Ugly Christmas Sweater Party

Ty and I slipped away for an evening this past week for some time with friends. Nothing shows the Christmas spirit like some truly ugly Christmas sweaters!

The prize winners!

We look like we took this picture in 1982!

If you are ever thinking of having a get together this time of year, I highly recommend this theme it was a lot of fun! Kinda scary that this look was fashionable at one point in time!
Cheers!

Christmas Day

What an amazing experience it was for us celebrating our first Christmas with Lane! Although she doesn't really understand much at this age, she really enjoyed playing with all of her packages and bows on the gifts from Santa. Ty and I had a blast watching her in all the excitement! We were blessed with a few inches of snow on Christmas Eve which made the day even more cozy. We hope you all had a very Merry Christmas!

White Christmas!

Fun with bows!

What's that daddy?

I could celebrate Christmas everyday!

Pictures with Santa

This past weekend we took Lane to see Santa at Northpark Mall in Dallas. We were anxious to see how she would react to him and to our surprise she just loved him! Santa was so wonderful, he totally looked like the real thing and even promised her a pony! The two of them really hit it off, we wonder if it's because they had matching cheeks ;)?!? This will forever be a precious memory, Merry Christmas!

Play Date

Last week Lane had a play date with a few of her buds Brayden and Cash. It was so fun watching them play together and it gave us mommies a chance to catch up! I got a few cute pics of the 3 of them, they were just fascinated with Lane's bow and she got a kick out of them playing with it! Thanks Samantha for having us over, we need to do it again soon!

Beware Sally, she has another Christmas outfit on ;)

When the cats away...

So this is what I found when I turned my head for 3 minutes to get some veggies ready for dinner. There were 15 toys around but Lane decided to get into her diaper caddy and play with more fun things like her Desitin and wipes. She's such a goofball!

Finally showing some interest

Missy has been my sweet kitty for almost 14 years now! She is such a love (to us at least:)! We were a bit curious to see how she would react when we brought Lane home from the hospital. Turned out she really had no interest in the her at all, she pretty much kept her distance especially when Lane would cry. She would look at us every now and then like we were crazy for bringing something so loud into out quiet little home.

It's been fun watching her have more interest in Lane and vice versa. Lane's face lights up when Missy comes into the room. She likes to touch her and just thinks it's so silly. Anyway, we were confined to the back of the house for a few days while some painters were here and Missy decided to join Lane and I for some play time. I just love my girls so much!

Snow Day

About 2 weeks ago we woke up to some snow on the ground here in Abilene. I felt like a little kid again and had to wake Ty up so he could see. We quickly found the warmest attire we could for Lane and bundled her up for some quick pictures. She wasn't quite sure what to think of it but had a fun time! I am sure we looked crazy at 6:30 am out in the freezing cold with our little baby but we are glad we enjoyed it because it melted quickly! I just loved snowy days when I was a kid and hope Lane gets to enjoy more of them too!

By the way, I also thought it was crazy that we had snow before my mom this year and she is way up in New Jersey! Thats Texas weather for ya!

Halloween and Thanksgiving

We have had so much fun this year with Lane celebrating all of her first holidays! She went to her first Halloween party dressed as a cute little Lady Bug. We decided on that since she has picked up the nicknames Buggy, and Laney Bug over the past few months. She had fun playing with the pumpkins and seeing all of her friends in their fun costumes.

Thanksgiving was also great this year, she loved watching the Macy's Day parade with her Daddy that morning. Later we enjoyed a very relaxing afternoon with family and ate way too much food! Lane helped me cook the turkey this year and even tested out some of her Grandma's sweet potatoes which were a hit! She was so excited after all the festivities and had fun wearing nothing but her turkey bib from Meema, she crack's us up! We hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving with your families, we are so thankful for all of our blessings!

Laney Bug

Watching the Macy's Day Parade

Silly little Turkey!

Thanksmas 2009

Having fun with Mason!

Hangin out by the pool

Cousins!

The Girls

Watching the sunset with my Uncle Corey

Our family has been celebration a tradition we call Thanksmas for the past 5 years. It has truly become one of our favorite holidays! Thanksmas happens sometime between the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays, hence the name. Over the years we have developed new traditions for the weekend like the famous Rib Cook-off and designing our very own tree made of lights for the kids. We have spent the holiday together in several different locations but have now settled to meet in Ft. Myers Florida each year to celebrate. It is really nice to relax in the sun for a weekend after the cooler weather hits at home.

This year was really fun for us especially since it was Lane's first Thanksmas. She had a blast visiting and playing with her cousins, and was such a great traveler! We cherish this time we get to spend together as the distance in our daily lives keeps us apart most of the year. We just know Lane will enjoy the holiday as much as we do over the years and hope it will keep her close with her precious cousins! Cheers!

Welcome to our Nest!

So we finally decided to join the blogging world! We have had a lot of fun keeping up with friends, family, and their kiddos through their blogs over the years. I guess you could say it's about time we joined in!

Ty and I moved to Abilene a little over a year ago and soon found out we were expecting our first baby. We were absolutely thrilled! Jordan "Lane" Adams was born on May 14th 2009, it was truly one of the happiest days of our lives! We have had so much fun the past six months watching our baby girl grow and thought this would be a good way for our family and friends to share that as well.

As any new parents probably do, we have a million pictures of our sweet baby girl since she was born. To get you up to date we thought we would share a few of our favorites.

Lane's Birthday

1 Week Old

2 Months

3 Months

4 Months

It's hard to believe she has grown so much in such a short time! We look forward to sharing more with all of you soon!