December 2012

 My beautiful little baby.

 I attempted to make the "gingerbread" houses out of graham crackers this year.  The recipe for the frosting was great.  It's just that cutting the graham crackers was really hard and the house ended up looking a little crooked.  Oh well the girls had fun anyways.

 

 Christmas Dresses

We were so blessed to have my parents come and spend Christmas with us.

First thing on the agenda when they landed Christmas Eve was make homemade tamales.

My Mom and I always somehow forget how much work goes into it.  We always say we aren't going to make them again and then somehow we get to that point again where we're cranking them out again.  Christmas just isn't the same with out them.

 My dear friend Emily hauled this dollhouse from CA back here to TX for me because she knew we didn't have on and her mom was getting rid of it.  So "Santa" scored some furniture on eBay, did a little wallpapering and a little sewing to turn it into a Barbie house.

 Sadly Simone was pretty sick the whole time my parents were here.  So she was pretty fussy.  One thing that did calm her down was walking outside so my Dad took her for walks daily.

 

 We celebrated New Year's at about 9pm cause this Mommy needs her beauty sleep.  Between teething and sickness Simone was not sleeping well at this point. 

 We bought a whole bunch of fun stuff and then took it all next door and made a mess on their porch with it.  Ha ha ha.

 We helped clean up.