Today Grandma Mann headed home. We had SO much fun while she was here! 

we did LOTS of baking!

 Grandma and Kings did lots of tree gazing. 

He is so gentle with the ornaments and loves to look at each one. 

 Ez and Grandma repaired a broken gumball machine.
I love the look of concentration! 

 It SNOWED and on the way to a cookie exchange

Grandma and I almost lost control of the car!

 Ezra sang in a kids choir at church.

 They were dressed as reindeer, 

but he refused to wear the antlers. 
what a cutie!

 We visited SANTA!! Ez loved it, Kings hated it. 

We had tons and tons of fun!! And like always, it  went WAY tooooo fast. 

Come back soon Grandma!! 

I can't believe It's time for CHRISTMAS!! My Dad comes in Thursday and I have some last minute shopping and some cleaning to do. Looking forward to these next few days and enjoying my husband while he has time off!! I hope you have a blessed Christmas week! 

ONE YEAR!!

Happy Birthday to you KINGSLEY! 
You're ONE!

Says:

Mama

Dada

Nigh nigh

(12/5) starts saying uh oh

Bye bye

Ah duh 'all done'

Niiigh 'nice'.. (When petting our dog, or his own hair)

Skills:

Has taken a few steps (1st steps were 11/30 and 12/13 took 5!)

Stands with no hands

Claps

Waves
Points

Kisses

Shakes head yes and no. Will shake his head no if he doesn't want you're about to feed him.

Signs 'all done' and 'more'

My favorite part of being a Mama is seeing the love between these two! 

I can't believe the joy this past year has brought to our family!! 

Kingsley is a sweet sweet boy. He is much more of a Mama's boy then Ezra was. Kingsley sleeps well at night and naps at least twice a day. He still nurses, and loves fruit, carrots, and breaded carbs .. bread, cereal, etc. He is SO attached to his blankie and throughout the day he'll pick it up and say "nigh, nigh" in the cutest most high pitched voice. He tries to walk some these days, but still thinks crawling is the quickest method of transportation. This past month he's been getting spoiled with love and kisses from Grandma Mann. He especially loves when she picks him up and shows him all the ornaments on the Christmas tree. He's thin and tall with 6 teeth. Kingsley likes bath time and his favorite toys are his brothers. I LOVE YOU KINGSLEY and can't wait to see what God has in store for your life!!

Happy Birthday to 

Kingsley!

(Props to Tony for drawing this amazing (1) fish. 

Always nice to have an artistic husband!)

speaking of artistic husband, here is the front side
of the birthday invitation Tony designed!

Love it!

 Mommy & Daddy with the Birthday Boy!

 This is just about as messy (and excited) as he got with the cake.

He was saying & signing "all done". Guess he doesn't take after me 

with the whole sweet tooth thing!?

 Kitchen table

 Thing 1 & Thing 2 cupcakes

Kings LOVED LOVES these balloons (can't lie.. 

they're still hanging up because he's enjoying them so much.)

 Candy table (guests filled up bags to take home).

 Books & characters were displayed around the house.

 Kingsley's 

cake I made!

 Mommy and her Birthday Boy!

 The Birthday Boy!!

Green eggs & ham platter.

I had been imagining and planning for a long time. Everyone helped me out so it could be pulled off just the way I wanted.  I was so happy with the way everything turned out and I think a great time was had by all!! I love you Kingsley and I can't believe I will have a ONE year old on Wednesday. You're the sweetest most precious baby boy in all the world!!!! 

You want to make me!

These cookies are delicious to die for! I highly suggest you make them. For the recipe, click HERE! 


OK, I'm off to take a little rest while the kiddos are down. Anyone else find it  hard to stay in real clothes when it is so frigid outside? I just can't get warm, and can't resist choosing sweats over jeans. 

The cookies are good.
Recipe coming soon.

Nutmeg and Cinnamon=My best friends.
What is going on with blogger??
Good night now.. I'm much to tired to be awake.

Just silenced the mixer for a few minutes so my mom in law could cuddle her sweet Grandbaby in the rocker. I guess I'll take a quick break from making DELICIOUS Chocolate chip Oatmeal Cookies. This is our 1st full day with Grandma here. So what have we been up to??

Making gingerbread sleighs (that my Mother in law brought all the way from WASHINGTON..!!
Watching Toni buy an ungodly amount of candy and baking supplies for Gingerbread houses
Playing pounce
Decorating our Christmas tree
Sipping coffee
Lovin little boys

Our plans..
Head to Nashville for Ez to get his hair cut
Visit Santa
See family
Enjoy the Christmas season in every wonderful way imaginable
Oh and my so sweet husband has requested a mom and son dinner date.... So cute!!! I hope one day my boys take me out.. Precious!!

Check back soon because there might just be a few more tasty sweets on the 'must bake' list. I won't be stingy with the recipes either.

Bye friends!

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving. We have SO much to be thankful for!

I woke up to these sweet brothers..

My little Kings had his 1st Thanksgiving..

We had the most wonderfully delicious food..

My Mom is the best!

We had a toast to the newly engaged couple and I made my 1st ever fondant cake. It was so much fun ... and work.. and I learned a lot.

I can't wait to try another in a couple weeks for my little boy.

I hope you all have a wonderful week! I'm off to prepare the house for Grandma Mann's arrival!!

This boy had spaghetti for the 1st time.

Not really sure if the bib helped much at all.

Unlike Ezra, Kingsley is a huge fan of spaghetti.

FINALLY one of our children realizes he is 1/2 Italian!

Kingsley is representing!

My sister is engaged!!!!

CONGRATULATIONS

Jenna & Jason, I'm SO happy for you both!

Now let the planning begin.

can't stop thinking SEUSSY

as I plan Kingsley's birthday.

Things checked off the list:

plates,napkins,silverware,cups,tablecloth

grinch tote bags

funky, seussy decor

invitation (being made by Tony)

seuss t-shirts for the boys

big colorful lollipops (for the take home candy bar)

&

cupcake inspiration

I'm getting so excited and filled with ideas.

Can't wait to share pictures!

what could this mean?

(so sorry for the poor photo quality.. my camera phone STINKS)

We've made a countdown chain because Grandma Mann is coming to visit in only 14 days! She'll be here for 3 weeks and will get to be a part of Kingsley's 1st birthday!!

We've got lots of Christmas things to do while she's here!

see santa, decorate gingerbread houses, make cookies, have a faux christmas!!, and play lots of pounce. We're very excited if you can't tell!

Ps- Truthfully Tuesday will occur when I actually have something interesting to say. haha. I'm not going to post just to post on that day. Buh-bye readers!

someone swapped my baby out with this 11 month old CHILD!!

-this kid is-

furniture walking

clapping

walking behind toys

shakes head 'no' and nods 'yes'

has 4 teeth

says mama, dada, nigh nigh, and ... we THINK he's saying eda (ezra)!

loves to eat rice cakes, mum mums and CHEESE.

wakes OFTEN during the night this month, due to teething.. and now perhaps habit. Boo.

really loving daddy

crawls super fast

Oh hey, what's that?? Oh.. you wanna see my top tooth?!

Hi.. I'm super cute!

until next time.. a view from behind

I love photographing nature.

My goal is to sneak away during naptime on Saturday and

get some awesome pictures of the changing leaves. I love fall.

Howdy y'all!

we've been sippin' on hot apple cider

this little Indian went to his 1st costume party and tied for 1st place

trick or treating

frolicking in Autumn leaves

carving pumpkins

Happy November 1st!!