Santa is here

Santa is here!

The Christmas Tree at Nina's house.

It looks B-E-A-U-tiful even without the twinkle lights on.

 I loved that I got to order matching brother/sister outfits this year. I know I'm such a nerd when it comes to Holiday attire, but I don't care. I would spend just as much at the store trying to coordinate outfits. I loved loved loved her dress. I hope it still fits this fall. Oh I just got excited about fall. Especially since right now outside in August its 55 degrees and feels terrific.

 Christmas Family Photo. This probably took me 2 meltdowns and 4 hours to complete. But we completed it, and looked happy. Score!!

Christmas at Mimi and Papaws house.

 Mimi and Sissy.

 The traditional picture in front of the tree.

 This was the best one if that tells you anything. Haha

 Christmas at Grandma and Grandpa Crowes house.

 Santa actually stopped by to make sure Charlee and Henry were being good and going to go to bed so he could come back later that night.  He told Charlee that he would be back to leave her some presents.

Charlee was super quiet and barely answered his questions... She was staring hard at him, like she knew him from somewhere.

Showing him that she made cookies and was going to leave reindeer food in the driveway.

Walking Santa out.

Super excited that the "real" Santa came to visit her.

As usual Christmas at the Crowes is insane!!!

Charlee is one spoiled little lady.

I got morning cuddles with my man. And did I mention I'm still on maternity leave? Oh, it was so wonderful to have the holidays off.  NO working and speeding home to see what Santa brought while the house waits for me, then staying up and pulling 48 hrs. like its no big deal.  I know Gavin,  I'll only get sympathy from my fellow night shifters... Sad times for mommas.

This is his life.

Merry Christmas you handsome boy.

Can we go play in the snow? She didn't care if snow got in between where her gloves and jacket were or if her toes were freezing because her boot may or may not have come off during a movie shoot in the snow. This girl loved it.

Best things ever. Notice Mannys face...

Oh cant forget the IPad. This is his life too.

I think he was on to me snapping pictures of him on his phone/Ipad. Muahahahahaha (Dr. Evil voice)

And to wrap up the Holidays we went to Disney On Ice for the second time. It was perfect. Daddy got us good tickets this year for Minnie, Mickey, Cars, and Tink.  She didn't speak the whole time.

As cute as this picture is, I cant help but remember the parking garage incident. We get to our car that is parked in a lot where you pay at the gate when you leave.  We get down to the gate, the car in front of us gets out and runs into the mini office/stairwell where there is an ATM to pay for your parking with a credit card.  So I get out to pay for ours too because we never have cash... EVER... so I get in to the stairwell and the guy said the machine is out of order.  Um, no way, we need to get out of the garage, is there someone we can call? Well, no there was a paper note that said to call a 1800 # taped to the machine if we needed assistance... we did. We call, no answer. Perfect. I'm hesitant to go back out to the car for fear Gavin is going to loose it.  I hate it when he does this because I instantly want to start laughing at how ridiculous he can get, which he loves, and I spend a lot of time trying to hold back chuckles.  So the man in the car at the gate gets out and they end up finding cash to pay and the arm gate goes up to now leave us blocking the line of cars waiting to get out.  Gavin is panicking and gets out of the car.  At this point several other non-cash carriers are finding out their doom as well.  After several minutes of debate, Gavin tells me to get in the drivers seat and drive the car, So I'm looking at him like "why do I have to drive" and he and another guy are manually lifting up the "arm" gate. I was in shock and I tried to tell them we cant do this... and they both (Gavin and the stranger helping lift) looked at me like lady get in the car and drive. (apparently those arms are really heavy) So against everything in me, I did it and felt horrible.  I instantly wanted him to drive if we were going to be fleeing from the law.  He thought I was ridiculous and said he would gladly pay if someone contacted him. So if your reading this and own that garage where several individuals skipped out because your machine was broken... I'm sorry, we will send you a check.

It felt so wrong.... we just left Disney on Ice!!!!

Snowflakes

Charlee got invited to a Christmas Party for Kids at the Mongan house.  Mommy was Christmas shopping with Nina and Keekah and Manny so Daddy had a special Daddy/Daughter day with Miss Buckets. They had lots of fun making ornaments and reindeer food.  I was impressed with Daddy's skills. He can definitely do this more often...

 

Harper girl was there too.

Reindeer food bar. 

Daddy did so good taking pictures for me. Thanks Gavin, you pulled through. He was the only daddy there with his baby... (brownie points)

Oh and Santa was there... no wait, that's Gaeton.

Henry's 3 Month pictures were taken. I recall that it was abnormally warm this day so we got to take a few outside. Freaky weather I tell you. We had a lot of weird weather/tornado's/floods this season and if we talked about it with Gavin he would just respond with ... Yep, the world is ending. End of conversation.

We think this should have been sent to Ellen:
Henry is clearly scared.

this is the last of his dark hair.

 

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Lucy did some crazy things this year.

Love this hat I ordered from Etsy on sister.

We met Brett, Gabbie, Gaston, and Jenny at Metropolis to see SANTA.

Henry and Charlee are going to sit on his lap and tell him what they want for Christmas this year.  Charlee wants lots of toys especially Umizoomi Remote control car. I hope she gets it!!

After the visit with Santa we all went to Teddy's burger joint to watch IU vs. Butler. Im trying to forget how that overtime ended. :(

They had great entertainment. One of the managers said he would flip the mic on if we wanted. Haha... she is pretty shy so...

Manny met us too!

After the game we went to visit Great Grandma Kay in the hospital. She was happy to see us.

This was our Christmas card this year:

This special night Charlee was invited to go look at Christmas lights with hot chocolate.  She was presented with a golden ticket and Uncle Gaston and Aunt Jenny loaded kids up to drive around and look at all the lights.

Breastfeeding in style thanks to my stylist Charlee.

We had a snow day.  It was freezing, but Charlee loved it of course.

Poppy always comes to visit with a surprise. Chocolate chip cookie anyone?

Dr Charlee McStuffins fixed baby right up.

She loves getting her hair cut now.

Kay came to visit Henry and brought gifts, he repaid her with his cuddles. Always a pleasure visiting with Kay. Come back any time.

Hey dad, get me a Michigan Cheer leading outfit and ill cheer for your team this year. Cheer leading outfit = huge hit.

Candy stripes anyone. How cute is he. He loves his Hoosiers.

Forts with Keekah.

Thank you Sky Zone for helping burn off some energy. The kids loved it. Toddler time is a must, once the big kids get in there... Yikes, flying babies.

I love that my Charlee bear needs a photo with her "friends" every time we go into Old Navy.  I play along and we end up with like 20 pics.  She pretty much insists now... even one with Fido. I'm sure I have like 5 different photo sessions that I should put together.  Please tell me we aren't the only crazies out there. 

 

Happy Monday Everyone... oh wait, its Tuesday. I only got 2 hrs of sleep after working last night so I'm well on my way to making up new words and forgetting how to spell "the". Good luck family, I should be a ball of fun.  Night shift problems. Haha, I need to #hashtag that. I love to make fun of #hashtags... it gives me pure joy. So in honor... #bewarefacebookfriendsyouhavebeenwarned