She is 5 AND I am 35 time goes too fast

Its hard to believe that I have a 5 year old and I am
5 years away from hitting 40.. I am not dreading 40
but I can remember when i thought 40 was old.
Now its not even close to old.. What you think when you are
young..
My sweet husband pulled one on me and got a sitter without
my help, planned a fun evening of surprises for me.

We first had dinner out with some of our closest friends
at one of my favorite restaurants Bonefish Grill..MMMMMM
Then we went for desert and drinks at Morton's. Too much fun
and then went home to kids in bed, house cleaned up and a relaxing movie
together with no interuptions..

After that, the next day we had a double celebration
with our family with presents, ice cafe and pizza...

thanks honey for being the amazing man I married
I love you

Christmas Eve Family Shots

The kids were dressed so cute, we attempted a few
family shots before going to bed.

Christmas outfits from Nana.. Thank goodness it was cooler so we
could wear them. They were too cute, thank you Nana

The Blanchard Boys

The Blanchard Family

Three generations

The Ladies of the family

The many hats of Christmas

Nana is well known in our family for bringing out all kinds of
hats for everyone to wear around Christmas
Here are a few that came out this year as they were all at our house this year

Dr Seuss Christmas hat

Even Pops wore it..

Too cute

Then of course Rudolf had to make an appearance too

Ellie's Christmas Program

Ellie's Pre-K 4 Christmas program was so cute. Ellie
had a new dress to wear that a friend of mine made for her.
She looked like a snow princess.... perfect for her show.

Ellie and her buddy Nate are in the same class again this year.

My snowbabies

Ellie had a visit from Santa and she loved telling him all the things
she wanted for Christmas.

Ellie's Birthday celebration at school

The pre-school Ellie goes to always does a big celebration
for each child's birthday. Usually there are 4 to 6 kids celebrating together
with all the kids from their age group classes.. This year Noah
was old enough to enjoy and when he saw Ellie this is what happen.

Too precious. I know that will change as they get older,
but for now I am going to love every moment of it.

Mrs Kim singing to Ellie with her cake

blowing out the candles

Everyone in Ellie's class make her a picture and then puts
it into a book for her to have as their gift.

Ellie loves these books, she still looks at the one from last year.

Birthday kids for December.

Cupcakes.. even Noah gets one.

My big girl...

Making a Gingerbread house

We had some friends over one Friday night to make our
first gingerbread house..

The girls had a blast figuring out how to decorate the house

Whalaa.... Finished product...too much fun