Lil' decorator for hire

Ready to work! Opening her Sesame Street ornaments Look mama dinosaurs train! Now it's time for the red ornaments These next few steps take total concentration A quick clap for myself Pleased with my hard work :)

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving from Addison and all the Little People too~

Window Shoppers....

Stephen LOVES Christmas! I know most people do but he really really gets into it every year. Tonight we were going to eat dinner at Olive Garden with a quick pit stop into the mall to get Stephen a new phone cover and just happened to walk through Macy's and there Christmas Tree Extravaganza! She was in heaven and so was he. We had already purchased all of our "ornaments of the year" and were seriously only looking tonight. She found several ornaments similar to the one she had already chosen this year and kept asking "Is this for Addison's tree" and we would say "No you already have one" this silly grin would appear and she would answer back "OH yea! I'm funny"! What a kid (I really was there too! It's just more often than not I am the photographer)

Sara Beth Fielden and Justin Turner's Wedding

Here comes the bride....... Here comes the bride!
Today was Sara Beth's wedding and the first wedding that Addison has ever attended. She has been to several receptions but I just didn't feel she was wedding ready until now. Addison loves to play dress-up and be the princess and all that comes with those roles so when I told her this was Sara Beth's princess day she was on board! All day we talked about how we had to be very quiet while the preacher was talking and that we couldn't talk to Sara Beth until princess time was over (the reception). She was jazzed about the whole day, I packed her a small back-pack of snacks, kelly dolls, crayons and a doodle pad ~ she was set! Addison was quiet as a mouse the whole ceremony and couldn't take her eyes off the bridesmaids as they came down the isle then the Princess came and Mr. Bruce too! As soon as she saw Sara Beth she looked at Stephen and said "look daddy oh weee sissy how pitty" (all the kids call Sara Beth "Sissy"). The ceremony was georgeous and the food at the reception was Yum-O - Williamson Brother's BBQ. Addison and Emma Grace danced the reception up! We all had a fantastic time and Sara Beth was truly the Princess of the Evening

Her latest find!

Addison has found a new favorite game to play in her room, she gets inside her closet tells you "bye-bye" and closes the door behind her. Hummmm..... she has a great outdoor playhouse but maybe just maybe Santa will bring her some kind of indoor playhouse. Maybe? I think all little girls long for their own little place to nest. I can remember playing under my bed with the sheet pulled down on both sides to make walls and I would use a flash-light so I could see all my stuff. My brothers use to play under our front porch and dig dirt tunnels with their matchbox cars and G.I. Joe men (boys.... Yuck!) I snapped a quick video of Addison and her new apartment lastnight.

Wii Tournament Round 1

Our really good friends the Flournoy's met us at Moe's tonight for dinner and then back to our house for dessert and Wii fun! The gauntlet of video game war has been thrown down and here we go. To start off we were going to play our new Wii Resort game but I did not read the instructions correctly and see that you also needed to purchase these "motion" controller adapters and therefore the game was no good to us tonight, so we mini-golfed and played lawn darts. It was a lot of fun but a little un organized seeing as how we only had 2 controllers, one num-chuck and no motion adapter things we had to take turns and that was lame-o but the girls had fun running wild while we played on. Next time you see a post about a Wii tournament it will be sword fighting and boxing too cause we have all the needed supplies now and the gauntlet was thrown again :)

Freaky Friday

This morning started off instantly with my in a panic! I shall explain..... Lastnight Stephen, Addison and myself were going to have dinner at Slopes BBQ. While I was finishing my make-up Stephen and Addison shared a quick before dinner snack in the kitchen. Addison ran into the bathroom saying "I don't like it!" and trying to spit something out of her mouth, when I ask "what did you give her?" he replies "just a bite of candy" and I say "well she doesn't like it" and returns with "she's being silly, she's had chocolate before". So no biggy right? And we press on. In the car Addison starts coughing, sneezing, runny nose and watery eyes (almost instantly) she had had a cold a few days before but was well over the hump and I had already backed off the cough medicine dosage because it was nearly gone. Once we arrive at Slopes she is almost getting worse and worse by the second and we are both really confused. Stephen starts questioning why I backed off the meds if she is still obviously sick and apparently it's a little worse now. I quickly state (I am trying to keep this conversation nice for bloggers sake) that she had NOT coughed like this in over 5 days and the medicine was just being wasted, we both then decided to pack the food up and head home to give her some medicine. As soon as we arrive home I give her the dosage of "Red" Triaminic and almost instantly she is healed! WHAT?? OK! Triaminic is good but it certainly ain't no wonder drug. I mean the cough was gone, not one more sneeze, not watery eyes NOTHING!! I am still blown away! Well, the evening rocks on and everything else takes place as normal, we play dolls, color, she got a shower with me and then eventually ate the rest of her dinner! She was completely fine! We read bed time stories and went to bed like normal. Well......... about an hour after she is asleep we were watching TV and he looks at me and says "I hope it wasn't that Reese's I gave her that made her do that" WHAT????????????? I flip-out! I went running upstairs to check her breathing (of course she was fine) and then I return downstairs to question him more. How much did you give her? You knew she had never had peanut butter? What the world where you thinking? Now he is feeling like poop and for the rest of the night was take turns checking on her and we even decided to let her sleep with us just incase she started having difficulty breathing. Well, well, well the next morning when she "Pops" her little head out of bed her entire face, eyes, lips, everything was swollen and I mean big time swollen! Instantly I check to make sure she is breathing normally, rush to get the Benadryl and call the Doctor's office. Because she wasn't having any signs of respiratory problems he wanted me to bring her to the office instead of the whole ambulance and ER mayhem. By the time we go to the office I could tell the swelling was going down but he insisted on re-checking her in 3 hours and then wanted to give me an Epi-pen training course. Awesome! Well in 3 hours the swelling was nearly gone (and she never seemed to be affected by it at all) and I had been given 3 Epi-pens and we were to start double and triple checking all of her foods and snack foods for any peanut or processed on equipment that processes peanuts too labels. All is well, and she apparently is only allergic to the actual nut and not any of the relating things, but we are always on the watch now and I had rather her just do without a particular cookie than to ever have to use that Epi-pen on her little thigh! I snapped a few photos after the first Doctor visit but not before! I was a little pre-occupied :) We are all very thankful that the Lord was watching Addison and wether we were arguing about it or not, he got us home to give her the Triaminic (that contains an Antihistamine) that stopped it all! And now we all communicate a little better because of this one accident. The End