Christmas Beauty

Just a couple of pictures that I snapped of Hailey after church today :) such a beautiful dress!

Christmas Beauty

Hailey's First Christmas

This Christmas was a very special Christmas. I always look forward to this time of year, but this year was going to be extra fun. We got home on Christmas Eve and made cookies for Santa. I COULD NOT wait to get started on Christmas morning! Of course HB slept in, so by the time she got done eating, I was about to jump out of my skin. We ran and woke daddy up and told him we wanted to see what santa had brought us!! We got the camera out and ready to capture every moment. I sat HB in front of all her presents and she immediately reached out for one, by this point, she knew exactly what to do! She started opening all Santa left. Her main gifts were a 'Jenny Jump Up' and a walker. Unfort the walker didnt work out as planned... she couldn't even touch the ground! haha. So needless to say, the point of a walker wasn't going to work out. I was really upset about this one cause I was so excited about giving it to her because she had enjoyed our friends so much. So I am still on the look out for one :)
I had a fast one pulled over on me this year. Dustin did a great job this year as he does every year. My first present was butcher block cutting board from Paula Dean. I have always wanted one of these, so I was very excited! I also got a beautiful North Face jacket which I always love. But all of a sudden I feel a box in the pocket, and it was jewelry!! Dustin gave me a ring from the "Open Hearts" collection from Kay. He explained to me that it had one big heart and one small heart so that I could always remember Hailey's first Christmas. It was the sweetest and most thoughtful thing!! Felt like I was straight out of a commerical!
I was able to be a little sneaky myself and suprise him with a new 29 gallon fish tank! He was so shocked and surprised :) We all had a great Christmas and it will be one to always remember! Thank you to everyone for our gifts, we have been putting them all to good use :) Only 364 more days to go....

Haileys first Christmas

Garner Family Christmas

We started off Christmas Eve at the Bagwell family Christmas (pics to come soon) It was good to get together with everyone. It is such a big family, so Hailey was taking in a lot. She had so much fun hanging out with all of her cousins. She loves to spend time with kids. After we got done there, we headed out for home to relax a little bit before our churches Christmas Eve service. It was AWESOME!! The music was so good and the production was well thought out. Hailey loved seeing all the flashing lights and loud music :) She was suppose to be sleeping.. but there was no way she was going to miss any of the action.
After the service, we headed to mom and dads house. We had a great spaghetti dinner and got in a lot of laughs at the dinner table. Once it was time to start the gifts.. we had to open our way to our seats as dad would say. GG def. loves her baby girl. She got so many wonderful gifts from her, and even personalized ones. My favorite one was the book that mom recorded for her so that when you flip each page it reads off the words to her in moms voice. It was very special. I also go some great gifts and my digital picture frame that I have been wanting for a few years. We had to wrap it all up and get home so that Santa could come and see us! (will upload more pics once I get them from mom)

Garner Family Christmas

Floyd Family Christmas

We got together with Dustins family and had a good traditional dinner. We all got to catch up and then open up some gifts. Hailey got some great toys and some special keepsakes as well. Her aunt Erin gave her a really pretty angel ornament that is hanging on the tree! She also got the original tickle me elmo from Grannie Anny. Mommy and daddy also got some great gifts and money to spend! We cant wait to get to Pigeon Forge and spend some of it at the outlet malls, well at least one of us ;o)

Floyd Christmas

"Santa Baby!!!"

As you can see we have been pretty busy lately and I am just now getting to post some of it. So here it is all at one time!! I finally got to have some relaxing time with the family and got some really cute pictures today. I got HB in front of the presents and Christmas tree and she had on her cute bloomers that GG gave her. I just kept snapping the camera to make sure I got all of the good ones... so there are about 20 or so!

Even though she has that chubby little belly and chunky thighs, she is still the cutest kid on the block!!

Santa Baby

Our new tradition

Since this Christmas is going to be the first of many fun Christmas' to come, we have decided to start a new tradition. This year we made a pretty Ginger bread house as a family. Hailey might be just a little too young to know exactly what is going on at this point, but she still had fun with us. Daddy did most of the work, but I helped to put the finishing touches on. Although we know she is not suppose to induldge in he sweets yet, we let her have a little taste of the icing. She LOVED it of course. At one point we didn't know that she had stuck her finger in it and we looked over and she is content as can be just sucking on her hand!!! hahahaha. It was very funny (dont worry, the icing had pretty much dried, so it was only a tiny bit!) Now we have a beautiful Ginger Bread House sitting on our counter for all to see :)

Gingerbread House

Martin Christmas

On to the next party.... we got together at Dustin's grandmothers for the Martin Family Christmas. We knew this would be a good one with two new babies in the family. We had ALOT of good food that Joann cooked and had a good sit down dinner in her new room out on the porch. The kids (two older boys) could hardly wait to open gifts, so we shifted into the living room to get everything going. Hailey was still down for her nap, so we let the boys go at it and everyone else enjoyed opening up gifts to see what they got. Hailey finally got up and we dug into ALL the presents that she had. I don't believe that she will have to worry about toys after this Christmas Season. She has already racked up and still has 3 parties to go! She has been a very happy girl the past two nights with all the toys that she has to play with :) We both can't wait until it is our turn to watch her open up our presents!!! Santa is own his way..

