Hats

I may be biased, but I think Anniston has to be the cutest baby in the world when she wears hats...

My favorite hat! 

Valentine's Day

We love traditions in our family.  Jake and I have a Valentine's tradition that we've been doing since we got married.  Every year on Valentine's Day, we go to Sonic and share a Sweetheart Shake.  I love this.  It reminds me of when we were first married and going to Sonic for Valentine's Day was all we could afford, but it was enough.  We envision ourselves being in our seventies and pulling up to Sonic to share our Sweetheart Shake.  Man, I love my husband and am so thankful for my amazing Valentine.

This year's shake= Cherry with mini chocolate chips! 

We also got the opportunity to think about what our Valentine's Day would look like for our kids.  Jake decided he wanted to have a different flower for each of his girls that he would get every year for them.  Jake chose yellow daisies for Anniston, representing the abundant JOY and HAPPINESS that overflows from her life.

For me, I decided I wanted to do cupcake dates...so Anniston and I went on a cupcake date.  Jake was jealous of our date, so we let him tag along!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Thursday lunch dates

I am so very thankful to have Thursday's off.  On Thursday's, Anniston and I meet Jake for lunch, and it's so fun!  We love getting to see him!

Lita

Lita's life has gotten significantly better in the last few months...she has made quite a friend.  Anniston LOVES Lita.  She wants to sit with her and be next to her all the time.  They are definitely little buddies.

New Year's Eve

Jake and I aren't usually big New Year's Eve people- we don't usually make big plans.  This year, we had so much fun...the perfect amount of low key and the perfect amount of celebration.  We went to dinner with our friends the Waggoner's, then went to see Lincoln.  We got out around 11 and made it to friends house just in time to jump around, blow our noise makers, scream HAPPY NEW YEAR, steal a quick New Year's kiss, and head home to bed!  Perfect night for us!  I'm so excited about what this new year will bring- if His plans for us are half as good as this last year, it's gonna be awesome!  I am so very thankful for this past year- so much to celebrate!

My girly girl

I'm pretty sure Anniston has decided she likes being girly.  She likes her tutu to be on at all times, even over her jammers, and she loves to wear multiple bows in her hair at any given time, and she LOVES her new sunglasses.  I have a feeling she will definitely have an opinion about what she will be wearing before I know it!

Tutu day

 "Mom, I've GOTTA have these"

Christmas

We had so much fun celebrating Christmas with our families.  We went to see my mom's family in Tulsa, then we went to the lake to spend some time with my family and Nana Great.  Then back to Norman where we went to Norman Community's Christmas Eve service and then had our family Christmas.  Our Christmas tradition is usually Hideaway pizza, mattress in the living room, watch Love Actually and The Holiday, and sleep in the living room.  This year since we did it on Christmas Eve, we had to substitute for Marco's pizza, because Hideaway Pizza was closed.  We love this tradition.  We also realize that soon we will need to change our movie choices when Anniston is old enough to join us all night, but that's ok by us.  Then Christmas morning, we opened presents and Jake's family came to spend the day with us.  We went to see a movie and had an assortment of yummy appetizers.  Our Christmas break was so fun.  I just love the holidays, getting some set aside time to celebrate Jesus' birth with family and friends.  Love it.

We also took Anniston to see Santa.  I think the pic is pretty hilarious.  She looks neither terrified nor happy...just pretty unimpressed with the whole thing.

Anniston and Santa

Pops and the girls

 Nana Great and the girls

Nana and the girls

Christmas Jammers 

  Christmas Eve