Note to Self

Before getting up at 5:30 am, getting fully dressed, stretching, and getting ready to walk out the door, be sure to look out a window from your bed and make sure it is not torrentially raining! Therefore, you can roll over and go back to sleep instead of being wide awake!

The Adorable Outfit....

my Mom made!
Most of my friends are really crafty and sew and make adorable outfits for their kids. I am totally not that Mommy! However, my own mother is that Mommy/Grandmother. Growing up she made me some great clothes and now makes custom outfits for my princess. I am so blessed to only have to show her a picture of something that I like and can't find or afford and have it made for Callie. I will have to showcase more of her amazing work but I will start with this adorable outfit she made for CG to wear at Disney! I love it and we got stopped numerous times to be told how cute it was.

Story time with Belle

While at the magic kingdom, we went to the story time with Belle. The kids loved it and HJ got invited onto the stage to act of the part of Papa. He thought that was really cool and took it very seriously! CG was very jealous that she did not get to go onstage. She got over it once she got to meet Belle and get her autograph!

Disney Princesses

As most of you know, CG is obsessed with the Disney Princesses. She runs around the house in her princess dresses and wants to talk about them all of the time. To celebrate CG's love of all things princess. My amazing Mom scheduled us to eat breakfast inside Cinderella's castle with the princesses. As you can imagine, this was the highlight of CG's Disney trip! We had a blast watching her take it all in.
To celebrate, KJ allowed CG to pick out any princess dress from the Disney shop to wear to the breakfast. This is HIGHLY unlike my cheap husband as the dresses were $65 plus tax!!!! CG was dazzled by all the beautiful dresses she could pick from and surprised us all by picking a Belle (Beauty and the Beast) dress, instead of her usual favorite Aurora (Sleeping Beauty). She quickly put it on and was the belle of the breakfast!
Disney sure knows how to put on a good show. Everyone we encountered at the breakfast was in character, from the hostess to the waiter and of course the princesses. The premise was that we were all invited to a royal banquet hosted by Cinderella who you met in the foyer and posed for pictures with. Once you were greeted by your hostess, your were escorted by the butler to your royal table. There the waiter treated you like royalty and talked with a wonderful British accent and had a very dry sense of humor. The food was amazing!!!! While you eat, the princesses mingled with all the guests, posed for pictures, and signed autograph books! This breakfast was totally worth the high price tag (even my Mom who paid thought so)! We will definitely do it again when we go back and encourage anyone going to book it early as it fills up almost 6 months in advance! Thank you Mom for a royal time!

Pictures from the Beach

We are so happy that we got to spend most of a week at one of our favorite places on earth: Isle of Palms, SC. We love to go there and usually go once or twice a year. So when some great friends asked if we would like to go with them and stay at their families beach house we jumped at the chance. We loved lazing around with nowhere to be or do with great friends. The kids had a blast playing on the beach even though it was quite chilly. What you can't see in the pictures is that all the adults were fully clothed and the women had on sweatshirts while the children insisted on wearing swim suits. They also loved swimming in the heated pool. It was a great week full of fun, friendship, food, play, and rest!

3 Years Ago Today

Three years ago today I was admitted into the hospital at 5:00 am in the morning to have a baby! It was a planned cesarian, as HJ had been breach and was a cesarian also. My doctor did not want to take any chances so she scheduled me for another cesarian for my baby girl. The surgery started out like HJ's did and I was not worried. However, what I was not aware of is that the epidural did not take thru all the layers of skin. Needless to say, once the surgery started I was not a happy camper. There was a lot of screaming and crying on my part which was not the way I wanted CG welcomed into the world. Luckily, after she arrived, they quickly doped me up so I was not feeling anything or very much aware of anything else going on.
After all the trauma, I quickly fell in love with my baby girl and marveled at how big she was (8lbs, 13 oz)! I can't believe she is three years old and is now super tiny. She has been a constant source of joy to KJ and I. She now thinks she is an princess and constantly cracks KJ and I up with her questions, comments, and thoughts!
Happy 3rd Birthday Princess C!

Where in the World....

have we been? We have had so so so much fun these past two weeks. We spent the first week at the beach with some wonderfully sweet friends. We had a fun, relaxing time and the kids had a blast. We came home and a day later we left for Walt Disney World for the best, most fun time with my Mom!!!! We just came home today. I will post more about both trips soon but did want to get something out there to let all know we are really fine and have been having a lot of fun! Thanks to everyone who has been so concerned about my absence!