Brrr!

It is finally cold here in Fort Worth. Here's ML all bundled up and ready to take Anna Grace to school.

Advent

Anna Grace was so excited about the advent wreath that she made during sunday school today. Nightly advent devotionals are one of my treasured memories of the holiday season with my family. I am looking forward to starting that tradition in our home.

Exersaucer

This post is for Nonna. One of her favorite pictures of all time of Anna Grace was her first spin in the exersaucer that she gave us. Morgan Leigh gave it a spin today and loved it just as much!

Parade of Lights

We have lived in Fort Worth for over 10 years. 10 years, and this was our first trip downtown for the parade! I thought it was probably very similar to the stockshow parade. You know, walk up 10 minutes before the start, plant a chair and enjoy the horses. Wrong, wrong, and so wrong!

The parade was awesome and we got to enjoy it with our friends! Thank y'all so much for thinking to buy seats. It was much more enjoyable that way! Here are the kids, I love that Eli is totally not into this :)

And lastly, seeing the final float with Santa. Anna Grace through the whole parade kept going "Mommy, mommy look!" It was fantastic and will be a tradition any time we are in Fort Worth.

Gigi and Grandpa

Gigi and Grandpa came for a visit for the Thanksgiving holiday. We had such a good time with them here! Thanks for coming, for playing and for babysitting. Love you!

Happy Thanksgiving Y'all!

We had such a wonderful Thanksgiving this year. We had been blessed with so many things to be thankful for! We celebrated this year with Matt's parents coming to Fort Worth. This was officially my first time making the whole meal without my mom. Here are some of my favorite shots from yesterday.

We managed to snap one family shot right after dinner and before Matt and I left for the game. And of course, there were 2 cameras so the best one has us looking in different directions :)

The girls!

And lastly, Matt and I near the end of the tu game. What a way to spend Thanksgiving!

5 Months!

Morgan Leigh is 5 months old. Officially, that was Monday. (I am was a little slow still this week because of the flu) She is getting so strong! She loves to sit up on your lap now and will pull herself up if she is reclining in anyway. This picture also captures her laying on her new rug. Nonna and V asked what we "needed" and this was their gift to us for her birth. It is so cute with the bedding the Nonna made. ML is also chewing on her tongue which is a new habit of hers. It made it hard to capture her gorgeous smile this afternoon :)

Baylor game

Another downside to being sick is that I didn't have the resources to leave ML for Saturday's game. Matt decided to take AG and she could hardly wait to get out the door. She put her shoes on and was ready to go, daddy was taking far too long packing. He was concerned, and rightly so, about the weather for the game. It took him about 10 trips to the car and back. :)

Here they are at the wet and cold game. I am glad there is another game right around the corner that I will get to attend. :)

More parties

I called the doctor early Friday morning worried that AG had gotten the flu bug that her daddy and I had this past week. Matt took her in and the doctor assured us, it wasn't the flu, but rather a double ear infection. It was so severe that he couldn't believe she hadn't complained of it. The good news for her was that she was cleared to go to a birthday party that evening.

Anna Grace was ecstatic to go to her friend Tyler's party. Here she is posing with the birthday girl.

And getting the cutest, sparkly bumble bee painted on her face. She had a blast and I was so glad that her double ear infection did nothing to slow her down.

The party looked like so much fun, and I can't believe I had to miss it! Thanks for having her y'all!

Morgan Leigh and V

A friend of mine has insisted for a long time that my dad, Grandpa V, is who Morgan Leigh looks like. Chris sent this to me yesterday and she does look like him in these shots!

Silly!

AG was being silly with some of the stickers left over from the party today. She had them all over her face :)

And ML is wearing one of AG's outfits with a great big grin.

No fear

We went to two birthday parties on Sunday. AG and I went to one for Madison at a jump place. She didn't know anyone but Madison and that didn't intimidate her in the slightest. We walked in the door, she kicked off her shoes and took off. Here she is on a giant slide. We had a great time, thanks for the invite Madison.

Fancy Nancy

Our bookstore had a Fancy Nancy party today and it was so fun. We met a friend there and had a very girlie outing. They read some stories, made some jewelry and had a little tea party with fancy hot chocolate! What a great way to spend an hour or two.

Here's Anna Grace enjoying her hot chocolate (it was her first taste and was done after a few sips)

Rah Rah TCU

After homecoming at TCU AG has walked around with her pompoms chanting rah rah TCU. Today, she really got into it when she saw where College Gameday was filming. Sometimes it's fun to root for a team that has cheerleaders :)

Excuses, excuses

Matt was in Detroit this week for work and it left me totally out of sorts. I didn't do anything extra, including take pictures or blog. So today even though he was at work, I was able to snap a few pictures. I bought the girls matching pants a few weeks ago and Anna Grace has been asking all the time to wear them.

As usual, Morgan Leigh is a much more willing participant when the camera comes out :) We are glad the week without daddy is over and very thankful that isn't our normal routine.

Aggie game

We decided to head up to Chimy's for the Aggie Game today. It was on a channel we didn't get and we thought we'd watch as much as we could with the girls in tow. AG burst into tears when we walked in the door because she thought we were GOING to the game, but brightened up once the changa mud came. We let a few of our friends know where we were and had a couple of full tables to watch them lose by a single point. It was a fun way to spend the afternoon.

New outfit

I wanted to get a shot of Morgan Leigh today in a new outfit from Matt's Uncle Rick and Aunt Susan. It is just adorable and perfect for today's weather. What a patient little one I have!

I snapped quite a few pictures today, but didn't even realize that this is so eerily similar to one of my favorite shots of AG when she was almost exactly the same age. AG just happened to be in a Christmas dress!

Picnic

We took advantage of the gorgeou 75 degree day here in Texas and headed to the Botanic Gardens for a picnic with the Cox's. We sure haven't seen enough of them this fall, and we are trying to be better about planning these get togethers. Here are some shots of our lunch :)

Tyler and Weston both wanted to hold Morgan Leigh, but I wasn't quick enough to get the camera out to capture Tyler with her.

I was getting read to take a couple of pictures of the 3 of them together. Anna Grace tackled Tyler trying to pose. My old camera never would have snapped fast enough for this :) They ended up both lying down but giggling all the while.

Lastly, a shot of them all together. It was so much fun y'all! We look forward to all seeing you soon.

Nickname!

It's been almost a year since I asked everyone for nickname suggestions for our littlest one. Anna Grace insisted from the very beginning that she was going to have a sister. Shortly after she was born AG also insisted that she be nicknamed cupcake. Tricia and Adam sent this cute little sleeper, with a cupcake even. I have been meaning to capture in it for months :)