Christmas Fun!

This year getting ready for Christmas has been a new level of fun! In previous posts you saw how we decorated the apartment. And then our pretty Christmas pictures. Here are the latest Christmas activities Lexi has been up to!

Helping make Christmas cookies

Getting ready to decorate (or maybe eat) one.
Yep- eating it is much more fun than decorating!

"Mom, I REALLY like sugar!!"

A much needed bath, after eating her 1st Christmas cookie!

Last weekend was A Dickens of a Christmas in downtown Franklin. Mom didn't take too many pictures. It was pretty cold, but Lexi seemed to like it for the most part.

Here she is all bundled up & keeping warm w/Daddy.

They had a little petting zoo, which she obviously wasn't old enough for. So we just looked at the animals through the fence. This was probably her favorite part of the day.

Here are some other things Lexi has been doing this month...

She loves to help mom fold clothes. :)

She LOVES standing. She really hates sitting down to play. I'm sure walking isn't too far away.

Just being cute, as usual!

Learning how to text. Ha! Ok, so not really. But she does love to have people talk to her on the phone. She especially lights up when she hears daddy's voice!

We are so thankful for such a beautiful, healthy baby girl! We look forward to teaching her the true meaning of Christmas in the coming years. The decorating, baking, etc. is fun, but Christmas is about so much more than that. Our prayer is that we never get so caught up in "fun" of Christmas that we loose sight of what the Lord has done for us. May we always worship & praise Him. Not just this time of year, but always!

Some of Lexi's talents...

Here Lexi can be seen showcasing a few of her talents. She is learning to play drums and is picking up singing very well! Don't worry, we'll be making money off her in no time. ha!

In all seriousness, she loves that she can create all these new noises and be so loud. It's a joyful noise to mom & dad's ears!

Merry Christmas!

I cannot believe Christmas is less than 2 weeks away. We are so excited to spend this Christmas together as a family! Thank you to Andrea McKay for taking these pictures for us.

We hope you all have a very blessed & merry Christmas! We love you!

Christmas time is here!

This year we decorated for Christmas the day after Thanksgiving. It was one of the few free days we had w/Mike. He is going to be very busy the first part of December. Lexi was a great helper!! We are so excited to have our 1st family Christmas with her this year!

Trying to get the tree out of the box.

A little harder than she originally thought. :)

This is the look she gave the tree the rest of the day.

She really liked the lights! She even offered the help dad see if all of them worked.

Inspecting all of the decorations.

There are 3 stockings this year!!!

Happy Thanksgiving!

We wanted to wish everyone a happy Thanksgiving (a day late). Lexi had a great 1st Thanksgiving! Mike & I are so very thankful for this precious child the Lord has given to us. We love all of you so much and are thankful for you too!

CRAWLING!

That's right... Lexi is crawling!!! Mom & Dad weren't sure it was ever going to happen. Now life will never be the same. :)

FALL

Over the weekend (in between Lexi being sick & me picking up what she had) we were able to go enjoy the beautiful fall weather down here! It's was in the 70's all weekend. We finally went and checked out a park not too far from our apartment. It's awesome!! Lexi got to trying swinging for the 1st time. She was more interested in the girl swinging next to her. She also got to play in the leaves. I'm sure she thinks we are totally crazy... the things we put her through. ha! As long as it makes for a good picture, right?!?? :)

This is as close as we could get, to her looking at the camera.

Snuggling dad on the way back to the car. It may have been a little colder than we thought it would be. Never fear... dad fixed the problem!

I feel this is an appropriate picture to end on. She is such a goof! We love her more than words could possibly describe!

Excitement!

We have a new way to express our excitement around here. Lexi has figured out how to make the dog sing to her. She gets really excited when she gets it to sing a certain song. It's so cute to sit and watch her figure new things out. She just keeps growing up. We are loving every single minute of it!

Pink Leopard

Friday night our church had it's annual Fall Festival. Last year after Halloween we bought a costume on clearance for Lexi. We totally guessed on the size... and we were wrong. ha! That's okay though... we were able to find something just as cute!! We took a very, very cute pink leopard! Lexi & I came home before it was over. She isn't much of a night owl. That's alright... it was still fun!!

uh... what's on my head???

still trying to figure out what the deal w/the pumpkin is

we thought about starting a zoo... this is Lexi the Leopard with her friend Nadia the Monkey!