and it was cute. She really liked it. It's a much smaller version of the Discovery Center we visit in Murfreesboro, but it was really nice and I loved that I didn't have to pay for myself.

Look how cute she was dressed. My little diva.

She loved climbing all over things and going in and out of the treehouse.

Then came Thanksgiving. We went to Louisville Wednesday evening. Thursday morning we were up and ready to hit the food :)

Me and my girlie before we ate!

Cheesing for the camera!

With Bitty!

We did have a great holiday and we have so much to be Thankful for. YOU are one of them and we are blessed to have you in our lives! It's already December and we have SO MUCH coming up soon. We have a visit from friends (WE CAN'T WAIT), Girlie's school Christmas play, Christmas and then she turns 5!! What a busy month it will be!

Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving and Happy Decemeber!

Swimmin' Girlie

Saturday was Girlie's first swim meet with her swim team the PCA Sea Lions :) She competed in three different heats, 25 Freestyle, 50 Freestyle and 25 backstroke. Her freestyle was just that "free" but her backstroke was completely "UH-MAZING!" She rocked it.

I don't have any pictures to share because stupid me totally left my camera on a bench in the girls locker room there and I called this morning and am hoping with all hope that someone was nice and turned it in, but my nice camera might be gone forever :( I'm holding out some hope but I'm afraid it might be gone. But anyway, here is the video of her backstroke. She's at the top of the screen and TURN DOWN/OFF YOUR SOUND! I'm loud screaming during it. I was so excited!

beautiful backstroke

We are so proud of her. She did so great! She loved it too and couldn't wait to tell everyone how she did!

Hoping I find my camera so I can share pics!

Thanksgiving luncheon at school

Just a few hours ago we headed over to Girlie's school to have lunch with her for Thanksgiving. I just love this luncheon. It's only our second one but it's so wonderful. The food it devine and the company is even better!

We had a wonderful Turkey day meal and spent some time with our girlie too. She had four people there with her, loved much? I kept calling us Girlie's Entourage!!

My cute girlie this morning before school (I made her shirt for today)

Waiting patiently for her food

In her Indian hat she made

The proud parents

Me and my girlie

Look at our cute family!

Then we add one more and it just gets better (with Nannie)

Then we add another and we become HER ENTOURAGE (with Aunt Shelly)

It was a great time. We have lots more wonderful meals coming up, check back for more pics from the holidays!

Project No. 4,101,230

I'm always into something... always! With the holidays coming up there are lots of parties and get togethers and I LOVE it all!

Girlie's school is no exception and I get involved there any way I can. They are super great to their teachers and always have a Christmas party for them. This year they are having a spa themed party and I was asked to make the invitation. They wanted it Christmasy and this is what I came up with



I like the way they turned out and I can't wait for them to see them. I'll be dropping them off tonight.

Now it's on to invitations for Girlie's birthday party. I'm having the hardest time loving something. I've got a million ideas swimming around too. Ah, something will come to me.

Hope everyone is having a splendid week!