Merry Christmas!

May His love surround you, protect you, and be with you on Christmas and always!

My baby girl at 4 months!

Here in her Thanksgiving outfit and her Christmas outfit. Love the turkey dress...it was a have to have dress the moment I saw it at the craft fair. And she looked oh so cute in it too. She's sleeping through the night now 12+ hours and here in there she'll get up at 4 to nurse. She's still a dream baby. Perfectly happy 99.9 % of the time. She drools ALL the time and EVERYWHERE. Bibs are a must with her (however, I don't like them.) She is a finger sucker. Normally it's 2 fingers at a time. Doesn't care for the pacifier but will take it on occasion. She is absolutely in LOVE with Parker...they are buddies. She thinks he's the funniest thing ever. She only laughs the belly laughs with him. Cole likes to jump on and hurt the little girl...I don't see them being too good of buddies at all. He LOVES to scare her and see her jump out of her skin. Not nice at all. She's getting so big and already it seems like I was never pregnant. We are holding off on cereal til closer to 6 months, but not certain we will make it that long. She's been eying our food already and salivates even more at it's sight. Oh how I just love this little girl more than you know! ;)

It's been awhile...

and I have been BUSY! So busy and stressed to the point I had a migraine Friday. I've only had 2 others and they were almost exactly 4 years ago. Not fun, but thank goodness Bill was home and able to take off work to be with the kids while I slept it off.

Anyway, back to BUSY! It's been non stop around here since oh about my last post. I've been busy with photography and getting all that wrapped up in time for Christmas. I designed 4 sets of Christmas cards this year as well...ours included. Between editing, taking pictures, and editing some more I've decided to "take a break" from photography for awhile. Having 3 kids takes a lot out of a mom and I need to give more of me to my kids right now...to ENJOY them. I still have my peeps that will ALWAYS be on my picture taking list and they know who they are. I want it to remain fun and by stepping back I'm hoping that my love for it will come back as well. The last thing I want is it to feel like a job and right now that is how I feel. While my break isn't a total break from photography...Lord knows how much stuff I have on the back burner right now waiting til after the holidays. It's merely, not taking any new clients I suppose. ;)

So the other night I took some pics of our Christmas tree (the big one!) Yes, we have more than one. Actually, we have 6. The kids each have a little table top tree in their rooms decorated to the theme in their room. Chloe's is pink and all girly. Cole's is done is sports balls. Parker's is transportation themed. In the bonus room we have our "sentimental tree." Those ornaments haven't been up for a couple years because of Cole and most likely will not be up next year either because of Chloe. In the dining room, I put up a little 4 ft tree...not much to it. ;) The "big tree" for those that are wondering is all SHATTERPROOF! I learned this was the only way to go since Parker's second Christmas. I'm sure it will remain for the next several years as well! lol

I have taken pics...lots of pictures of the kiddos, but I have yet to edit any of them. I hope to do a couple at least in the next few days and get them posted. I'm not even sure what else to say after all this mumbo jumbo....lol!