Our Little Valentines!

Adelyn

Sophie

My Valentine Has 4 Valentines!

I thought I had the best husband in the ENTIRE world before this Valentine's Day but now I KNOW I do! Not only did he do all sorts of things for me during the week leading up to the 14th but he also made his other three valentines feel loved. He gave his girls a special valentine everyday for five days letting them know how much he loved them. I am so glad I am not his only Valentine!

"Suzie" Our Elf on a Shelf

So Santa delivered an Elf on the Shelf to our house a few days ago and the girls are just loving the magic she possesses. Suzie, named by Addie, sits on a shelf in our house every day to watch the girls. At night when they are sleeping she will fly to the North Pole to tell Santa if the Jackson girls have been naughty or nice. When she returns she finds a new place to sit. Every morning the girls wake up and go running around the house to find Suzie's new location. They may talk to her but Suzie cannot talk back and they absolutely CANNOT touch her, if they do her magic will be lost. Mommy and Daddy also love the magic of Suzie because all we have to do is say "Suzie is watching" and the girls jump up and do as they were told. Just another fun way to enjoy the magic of Christmas through the eyes of little ones.

Santa

This year we visited Santa with NO TEARS!!! The big girls were anxious to see him and Sophie well she just wanted to be put down. McKenna asked for a unicorn pillow pet and a Barbie laptop. Addie asked for a doggie pillow pet and cupcakes. Sophie was just happy to get her first lollipop. I have to say that this is the best Santa we have seen yet! When we were waiting in the line the girls were sort of jumping and dancing with joy so he got out of his chair and danced with them. He just seemed to have all the time in the world to make them feel special.

Happy Halloween

We started our Halloween off with pumpkin carving. This is new in this household because we didn't think the girls were old enough and frankly I didn't want to deal with the mess. I was also excited about cooking and eating the pumpkin seeds just like we always did growing up so this was the year to do it. Anyway when we told McKenna we were going to carve pumpkins she asked if we can make it a tradition (after we got finished explaining what a tradition was)...so it looks like we will be doing this every year.

So then it was time to get dressed. Adelyn wanted to be Dora, McKenna wanted to be Dorothy and we have called Sophie our Pumpkin Pie since she was born so close to Halloween and Thanksgiving that she decided to be a pumpkin. Oh and don't mind the cucumber...she wouldn't let go of it and it made her happy so we let her have it...she kept her hat on because of it and it matched her costume anyway.

Our friends and neighbors invited us to their church to go trick or treating. It was really nice because we didn't have to wait for it to get dark and we just went from car to car in like 30 minutes. It would have taken us two hours walking door to door in our neighborhood to get the same amount of candy.

We found a real TOTO!

Just me and my Pumpkin Pie!