Merry Christmas from the Lide Family

Merry Christmas

Santa Clause came and left Olivia a few toys for Christmas this year!

She is starting to love sitting in her anywhere chair. This is by far, one of my favorite gifts that Ho Ho brought her.

Merry Christmas!

Christmas morning, we had both of our parents come over for a big Christmas breakfast. They got to spend a little time with Olivia and watch her play with a few of her toys. She even attempted to ride her new power wheels in the den. I think she will get the hang of this when it gets a little bit warmer outside. It was so nice to start our Christmas mornings off with both sets of parents! :) Those are the times that I realize how truly blessed we are with family.

After breakfast, showers, and getting ready, we headed to my parents house so that we could open presents with them. Olivia got a new table and chairs and a tea party set to go with it. She enjoyed having everyone sit around the table with her and drink tea and eat desserts! :)

There is nothing like a tea party with Daddy!

I love love love this picture!

One happy girl!

We then headed to my Aunt's house for our big family get together. We had a huge lunch, took a family picture (about 28 of us) in the snow, and then wrapped the day up with a little dirty santa game. Livi enjoyed getting to open her presents and when she was done, she kept signing 'more' and saying 'mo'. She was so excited to see lots of elmo presents and purses!!

My cousin Stephanie and I. I am 24 weeks and she is 35. Not much longer for her. :)

After this, we headed to the Millington's house to open presents with them. Olivia's cousin Kaley helped her open a few of her gifts. :)

Elmo DVD!!!!

She was pretty tired by the time we got to the Millingtons, so a big bowl full of mix helped us get through some of the present opening.

Our first ever snow on Christmas morning. The snow really made for such a beautiful Christmas and really helped me to remember and reflect on the true meaning of Christmas. Praise our Lord Jesus Christ for coming to this earth to save us. Happy Birthday Jesus!! One of my favorite Christmas songs is 'Winter Snow' and it was soo fitting for yesterday. Merry Christmas from our family to yours!

Not a Friend of Ho Ho's

This past Thursday we decided to finally go and get Olivia's picture taken with Ho Ho. We had just come from the pediatrics office and discovered that she had her very first ear infection so we knew that she probably wouldn't be in the best mood. Poor little girl! Here is her reaction to Santa.....

I don't think so!!!!

If no one is coming to get me, then I am going to get down myself!!

Other than Santa, she surprisingly had a good time. She loved looking at all the fish and looking around the store and we all had a great lunch at their too cute little pioneer cafe. All in all, we got a classic santa picture and had a fun little family outing!

A Day at the Park in December

Last week it was actually warm enough for us to go to the park! It was in the low 60's so we didn't even have to bundle up all that much! It was a beautiful day and I think that Olivia just enjoyed being able to get out of the house. The first thing she saw was the swing and went running to it. It was her long lost friend :)

Snack Time :)

Baby Sophie

My cousin is having a little girl in a few short weeks and so we had a baby shower for her here in Birmingham about a month ago ( I am very late in posting this!!) We had such a great time just getting to see each other and just spend some time with family!! Can't wait to meet sweet Sophie!

Steph is about 30 weeks and I am about 20 weeks!

Sisters :)

My dad rubbing in the fact that Auburn won the Iron bowl!!

Cousins

Adorable hat that was my cousin knitted

Paw paw relaxing in the reclining couch! Sooo comfortable!!

Happy Birthday to Aunt Heather!

On Saturday we celebrated Aunt Heather's birthday!! I wasn't able to be there due to the stomach bug :( but I was glad that JR and Livi were able to go and celebrate with her. Happy big 26 Heather!! We love you!!

Uh Oh....somebody spotted the cake!

Just one bite...please!

Yummy!!!!

One happy girl

After a long day of cake and celebrating she needed some down time with her Big John

Merry Christmas!

These past few weeks have been very busy for us with all of the christmast festivities, but when you throw the stomach bug into it as well, it makes for an even more interesting past week. Needless to say, we have not gotten out of the house much lately so I haven't had too many pictures to take or things to blog about. But before the bug took out Olivia and I, here are a few shots of some Christmas cheer :)

This is the Millington's annual Christmas cookie decorating get together. Yay for cookies!!!

Yummmmm!

Olivia is nowhere to be seen in the last picture because after devouring 2 cookies topped with icing, she is now sorting through and organizing all of the sprinkles in the box behind Miah. :)

On a side note.... we were so glad that JR, Miah, and Payt sat down to decorate a few. We were all very impressed in Payts decorating ability :) (he really is good!!!) and I was not shocked to see that ALL of JR and Miah's cookies were orange and blue with Cam Newtons number written all over them :) Gotta love Auburn!

One of the attempts at getting a picture of all of us for their Christmas card. Livi really was in a good mood, I just think she was little confused :)

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from the Millington Family

In Christ,

JR, Amy, Olivia Love, and Baby Anna Kaytlin

Good Little Patients

These two little guys had so much fun at the dentist office last week! They played in the chairs, suctioned their mouths (which both of them thought was hilarious!!!), and ran up and down the hallways, having an absolute blast. I hope that these two will be good little friends one day and I hope that both of their new little sisters will be too :)