Christmas Mania & Grown Up Stuff *Wah*

One of my favorite Christmas traditions growing up was baking goodies with my mom. I want to carry on this tradition with Alexis. So I took off work Thursday and Friday so I could spend time with her baking goodies and getting prepared for the Christmas madness. We started baking Wednesday night when I got off work...

Momma's Lil Helper

Then we invited cousin "S" over to help us. We were up past midnight baking.

Then the girls got me up bright and early the next day to bake some more. It was exhausting but lots of fun. We baked 8 different things...Chocolate chip cookies, oreo truffles, chocolate covered pretzels, chocolate covered Ritz peanut butter crackers, snowballs, s'more bars, white chocolate oatmeal caramel bars, and english toffee. Here's the finished products.

The Holidays are absolutely chaotic for us. Christmas Eve we always go up to Derek's grandparents house for dinner and presents, then that night we go to the Derek's mom & dad's for presents, then Christmas morning we open presents at home, then head back to Derek's mom & dads for Christmas dinner, and finally to my mom & dad's for dinner and presents. It's completely exhausting, fun, and miserable (must.eat.lots.of.food.ZOMG!) all in one. We literally go nonstop for two days straight...go to one place, open presents, eat copious amounts of food, come home throw the new presents in the house, grab some more presents from under the tree and rush to the next stop, and repeat...FOUR times! It's chaotic and oh my poor house...by the end of it all my poor poor house looks like a tornado hit it.

Lexi ready to open some presents!

(Enough with the pictures already Mom!! Let's get this party started!!!)

All her presents and her new chair from gma & gpa

She's getting into the baby/barbie/motherly stage...*tear*.

I got Derek The Michael Jackson Experience Wii game. And let me tell you...this game couldn't have been more fitting for him. If you know my husband you know his love for MJ...like ZOMG!

Derek in action...And yes he's got "the glove" on :)

The girls playing :)

And for a complete change of subject... I bought this snowman cardholder this year...

...and I LOVE it!! I always get tons of cards and they usually just sit on my counter and pile up. Now I can display them beautifully :) And boy did I get some pretty cards this year...I especially love the picture cards. I just wish I had a creative way to save them, because I hate just throwing them out...

On another note...A LOT of grown up things happened this weekend...and it makes me kind of sad :( Lexi got a new table and chair set to eat on so we got rid of her highchair *tear* and also she moved out of her crib and into her big girl bed *tear*.

Now, one grown up thing that I wouldn't mind happening would be getting her POTTY TRAINED!!! ZOMG! Potty.training.will.be.the.death.of.me. Mark my words.

Hope you all had a very Merry Christmas!!

~Laci