Elleigh Celebrating Christmas with Friends

On Friday night Elleigh hosted a Christmas party for 7 of her friends. I made some of Elleigh's favorite treats for them to enjoy, they decorated cookies to take home to share with their family, played a game, made a keepsake ornament with a picture of the girls at the party, danced to Disney Christmas hits, and were just plain silly! A made his wonderful homeade hot chocolate for them too. He and Lizzie and Sallie left for a while so that Elleigh could have some alone time with her friends. As you can see in some of the pictures her friends love her little sisters!

Sitting in my Bumbo makes me SO tired!

OUTTAKES

Remember my post on too many characters, well these are some of the pictures I took to use on the card that would not let me enter all our names-too many characters! So, I had to share the outtakes with you. There were a few good ones but there were a lot of funny ones too. I must say they were not funny to me at the time but now I can laugh about it! I am sure I will treasure these! Keep in mind these are not ALL the outtakes but a few of the best!

Lizzie is not happy! She doesn't want to SIT anywhere!A has had enough! Notice Lizzie on the left hip, Sallie on his back and he is pushing Millie! Look at his shirt! This is very indicative of our photo shoot!!!Lizzie running away!Elleigh has the flared nostrils! She is tired of this! Sallie thinks it is all hilarious!Even Millie has had enough! My assistant (AKA daddy) intervenes!

OOOOH SANTA!

I think I ask myself every day why did I put up Christmas decorations! I have finally got Lizzie to stop taking ornaments off our big tree (after she broke a few I might add). Now today she thought the tree in the dining room needed re-decorating and then on to SANTA! Elleigh and I were singing Santa Clause is coming to town to her this afternoon (because she was being bad!) and Elleigh decides to show her the Santa on the end table-thanks Ell!!! So, now our attention is turned to all my Santas!!! No, I didn't expect any different this year (or next)!

Millie is 4 Months Old!

I think she gets sweeter every day! I am SO anxious for many of you who haven't met our 4th little darling to meet Millie! It won't be long! Can you tell I am a little excited?

Celebrating Christmas with Friends!

On Saturday, I hosted a brunch for the ladies in my Supper Club. In November of 2006 we began a supper club. A couple of us knew each other but we did not all know each other and through a couple of the ladies talking about the idea a group of 6 of us were formed and we have gotten together for a meal once a month since then. We choose a theme each month and then each make a dish and get together at one of our homes and share our food and recipes. Most of all though we share our lives with each other. I am so grateful for these ladies! The 6 of us have 20 children ranging in age from 20 plus to 4 months so we have lots to share. 5 of those 20 were added this year! In August Millie was born, in October Jennifer adopted 3 children (and is a first time mom) and in November Angie adopted her 4th child (who is 3 days younger than Lizzie) so we have had lots going on! Our husbands are all at different points in their ministry which is such a blessing because we can all learn from each other. It is great to take a break from our every day routines once a month to get together and catch up with a group of wonderful Christian women and share our struggles and our victories!

The Supper Club GirlsPartial shot of my dining room-another good thing about supper club is that I actually get to use my china!

CHRISTMAS MUSICAL

Elleigh was in the Children's Musical at church this weekend. They presented the musical on Saturday and Sunday night and did a great job. They began auditions in August and then immediately started practicing each week and then lots more practicing over the past few weeks. The kids and the leaders put a lot of work into it. I have added a video in which Elleigh is a prophet (second from the right). Make sure your sound is on. It is a cute song! Then there is a slideshow of additional photos.

EXTRA PASSENGER

We have one extra seat in the van and I guess Sallie thinks we need one more passenger so she added one! Notice she made sure to buckle him up! I say him but to be in our car and not be daddy it would have to be a girl, right!

No, I don't ALWAYS have my camera with me but we were on our way to Elleigh's musical so I had it to capture this.