Martin Christmas

Christmas has already started!

We have already got our Christmas parties started. We started out with our good friends the Cucuzza's. We were all so excited and couldn't wait for friday to get there! We started out at their house and had a bunch of good appetizers. We had a bunch of laughs and filled our bellies just enough to be ready for sushi. We ate at a Japanese rest. here in Loganville and got a couple of different sushi rolls. One of our favorite things! We finally ended up at our house for presents and dessert. Of course we had to let Hailey go first and open up all her neat toys and pretty outfits. She got so many good things from her AJ! Jessica and I could hardly wait to see each other open up their gifts.. we had put so much time and thought into, that we both wanted the other to go first :) We were both so happy with what we got. Needless to say we were all so full from the rest of the food that we had to hold off on the dessert. We had a great time and had many laughs and made some good memories. It was a good way to kick of the Christmas parties.

Cucuzza Christmas

Rockettes

It is a little delayed, but I am finally getting up pics from the Rockettes. It was AWESOME!!! We had no idea at how great of detail there was going to be. There outfits were so pretty and they stayed in a perfect line. It was an eye popping show from the start to finish... and speaking of a finish, IT WAS SURPRISING AND GREAT! We couldn't believe it when the lights dimmed and then they started sharing the story of Christ. They had a live nativity scene complete with Camels. I COULD NOT believe it. They actually had two of them, and other animals as well. It was one of the most beautiful things that I have seen at a show. The colors were brilliant and the story was told in a unique way. They pulled down a huge screen that looked like a scroll and had a description of Christ scroll up it as the announcer read it off. I would go back again and again!

Rockettes

Chrismas Pics

Here are her individual pictures that we took. We got some great shots of her with presents and the tree. There are also a couple at Adam's tree farm and driving the fire truck! (Dozi even snuck in a Santa pic) Here's Mommy and Daddy's little gift from above!

Christmas Pics

Me and Santa

Well Santa decide to stop by the Floyd house early this year! We felt extra special because Santa made a house call for us... Dad's friend dresses up as Santa, and has the pretty suit that the ones at Macy's use. He came out for free to make pics with HB. She wasn't in her happiest mood, so she didnt smile a lot, but she did takes some really cute pics. I think if she would have gotten her full nap in she would have done better, but there are no complaints here! We also got some family pics and some individual ones of her. We had a great photographer (GG) and instead of paying a lot of money, we got some good laughs and great family time. Hope you enjoy!!

Christmas Pictures

This look right to you Mom?

It's finally my favorite time of year.. Christmas. You can't help but have a smile on your face when you walk into a decorated house, or turn on the radio and listen to the music, or see the presents under the tree that you know will be a big surprise! It is all just so exciting and fun. One of my favorite parts of Christmas is all the decor and lights. I must admit I go a little crazy with it, but it just makes the holidays that much better. I have realized just how hard it is to decorate when you have a 6 month old at home. So instead of trying to rush things, I sat her down and let her play as much as she wanted to with all the pretty lights. She loves to sit there and stare at them. I got some of my garland and wrapped it around her. She must be a mommys girl because she was all smiles. I got some great pics of her. I cant wait for Christmas this year because I know that it is going to be SO MUCH fun. One of dads friends is playing Santa this year and is so generously coming to our house for pics. I am so excited and think that it is going to be a fun experience. I cant wait to see how Hailey reacts.. I have a feeling it is going to be really funny :)

(i also added the pics of HB with the pickle on Thanksgiving!)

O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree!

We went and picked out our Christmas tree this week. We are going to be using moms old fake one as our main tree, but it just isnt Christmas without a live tree!! I love the smell and the spirit that it fills the house with. We got a cute little small one that fits perfect in our living room. Adam is selling trees this year, so we went up there to support him. The trees are very fresh and have that wonderful smell. It was really cold the night that we went, so we only got a few pics. Hailey is totally taken back by the trees. She can't take her eyes off of them, esp when they have lights on them! Unfort when I went to decorate the tree, I remembered that I threw out all my lights last year because they were starting to go out. So I have been a bit behind this year, but hope to have it all done by this weekend!