Leading Up to Christmas

The last few days leading up to Christmas were spent packing in as much fun as we could, savoring our final days with all our twinkle lights and Christmas trees and getting ready for Santa's arrival!

Our elves brought gingerbread houses for these two and they were ready to assemble them after nap time!

Christmas pj's...check!

Christmas books...check!

Snuggled up in Sissy's bed...check!

The Friday before Christmas we headed to Six Flags for Holidays in the Park.

It was COLD but we managed to ride some kiddie rides, visit Santa, see a show about Jesus being born and grab a funnel cake and hot chocolate before leaving due to freezing rain.

One last talk with Santa before the big night!

On December 23rd & 24th it snowed which just sent my Christmas excitement into overdrive!

Can every Christmas be a white Christmas, pretty please?!

Preschool Christmas Program

A couple weeks before Christmas Elle had her Preschool Christmas program. 

As I was getting ready I walked in my room and found her passed out, she must have needed a little power nap before the big show.

My beautiful girl all ready to go!

She was ready to sing loud and proud!

I had sent Eric up to church a good hour before the show started to save some seats, I was determined to get a prime seat to watch my girl!

They sang 4-5 Christmas songs and Elle did so great!

Her favorite song was "Joy to the World"

Her whole fan club was there waiting to hug, kiss and congratulate her after the show. 

So crazy to think it will be Ollie up there singing next year!

December 19th

To round out allll of Elle's birthday posts, here is how we spent the day of her birthday celebrating. Lord knows these babies deserve a week of celebrations!!

Cuddled up, watching the Rockettes with by baby girl the last night she is 4 years old. 

The next morning the birthday princess received breakfast in bed.

and obviously we started the day with presents!

Next we headed to the movie theater to see Ferdinand!

I don't know if they were more excited for the movie or the sour patch kids I bought them. 

After the movie we stopped at Mission Taco for a birthday lunch. 

After a stop at mom and dad's for Elle to open her birthday basket we headed to Von Maur to see Santa!!

Doing some shopping while the kids play at the train table.

This sweet girl, she is my world!!!!

While we were at the Meadows Elle and I stopped to check out the big Christmas tree while Eric and Ollie shopped some more.

We had a fun day celebrating our sweet baby girl.

5 years went by in a flash.

Elle's 5th Birthday Party

We celebrated Elle's 5th birthday at Cupcake Amore. It is a really cute Paris themed shop where the kids could decorate cupcakes. Since my girl loves Paris it was a no-brainer.

The morning of the party she was so excited!! She requested Little Ceasar's pizza so we stopped to grab that and balloons then we were headed to the party.

After pizza they brought out a couple crafts for the kids.

Decorate your own snowflake, and construct an Eiffel Tower out of marshmallows and toothpicks. The marshmallows were a big hit. :)

Look at Ollie sneaking eating the marshmallows instead of building with them.

After the little craft projects it was time to decorate their cupcakes...

and sing Happy Birthday to our sweet girl!

Next it was time for presents which Elle was so excited about!

She opened a pair of Welly Wisher rainboots to match her American Girl doll from Unc & Aunt Paige and she had the BEST reaction! She screamed with excitement!

Anything baby doll related is a favorite for Elle right now.

The newest member of the Hylton family, Liam.

A gift from the Voss family.

Elle is in LOVE!!

My beautiful birthday girl!!

Elle and her ladies!

We had to do a Target run that night and she somehow convinced me to let her bring her 2 babies and roll them in this new suitcase baby carrier she got from MawMaw and PawPaw. It was a long, slow trip through Target!

But such a fun day celebrating this smart, amazing, caring, beautiful little girl!!!