Christmas Eve shopping

Rusty did the sweetest thing this Christmas.  We don't normally exchange gifts or if we do, it is something small.  This year he told me he wanted to get me something really nice, something I wouldn't normally buy myself, but wasn't sure what to get.  So instead, he gave me money and told me to go splurge on myself. 

Alaina and I went on Christmas Eve to the Green Hills mall in full splurge mode.  I shopped for a nice purse and she rode a billion escalators, ate pretzels and candy.  We had a blast shopping.  She never tired or whined about the walking (a small miracle) and we had a great girls day.



Christmas program

Alaina had her Christmas program this morning.  They recited Twas the Night Before Christmas.  I remember doing the exact same program in the exact same way when I was younger.

New tooth

This morning I happened to see Alaina open her mouth wide and noticed an extra tooth in there.  She STILL doesn't really have any loose teeth, but that hasn't stopped a permanent tooth from pushing its way in.

Alaina is 6

Since Alaina had her party Saturday, we saved our gift to her for her actual birthday.  Once I got home from work, we let her open it.  She's been using a hand me down ipad that I got from work years ago and it has stopped functioning well.  When Best Buy had their Kindle Fires on the cheap, we picked one up for her.  She was so happy!!!





















Then we let her pick where we went to eat.  She picked Dairy Queen, with the reasoning that we would get dinner AND dessert there.


Even better when they messed up her order and gave her both chocolate AND strawberry sundaes!


Happy Birthday Alaina!

Skate Party

Alaina had her 6th birthday at the Skate Center.  She's only skated a few times but always enjoyed it.  This time was no different!

Singing to the birthday girl!

Opening her presents -

She's a blur in most of them because she was constantly moving and the lighting was bad.

Caitlin and Alaina skating together - so sweet!

Shortly after this picture, they fell and Caitlin fell on top of her.  Oops!

Caitlin and Alli



Alaina and Rusty

It looks like Rusty was asleep but he was actually tickling her the whole time.