Coming soon...

I'm so far behind!!! I seriously don't know where these past few months have gone, let alone the past few weeks! I have lots of good posts coming up, I promise!!! In the meantime, I'll leave you with the two cutest little girls in the whole wide world...seriously, how lucky am I that they are MINE?! :)

OUCH!

Well, it happened. One of those firsts that you really wish your child never has...the first trip to the Emergency Room :( This particular first happened for Allie last Sunday morning. The girls had spent the night at Matt's parents house on Saturday night so that Matt and I could have a date night and do some of our Christmas shopping together. We, of course, planned on a nice, quiet night together, followed by a nice, quiet morning of sleeping in. Well, it didn't quite happen that way.

On Sunday morning at about 4:00 in the morning we got 'the call'. Allie had fallen out of bed and hit her head on the nightstand. It's so weird because she has been in a 'big bed' since she was 20 months old and has NEVER fallen out. AND, she's spent the night at both Matt's parents house and my parents house hundreds of times and again, has never fallen out (she sleeps in a QUEEN too!) She must have been having a bad dream or something and wiggled really close to the edge and gone overboard. Anyways, we immediately got in the car to go pick her up. Luckily she wasn't crying anymore when we got there but we took one look at her and knew immediately that we needed to take her to the ER. My brother always told me that unless we were calling 911 we should always take our kids to Phoenix Children's Hospital so that's what we did and we were soooo glad.

Allie was awesome pretty much the entire time we were there. We had to do a LOT of waiting (we were there for over 3 hours) but she was smiling, laughing and playing. She got to watch movies (all of the rooms have tv's and dvd players in them) so she was very entertained. The cut happened right above her left eye and was partly in her eyebrow. This is a good thing when it comes to scaring but bad because they could have just used the Dermabond (glue) to close it, but apparentely it doesn't work in hair so they had to stitch it. She totally lost it when they had to give her the shots to numb it (I don't blame her!) and she wasn't too happy when the doctor was stitching it, but she really did a good job and was perfect as soon as it was over.

I never thought our cautious little princess would get her first big ouchie this early but I'm glad it was VERY minor and that it's OVER! And so is she!

Yikes :(

Luckily she was happy most of the time

So glad it's over!

All stitched up!

Of course we took her to Target after and let her pick out whatever she wanted (at that point we probably would have gotten her an iPad if she wanted it, we felt so bad for her) Lucky for us, she wanted the chef's outfit (really she just wanted the hat:)

School Picture

Allie got her very first school picture taken last month. She's usually pretty good in front of a camera (although I have NO problem at all bribing her with M&M's to get her to smile. And she is not like her sister who now runs away from me when I pull out the camera :) I've seen my fair share of school pictures... There's the awkward smile, the goofy smile, the 'I'm not paying attention and looking off into lala land' smile and the 'I'm not smiling at you lady' (un)smile. But Allie, being the little princess that she, is gave us a fabulous FIRST school picture :)

Sweet Home Alabama

Last month I finally got the chance to visit one of my good friends out in Birmingham. Meredith and I have known each other since high school. Between the two of us I think we've moved about a gagillion times and lived in multiple states but we've always kept in touch. ALSO, another one of our friends from high school was able to drive down from Memphis to spend a few days with us. I've known Crystal since elementary school so these two girls and I have a LOT of history and memories together. We had so much fun just hanging out and catching up. And, I'm so excited that Meredith's amazing hubby got a fellowship in Dallas so they will be moving just a bit closer to us next year. A girls trip might be in our future :)
Mere's sweet little girl Ellis

We went to a park and they had an awesome teeter-totter, of course Crystal and I had to try it out

Then Mere's boy Lee joined in on the fun

It's not a real girls night without some wine (and yes we bought all of those bottles:)

Friends :)

Oh and one of the best parts of the trip was the fact that I actually got to see a REAL Fall! It's been 10 years since I've been somewhere when you can really see the leaves change. It was absolutely gorgeous the whole week, picture's just don't do it justice!

Country Fair

A couple weeks ago at Allie's preschool they had an event called Country Fair. It was pretty much like, well, exactly how it sounds...a country fair. I, of course, had to go and check it out (and take pictures:) Allie had a blast...

The whole gym was decorated and set up like a mini fair

Each class made a certain kind of 'puff art'

All the kiddos dressed up in their cowboy/cowgirl attire

They had tons of activities like hand stamps, fishing for ducks, ring toss, bowling, pulling a bucket out of a well, horse riding






After each activity, they got to get a piece of candy or a toy for thier bucket


I live for stuff like this and love it that her preschool does fun events like this!