Advent #4

Day #4 was to make a Christmas Wish List.  Josiah has told me a ton of times what he wanted Santa to bring him, but I wanted to write it all down so I could keep it.  I just googled free download Christmas List and found one that I liked.  I wish I would have saved the link so I could share..but I can't find it!

Sleeping and Hello Kitty

Josiah still dislikes sleeping in his room at night for some reason.  He has been doing a lot better, but he always asks us to come back in 2,478 times before he goes to bed.  This particular night he only asked us to come in there 2 times and then he was quiet.  I thought he was sleeping so I went back there to cover him up and this is what I found.  He had fallen asleep in the hallway.  It was so funny to me!!!  (sorry if you are a fb friend you already saw this!)

We went to Atlanta on Sunday to go to my doctor's appointment and Josiah does really good on the 6 hour drive.  We usually stop one time at McDonald's so he can play and stretch a little.  He got a Kids' Meal and he wanted the "kitty cat" toys.  I couldn't tell him NO so here he is playing with his girly McDonald's toys!  I don't blame him..who doesn't like Hello Kitty!? 

Another thing I realized when getting a Kids' Meal is that they now serve smaller fries (the packaging is too cute) and they also give apples!  I think that is such a great idea!!!!  Josiah loves french fries and apples so it is perfect for him! 

Advent Day #3

Saturday Josiah picked his number off the Advent Calendar and it said Go see SANTA!!!!  He was so excited!  We have been asking him for about a week if he was going to sit on Santa's lap and he kept telling us YES!  So we would ask him what he was going to tell him.  Saturday morning I had a brunch wedding shower for Jordan.  It was so cute!  While I was there Josh was taking Josiah to Lowes to find some stuff for a Christmas present.  When they got there a lady asked if they were there to build a train.  Josh didn't know anything about that but he decided it was perfect for him and Josiah to do.  Josiah loves trains and he loves tools so he had a blast. 

Here is Josiah at Lowes working on his train.  They are doing this for the next 3 weeks for the kids.  Josh has somewhere to go this Saturday so I will be taking him.  Josh swears it is easy..but we will see!!!

After Josiah's nap we headed to go see Santa at the Mall!  He had this cute shirt from Wendi that said Santa's little helper and had a tool belt on the bottom.  This was before we left our house. 

This was him in line waiting to sit on Santa's lap.  He was so excited!!!! 

I don't have the actual picture from him sitting on Santa's lap because we are using it on our Christmas cards but I will post it later!  He did really good!  He told Santa he wanted a fire truck. I thought he was going to cry for one second but then he was okay!  

After Santa we went over to Josh's Aunt Tammy's house and baked some goodies with her and Micah.   

Me and Micah...

Josiah and Micah...Can you tell he loves her?!

I'm hoping to get caught up with my post about the rest of the 4 days on our Calendar.  Hope everyone is having a great Wednesday.  I don't about where you are but it is quite chilly here today so we are staying inside!  Josiah is helping me clean and we are watching movies - his favorites right now that we watch over and over and over are Polar Express and Finding Nemo!!!

How do you like your taters?

Radom I know...but I love mash potatoes.  My mom used to make homeade ones that were delicious but I have never been able to make them like her.  I could never decide how many to cook for just Josh and I and I always had way too many leftover...that is if I didn't make them too mushy and they didn't go in the trash.  I quit making them all together.  I have tried everything. Even the powder.  But I do NOT like them  Don't get me wrong..I am not too good for the powder, I just can't do it for some reason.  

Anyway, to get to my point of this post...We ate at Josh's aunt's house the other night and man I fell in love!  These are so easy to cook and they taste sooooo good!  They take 10 minutes in the microwave and you add some milk and butter and HELLO homeade tasting mash potatoes!  AND they are the perfect amount.

   

Ok..sorry I just wanted to share.  We had some leftover and I just got through eating some! 

Advent Day #2

Today Josiah got to play with playdough!  We haven't ever played with it at the house but he says he plays with it at "school" all the tiime.  I say a recipe on Pinterest and made some last night.  It was extremely easy!!  Here are a few pictures..

See below for Day #1

December 1st

HAPPY DECEMBER Y'ALL!!!

I decided to try something new this year and make an Advent Calendar for Josiah since he is older!  I got some of the ideas off Pinterest, but most of them you had to go purchase a lot of supplies..and WELL I am cheap, so I used what I had around the house and paid nothing for it! 





This morning Josiah got to take #1 off.  On the back fo each number I have an activity that we will do that day.  Today was one of Josiah's favorite things....He loves to make coffee with daddy.  So they made coffee while listening to Christmas music!!!

I'm hoping to post everyday about what we did for the advent calendar!

Rach's Shower Part 2

Here are some pictures of Rach's shower.  She is doing Madylin's room in damask and pink so we thought we would do her shower in the same colors.  It turned out so cute!!!!

I found this cute idea on my favorite website Pinterest.  The guests fill out this wishing list for the baby and you hang it on the tree and then give it to the mom-to-be for a keepsake!  Click here for the pinterest site.

These are the glasses that we used. We (Josh and Jaime) drank a whole bunch of Starbucks so we could use the glasses for the shower!

                                      

This was the sign above the water bottles

In the invitations we asked everyone to bring a book.  We put this in front of the book basket.

Delicious cupcakes from Sam's!

One of the table decorations.  

Madylin's name blocks



I didnt' get any pictures of the food but we had:

Spinach Dip

Pizza Puffs

Buffalo Chicken Dip

Chicken Salad with Crescent Rolls - Sam's

Fruit Kabobs

Pigs -n- a blanket - Sam's

Cupcakes - Sam's

White Chocolate Covered Oreos

Cream Puffs - Sam's

 I canNOT wait to meet lil Miss. Madylin!!