Christmas (Part 2!)

OK, so here are pictures from the rest of our holiday celebrations! We went to my grandma's house on Christmas Eve and had yummy food and exchanged presents as usual. On Christmas we ate breakfast at Todd's parents house with the whole fam and did the present thing there as well. Todd made some YUMMY homemade cinnamon rolls with chocolate chunks inside. They are sooooo good! After playing games and just hanging out, we headed up to my parents house for more presents and Christmas dinner. Our traditional dinner (for the last few years anyway) of Cafe Rio/Costa Vida foods was delicious! After more games and just relaxing, we headed home. The day after Christmas we had a breakfast with Todd's whole extended family (cousins, aunts, etc.) and had the usual breakfast casserole and good times chatting. What a fun time of year!

Izzie getting super excited to open presents on Christmas Eve. :)

Iz loved her Pooh Bear from our cousin Zack. Thanks Zack!!!

A quick shot of all of us before going home to wait for Santa to come!

Me and Todd after presents on Christmas morning. (We have this same picture every year!)

Izzie with all of her presents from us and Santa! :)

Izzie opening presents with the Barlows.

What a tired girl! But SUPER sweet nonetheless. :)

Izzie with her new baby doll from her Grandma and Grandpa Mikesell . . .

. . . and her new board books that are all Disney!

Wow! What a great Christmas we had. We were super spoiled. We did also want to mention that we are so thankful for being able to celebrate Christ's birth each year. We know that is what the season is all about. Hopefully we're able to teach Izzie all about baby Jesus next year. We're excited to see what she does. With that said, Happy New Year and be sure to be safe!

Merry Christmas! (Part 1)

So, I decided to just post a bunch of pics for everyone to see! I'm doing some pre-Christmas just because we've taken some cute pictures of Izzie lately. I guess Part 2 will include all our holiday stuff! Hope everyone has a great Christmas!

Izzie has lots of smiles for us these days!

Checking out the Christmas tree . . .

I'm flying!!!!

Our 2nd tree with new ornaments this year.

Some close-ups so you can see the fun colors!

Our sweetie pie

Thanks for the cute outfit grandma!!!

Izzie is getting sooooo BIG!

Nighty night!

My New Recipe Blog!

OK, so this has been something I've WANTED to do for a long time now, and it's finally UP and running. Check out my new blog www.apieceofcakeforme.blogspot.com! There are RECIPES posted weekly, sometimes more often, from my cookbooks and some I just LOVE. I think it's turned out pretty CUTE and I hope to have a lot of followers soon. Also, if you need to ORDER any of my cookbooks, you can do it there as well!

Let me know what you all think! Oh, and tell all your friends! :)

Happy 3 Months Big Girl!

Today Izzie Brooke is 3 months old! She is getting so big and smiles all the time. The newest discovery she has made is giggling, and the sound is HEAVENLY! We do all we can to try and make her laugh, but it's strange things that set her off. For example, the other night we were playing Bunco with my parents and she giggled when we rolled the dice. Since then we've tried dice and it hasn't worked! Who knew what made is so funny before. :)

Well, of course we didn't have our video camera ready when all of a sudden she started giggling as Todd was throwing her toy keys in the air, but we rushed and grabbed it and caught the tail end of some of her giggles, so ENJOY!

Also, here are some cute pictures from a "photo shoot" we did one day. I loved this little dress and hat and wanted to document them since she hasn't been able to wear it anywhere. (She's currently inactive and doesn't go to church—curse all the bad germs!) There's a few other cute pictures just for fun as well.

We love you our little baby boo!

Is it a Mullet?

My sister emailed this picture to us the other day and we laughed and laughed because, apparently, Todd has a pretty awesome mullet! Check it out:

Thanks to the girl who was sitting directly behind Todd. We wouldn't have been able to enjoy this illusion without you!

2 months

Izzie turned 2 months old on Monday last week, so today we headed to the doctor for her little 2-month check up. The result—GOOD! She's growing like a WEED and everything is looking great. We LIVE for her cute little smiles and coos, so it made us really SAD when she had to get those "nasty" shots. Poor little sweetheart! She didn't cry for too long though, and we hope she'll FORGIVE us soon. As for her numbers, she weighed 12 pounds and was 23.75 inches. She was 72nd percentile for weight, and 88th percentile for height! Her parents are both SOOO tall, we figured that was about right. :)

Happy Halloween!

Prettiest flower ever!

Where's Izzie? :)

Just a cute close up.

Get me out of this costume!!!

Don't you just want to pinch my cheeks?

One more just for fun because we LOVE our little flower!

The Many Faces of Izzie

We love all the cute faces Izzie makes all of the time. In fact, they totally crack us up. We think she is so funny! I think we might be the first parents to feel this way about their child, but just try to imagine. :)

With that said, we decided to try and catch some of her "faces" with pictures. A lot of these don't do her justice, but we still think they're pretty darn cute!

Getting ready to cry face

Super sad crying face

Sweet smiley face

Leave me alone I'm pooping face

I'm done eating but want more face

Polite but will you get this off me face

I'm cute and I found my tongue face

I'm SUPER sweet face

Sweet AND sleepy face

I love my mobile face

Isn't she so cute, sweet, funny, cute, sweet, cute, adorable, and did I say cute? :)