December 2017

We had an amazing December! We had so much fun getting ready for Christmas, celebrating the twins 4th birthday and we even got some major winter weather to ring in the holiday season.

We started the month with a visit from Santa and Mrs. Claus. The girls got all dressed up and brought their lists. They climbed right up on Santa's sleigh, and they were in total awe of all the magic. It was precious.

Later that same day Tim and I went to the SEC Championship to watch our DAWGS take on Auburn and seal their place in the Rose Bowl. Our friends, Ashley and Nicole, came down for the game, and we had so much fun catching up. It was just like old times. We are hoping for a possible repeat for the National Championship. Go DAWGS!

Nicole, Lina and me 12 years ago! 

We hosted Tim's staff Christmas party at Top Golf this month. We had a great time, but I was late so I didn't get a ton of pictures. We have done this the past couple of years and the staff seems to enjoy the night out!

Tim was nominated for the Gwinett Chamber of Commerce Heathcare Physician of the Year award. He didn't win, but he was honored to be nominated for the 3rd time! 

Ellasen had her annual well child check and she's as healthy as a horse. She is in the 70th percentile for height and the 30th for weight. And she's cute as a button. 

We had a major snowstorm this month! We saw more snow this month than Georgia has seen since 1993! It was amazing! The kids absolutely loved it. We spent so much time outside sledding down the hill on the golf course behind our house, making snow angels and snowmen. We were exceptionally unprepared for the wet snow, but we made due and the kids had a great time! 

warming up with hot cocoa

The twins' class watching the snow start to fall

Even Gunner loved the snow!

We had a great time celebrating Eden and Everly's birthday this month! They had a princess makeover party with a bunch of their friends. They were so cute!

Even Jennie our elf was excited about the girls' party

Eden wanted chocolate cake and Everly wanted strawberry! 

I got to go to the twins preschool on their birthday and deliver birthday treats and read a book to their class. Everly wanted cupcakes to share and Eden wanted M&M's to pass out. So cute! 

Our friends, the Lauderman's, came back for a visit for the first time since they moved to California 6 months ago. The kids were so excited to have see their friends, and I was excited to have Abby join us for our monthly girls' night! 

The girls all started dance lessons this month! They got a gift certificate from Aunt Di and Uncle David for lessons and they are really loving it! Eden and Everly are doing Itty Bitty Ballet and Ellasen is taking Hip Hop. 

The twins had their annual Christmas pageant at preschool. They had been marching around the house practicing the songs for a few weeks. It was so cute to see them perform in person!

We have been having so much holiday fun this month! We made a gingerbread house, a gumdrop tree, and so many yummy and well-decorated cookies! We even took a trip to the botanical gardens to see all the holiday lights. The girls were absolutely amazed! Our elf Jennie got in on all the fun too! 

Jennie brought the girls' their Christmas jammies!

Christmas morning was so much fun! Tim's mom, Carol was here and the girls loved having Grandma around. On Christmas Eve we put out reindeer food, laid out cookies and milk for Santa, and read "Twas the Night Before Christmas". We had great surprises on Christmas morning, and the rest of the day was spent relaxing, cooking a wonderful meal and playing with our new gifts!

salted caramel chocolate chip cheesecake

Tim and I went out with some friends on New Year's Eve. We had a lot of champagne, some great food, and so much fun! 

We are so excited to see what 2018 brings for our family! 2017 was an absolutely amazing year for all of us and we are sure 2018 is going to be even better! 

Eden and Everly are 4!

Eden and Everly are 4 years old! It is always hard to believe how fast they are growing up, but 4 seems like it really snuck up on us. The girls have had a year full of changes. We moved into a new house, they potty trained and they started going to school 3 mornings a week. They started dance lessons and they are learning a ton in their swimming lessons. We took some great trips this year that the girls loved! We took the most amazing trip to Disney World the year where the girls got to meet ALL the princesses and characters they love so much. We also took a trip to the beach and found out they love the sand and the ocean just like their mommy and big sister. Both girls still love Frozen, Minnie Mouse and Doc McStuffins. They have recently started liking another Disney show called "Vampirina". Both girls still love to color and draw, and they learned to draw people this year as well as write many of their numbers and letters.

Eden is still happy and sweet most of the time! She is pretty much in charge all the time. She likes to play with her sisters and Gunner. She loves to sing and dance, and she will spend a lot of time coloring or painting. She is still a picky eater with some sensory issues, but she is willing to try new things here and there. She is eating chicken and blueberries regularly now! She also loves strawberries, apples, bananas, granola bars, turkey sausage, pasta, mac and cheese, peanut butter, toast, muffins, donuts, yogurt and milk. Eden still does physical therapy once a week, and she is getting stronger and stronger all the time. She loves to ride this little wiggle bike she has and she is so good at it. She has developed a little stutter where her brain goes faster than her mouth, but we are told it is normal and common, and that she'll grow out of it soon. She has the best belly laugh ever and she thinks it is so funny when mommy acts silly. She loves to snuggle up and watch movies or read. We are so thankful for who she is and that she belongs to us! Eden weighs 31.5 lbs and is just over 40 tall.

Everly still has two personalities most of the time. She is so sweet and loving unless she is hungry or tired then her temper flares up. She loves to play with Ellasen and copies everything she does. She loves to look at books and pretends to read them aloud to anyone who will listen. She is a great eater and enjoys all kinds of food. She loves to try new foods and will often ask for a bite of whatever I am eating. Her favorite foods are chicken nuggets, turkey sausage, cheese, strawberries, lunch meat, steak, pork, peppers, cinnamon rolls, applesauce, pasta, cheeseburgers, pizza, salami, pineapple and rice. Everly is very strong and solid, but she likes to be good at things on the first try which leads her to give up easily sometimes. She is a very fast runner and enjoys racing her sisters. She also loves running up to the bus stop every afternoon to get Ellasen off the bus. She has a wonderful imagination and often makes up stories. When she laughs she loses all her breath so it's like this sort of silent laughter. She laughs the hardest when she is being tickled. Even when she is mad or starting to throw a fit I can usually get her to laugh if I tickle her! She loves to help me in the kitchen and hates being called a baby. She reminds me often to stop and just play or snuggle so I love that she helps me be a better mom. Everly weighs 36lbs and is just over 41 inches tall.

Here are their birthday interviews! Ellasen helped them this year!

These two make life better in every way! We can't believe they are 4 years old today. Seeing life through their eyes is so much fun, and as they get older and easier we get to enjoy more and more experiences as a family.  We look forward to everything the next year brings these sweet girls!

Every picture Eden was making a crazy face...makes me laugh so hard!