Christmas Eve.

On Christmas Eve, we spent the day with my parents.
The girls love when Grandpa and Grandma are visiting from Florida.

We had many days of cooking food and baking in store over the week with many house guests arriving, so we decided Christmas Eve dinner at Texas Roadhouse sounded perfect.

A few early gifts were opened.

Cookies and milk were put out for Santa Claus.

And the reindeer were not forgotten.  Quinn made some special reindeer food and made sure to put plenty of it out for the reindeer to enjoy.  It was the very first thing she checked in the morning...and it was all gone!

Christmas Eve 2014

Someone said to me in passing one day "Oh, you have a matching set - how amazing."  She went on to tell me that all of her kids looked completely different from each other.
These two little sisters are definitely a matching set. :)

Christmas with Grandpa.

Back to Christmas catch-up!

Just before Christmas day we spent the day with my father-in-law.  The girls were excited to see Grandpa, Quinn called him "pizza grandpa" for a while because when we visit we always love to get Todd's favorite hometown pizza - yum!
(Once each grandparent started getting their own amusing nicknames, we knew it was time to add last names to their titles for her. :))

We had a lovely day with Grandpa.
And then to top off a great day we spent time with Great Grandma and all of Todd's family on his Dad's side.
I love that Christmas brings us all together.

love is an open door.

Taking a little break from Christmas posts for something special.
Our musical debut... well on the blog at least.  There is regular singing and dancing around here every single day.

Quinn & Mommy - Love is an Open Door
warning- this is not a lip syncing video, you will hear our lovely voices :)

Quinn said we should wear sunglasses.  I said we should wear scarves.

cabbage patch doll.

Can we pretty please freeze time for a little bit!!  I snuggle and kiss this sweet baby girl hundreds of times a day and it still will never be enough.  She is the most delicious, snuggly and happy baby ever.  I pretty much get nothing done around here because snuggles are top of the list, as they should be.

Her sweet little round face made her the perfect Cabbage Patch baby model. :)
Grandma made this adorable hat and it's just precious on her.

Quinn loves her new baby doll.

beauty and the beast.

Quinn had her 2nd dance recital, Beauty and the Beast.  She had been anxiously awaiting the next "dance concert" for months since her first one (Toy Story - in June).
Quinn loves to dance, so attending dance class has been perfect for her.  We know she is gaining so much from being a part of this that will be applied to many things later in life.
She gets so excited to get up on that stage!  And her costume for this recital was absolutely precious.
Our little "powderpuff" was adorable and did so great.  It never fails that I have tears in my eyes when I see her on the stage, growing up and having so much fun.

Grandma and Grandpa flew in from Florida early to catch her performance.

Flowers from Daddy. :)

The Recital Video:



Practicing at Dress Rehearsal with her shadow while all the older girls were up on stage dancing.



The show was adorable and so fun before the holidays.
We are so proud of our little Quinny.

andie's new ride.

already getting used to big sis driving :)

These two lucky little girls made out like bandits this Christmas!
Thank you Grandpa W. for this special present!