Our Shared Journal 342/365

LeeLee has a Justin Bieber journal that she has had for awhile.  I picked it up one day and wrote her a little note in the journal.  Since then, this journal has become our little journal of love letters to each other.  She drops it off with me at night, and looks for a note in the morning.  She brought it to me tonight and gave it to me.  It was so sweet to open it up.
Dear Mom, I love you very much.  You are my favorite mom.  I loved the letter you gave me.  I'm glad you love me so much.  Here is a thing to help remember that you got me.
Attached to the journal is a little silver airplane.  The letter is super sweet, but when we got to the airplane charm, I had one of those "Houston, we have a problem" moments.  Where did this charm come from?  Who is now missing it?  How on earth did LeeLee get a hold of it?  She has an explanation for the charm, and I hope it is correct.  But just in case, if you recognize this charm, please let me know!

Happy 12th Birthday Noelle! 341/365

Ah, my sweet girl.  Can it be that it has been twelve years since I first saw her precious face and her gorgeous fuzzy red hair?  I can honestly say that I am so blessed when it comes to this child.  She is amazingly responsible, helpful, caring, smart, and a joy to be around.  She is what I call an old soul.  She takes life very seriously.  Her favorite TV show is Andy Griffith, and she loves praise and worship music.  She is so grown up now that she will be moving to her own room.  We have been gathering stuff for her new room for a few months now, and she got some more today for her birthday.  I am kinda jealous of her room.  It is going to be neat!

Faith is the assurance of things hoped for.....the conviction of things not seen.  Hebrews 11:1
Faith prays for rain and packs an umbrella.  That is what her shirt says.  That was her other birthday present from me.  Her eyes lit up when she saw the matted picture of this piece of art.  Since I know the artist, I got her to put it on a shirt for Noelle and picked it up yesterday so she would have it today for her birthday.  She was so excited to have this on a shirt.  Paul took her on an early morning date before school.  I stayed home and made yummy rolo cupcakes for her and a few of her classmates and delivered them at lunch.  She is not done celebrating though.  She says we are going to celebrate all weekend.  Wohoo!  I love celebrating, especially celebrating a beautiful girl such as Noelle.  Happy Birthday Noelle.....I'm so glad that you are the precious little one that God allowed me to know.  You are perfect!

Percy 340/365

I can't let the pre-Christmas days pass without snapping a picture of Percy.  He is such a great elf!  He is so good.  He doesn't do anything crazy, and he never makes a mess that would fall on me to clean up.  Percy does bring lots of joy to the kids.  I am so glad that Santa sent him years ago to us.  I miss the days where I would catch the kids talking to him and confessing to things they had done, or trying to convince Percy of their siblings guilt.  I sure wish Percy could talk and tell me all the stories that I missed.  I hope he keeps coming for years to come.  I don't think anyone ever gets to big for elf magic...I know I love it!

LeeLee's Letters 339/365

I love LeeLee's letters.  She wrote this one for the elf to take to Santa.  Luckily I saw it on the table before Percy took it to the North Pole.  I also love the phonetic spelling.

Dear Santa, I'm not going to ask for any presents because I'm a naughty girl and because I want a surprise.  Love, LeeLee S.  

Scissor Hands 338/365

The little girls both got new hairstyles last night.  Hope got out of the shower and begged me to cut her hair because her bangs were hanging in her eyes.  So I got out the scissors and evened up all of her hair.  Then I was able to grab little Miss LeeLee and cut hers too.  I finished and she said, "Great mom, now I look like a boy!"

Of course everyone at school thought they both looked adorable, so she is not mad at me anymore.  She may however get mad because I put this picture on the blog.  Maybe she will quit making all these funny faces when I take pictures now.  (She reads this everyday......Love you LeeLee!  Funny faces and all :))

The Christmas Trimmings 337/365

Today we decorated for Christmas.  The kids were so full of excitement.  I love watching them. Hunter was excited to help Paul decorate the windows by the roof this year.  Of course LeeLee had to try and get her hand in it too.

 There is nothing better than the stockings waiting to be filled by Santa.  That got them so excited.

I have searched the world over for an ornament that looks like Pippa.  I haven't found one, so I settled on this one.

I will leave you all with a video of the little girls singing a song they have been working on.  If you can, pay attention to the words.  When I first figured out what they were singing, I cried.

Football Buddy 336/365

After a fun morning of wedding showers and craft fairs, I was ready to snuggle up in the bed and watch the Alabama vs. Georgia game.  I even put a red sweater on Pippa for the occasion since Georgia would be wearing their red jersey today.  She snuggled up on me and we watched the game.  See, I am smiling in this picture that Noelle took because Georgia was winning at the time.  I however was not smiling at the end of the game.  Congrats to my Alabama friends.  I will be pulling for you in the big game.  Even though I would have loved for Georgia to have the chance, I am happy that the SEC seems to dominate.