Merry Christmas Everybody

Christmas Eve with new Christmas jammies. Grey does NOT like holding still for Daddy to take a hundred pictures.

Christmas Morning-Lucy could not BELIEVE all of the presents under the tree. Grey got into the action pretty quickly.

They both got some great gifts-thank you Santa! Lucy's favorite was her Polly Pocket ship and Grey didn't really have a fav, but really did enjoy the wrapping paper. Mommy and Daddy did pretty good too. Lucy got an iPod nano (that was totally Adam) and Grey got the rocking giraffe along with boring old clothes (according to Lucy but they needed them and I am all for making it part of their gifts cause they really do have enough toys already)!

Adam and I didn't go all out on each other this year. We are both saving up for new bikes-yes we need new bikes! But I got some bike gear-jacket, shorts, gloves, socks along with The Cyclist's Training Bible. Thank you Adam. And I gave Adam a bunch of cd's. Yes cd's. Much easier to do everything we want we in the good old fashioned cd form. We actually gave each other the new Kanye West cd. What can we say great minds think alike! He also got some clothes for school-which he asked for-and a really cool (if I do say so myself) sigg bottle. Adam was on call the whole holiday but got home for Christmas Eve dinner, presents, cookie making, and Polar Express watching. And was able to enjoy all of Christmas day before he had to go back in Christmas night. We felt that that was the best and luckiest present of all!

Naked Candy Bar

Is that a saying that only the Barlow (my maiden name) uses? Anyways, Grey is getting really big into running around naked after his baths. And yes there is a problem with that. One day I got him out but didn't put a diaper on immediately. He played in the cabinets under the sink in Lucy's bathroom. I have left them empty so they can play there. They LOVE it. Well 3 minutes later pick him up and dress him. Probably 6 hours later he goes back to his favorite spot to play under the sink and pulls out a bunch of poo. Yep he had pooped in the cabinet and I had no clue. Yes the bathroom stunk but I just thought it was a previous poopie diaper that I had taken out but the bathroom had just not aired out very well. No more naked candy bars in my house:)

Sunshine Performances

Valley View Mall Performance-yes my name is Valerie and I have a daughter that sings in the mall.

Sunshine at Six Flags!!!! If you look closely you can tell that Lucy is actually singing into the microphone. I was so proud I seriously cried every time she did it. And she was on key!

Lucy got to meet Frosty and Rudolph. She informed us that they were not real because they had zippers on their backs. Lucy is getting too old too fast.

Lucy got to ride lots of rides with her friend from church Malia. She is so not afraid of amusement park rides

Lucy's 6th Bday

I know its a little late but here are a few pics from her Fancy Nancy Tea Party/Bday Party!







I have a wonderful friend who is a makeup artist that did the amazing face painting. The girls played musical teapot and tea party bingo. They got to decorate their own cupcakes which is a fun idea if there is only a small group of girls-not 15. And of course a pink butterfly pinata to finish it all off. It was exhausting but so much fun. Lucy invited all of the girls in her kindergarten class and some church friends too.



This is the next morning, Lucy wanted tea party cuisine for breakfast and in our house your bday isn't just one day but the whole weekend. So turkey and cheese sandwich with no crusts cut into triangles, grapes, chips, and apple juice for breakfast!!! She loved this keyboard which has magically disappeared-not sure what has happened to it;)

This was Lucy's last 6th birthday present from Adam's parents. She got an American Girl Doll who she named LuLu. They have matching jammies which Lucy LOVES. The Bitty Baby came with different outfits, a blanket, and toys. Perfect way to end a perfect birthday.

Here It Is.....

So I decided to post my Christmas card because I think it is so cute-we were at the mall after one of Lucy's Sunshine Generation performances and decided to do a bunch of photo booth pics. And it is okay that I misspelled Christmas. I made a mistake I can live with it and move past it (well sort of). And lastly because everyone either already knows or has seen it so why not?

Major Disclaimer

The guilt set in and I decided to send Christmas cards (notice I spelled Christmas correctly?). I promise I spell checked and even had Adam check to make sure it was right. There are only 7 words on the entire card-we couldn't mess that up right? Well today I mailed 30 of them, got home, my friend came over, and I showed them to her. She thought they were so cute but Christmas is misspelled-seriously ahhhhhhhhh. I mean it would have been nice if she had told me that before I sent most of them out. So if you didn't make it in the first batch, don't count on one. Trying to decide if I should post the card-I was when I LOVED it, now it is just an embarrassment. So how this Christmas season has been going!

Santa's Lap

As I mentioned below, it wasn't until the other day talking to my friend Christina that I realized that I really was falling behind on the whole perfect mom at Christmas time. She was talking about taking her kids to sit on Santa's lap, which had not even cross my mind this year. But don't worry I took care of it. As you all can see it is your typical bad pic of kids sitting on Santa's lap. I mean do they try to take the worst pic possible? Do they wait so long to just take it to make sure both kids are not looking their best? Cost of bad Santa picture: $20, memory: priceless.

Help

Need your input-all of you. We (yes I had asked Adam) had decided to give Lucy a trip to Disneyland for Christmas. But Adam is changing his mind, and I have been so sick since I got back from UT that the thought of another trip sounds overwhelming (BUT we wouldn't go until the beginning of February). So what do I do? Adam wouldn't go but my parents and sister would meet me in CA for 4 days of Disney fun. She has never gone and still believes that the princesses are real people. But Adam isn't so excited about it anymore. So tell me what to do-oh and I have no other ideas for her big present so I would need some suggestions.

And no I am not really on top of things this year-still not sure if I am going to get my act together enough to get our cards out. Yes I am being lazy and sick and not sure if that will change:) Just got done talking to a friend-I haven't even thought of visiting Santa-what a looser mom. BUT-so I don't look so bad-I have decorated so stop judging.