Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

I love my Silhouette! It cut out all this cute stuff...all I had to do was applique it on. :)

Christmas Day!

Macie in her big girl chair....now we just use a high chair because she likes to feed herself. :)

Macie's Christmas laptop

Bryce put his bandana on Macie....it was pretty cute

???? Bryce taking silly pictures...I thought this one was funny

Tiling our kitchen

It turned out so good...I wish we had taken a before picture

My most recent craft....this is the back of the pinafore

and the front. I matched the lining with a cute little diaper cover for summertime

and these leggings for winter time....I LOVE the pattern for the leggings...they are SO easy!!

Love this chunky dimple butt with those rolly legs

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a lovely week. We stayed here in College Station, just Bryce, Macie and I and we had such a great time. We skyped with everyone on Christmas day and just relaxed. We opened presents, and made a yummy Christmas dinner. It was a quiet day and I have to admit I wouldn't have preferred it any other way. I was nervous I would be really homesick, and I did miss my family, but it was fun starting our own traditions.

Macie liked tearing up the paper. She couldn't quite open things up, but she'd grab hold of the paper and just shake shake shake until eventually what was inside fell out. It was pretty cute. We got her a little laptop and every time we'd open it she would shut it. It was pretty funny. We are so blessed to have such amazing families and friends. We loved all of the Christmas Cards and the gifts were also greatly appreciated. When we skyped with my parents and told them we were having a great Christmas my Mom said "dang....I was hoping you'd have a miserable Christmas so that you'd definitely be here next year." What a punk! :) I love you Mom, and we did miss you. :)

Christmas was more personal to me this year, having a baby and all. It really put things into perspective to me. Does anyone know the song Mary's Lullaby? It's BEAUTIFUL and makes me cry like a baby. I can't imagine having my little Macie suffer the pains Christ suffered. That must have been so hard, but like Mary, we are all only taking care of these little ones here on earth until they return to their father and mother in heaven.

This vacation is kind of weird. It's vacation because Bryce doesn't have school or work until the  18th! But for me...that means I'm working MORE because he's able to be home with Macie. So...not much of a vacation for me, if anything it's LESS of a vacation. We've gotten a lot of cleaning done around the house and we just took our Christmas decorations down. I already miss them. We re tiled our back splash in the kitchen because whoever did it before did AWFUL. Not only was it ugly, but it was pretty much rotting off the wall because they didn't seal it around the sink. We got an awesome deal on the little glass tiles and it turned out so nice! I LOVE IT!!! :)

That's about all here...Macie's just cute as ever, babbling up a storm. She makes the FUNNIEST noises. We've had many people tell us that she makes the funniest noises they have ever heard a baby make. She just discovered the squeaky noise that certain objects make (diaper boxes, linoleum, plastic, high chair tray, etc.) when she slides her hand over them. It's pretty cute seeing her little mind work. :) We love you all and miss you....hope all is going well.