Surprise Trip for Emma's Birthday

Emma has been begging to go to American Girl for her birthday. She was getting a birthday trip instead of a birthday party this year. We decided to surprise them with a trip to Orlando instead of Atlanta. 

They just realized we were not going to north to Atlanta, but instead south to Orlando. 

We gave them these suitcases for Christmas and they were so excited to get to use them for the first time. 

We made it to Orlando and went straight to Disney Springs for a little bit of fun. 

Emma was excited to use some of her money on bath salts. She created a tube of her favorite colors of bath salts. 

We seem to always take a picture with this Mickey and Minnie every time we are at Disney Springs. 

Then we went and grabbed some yummy cupcakes. 

Then we went to the American Girl hotel where we were staying for the night.

We were met with this bed, blanket, pillow, and little robe waiting for Emma and her dolls.

Spider Man made an appearance and then it was off to bed for everyone!

It has been a great start to our surprise trip! 

Birthday Celebration at School

Emma's birthday is on Sunday and she won't be at school Monday and Tuesday of next week, so we celebrated her birthday today at school. She requested chocolate glazed sprinkled doughnuts and that is just what she got! A couple more days of her being seven and then we will have an eight year old in our house!

Best Buds

These boys have known each other since they were just a few days old. Us mamas have been friends since we were teens. They get so excited when they get to hang out. Today we met up at Chehaw Park to let them play. Before we got the sweet picture, they had to show us their best super hero/muscle pose!

New Year's Eve Fun

We went to the Tomlinson's tonight for dinner and to let the kids play. Boys will be boys and they were showing off their muscles in just their boxer briefs! :) The girls played dress up and all things girly. It was a fun evening! We are so blessed that our kiddos play so well together! We didn't last until midnight, but instead came home to watch the ball drop.

Riding Bikes

Emma has been so scared to learn how to ride her bike without training wheels. Scott has been working with her this week and each time she was getting a little more comfortable. We told her when she learned to ride it on her own, we would give her $20! She was excited about that. :) Here she is last night riding. It was the first night she was on her own. Scott captured these pictures. 

 Then today we all got out for a nice afternoon stroll around the neighborhood. It was the first time I was around Emma where she was riding her bike all on her own. 

Landon was excited to ride his bike too! 

Scott also rode his bike and I walked with Georgia. It was a nice outing and I can't wait to do it more often as the weather warms up and the days start becoming a little longer!

Christmas with Scott's Families

Scott's mom and Larry came over on Christmas Eve afternoon. They got Emma this Enchantimal play set so she can use it with all of her recent enchantimal dolls. They got Landon some matchbox cars but he wasn't into getting his picture taken. 

 Then we did Christmas with the Childs side of the family on today. Scott's dad, Susan, Grandma Mary, Ashleigh, and Clay all came over for dinner. We ate southern syle food and then opened gifts. Landon was excited about his sleeping bag. Emma already has one and he has been wanting one for awhile now. Emma got some more enchantimal dolls. 

 Here is sweet Grandma Mary modeling her hat we got her. She visits Hardee's daily just about so we always buy her a gift card for Christmas. 

 After opening our gifts, we played the gift wrapping game where you partner up and each partner can only use one hand to help wrap and label the gift. Landon and I won the game! 

 Ashleigh and Clay came in second place. 

 And Emma and Grandma Mary came in last. Emma was not too thrilled about that. Haha! It was quite funny to watch Emma's facial expressions during this game. Grandma Mary wanted it all to be perfect and neat and Emma just wanted it to be over! 

 It was a fun game and a lot of laughs were shared!

Our Christmas

The kids love opening one present on Christmas Eve. This year they chose this present and were excited to see Scruff-a-Luvs. Emma has been begging for one and all of that begging made Landon want one. 

 Then it was off to bathe them to see what animal they got. They both got puppies!

Then it was time for their Christmas pajamas and reindeer food. They love throwing the food out for the reindeers every Christmas Eve. 

Here are their surprises from Santa. 

 Emma got her first dated American Girl doll. She asked for Nanea because she is from Hawaii and that is where Scott and I went this summer for our anniversary. Landon's big gift was the super hero set. Then Santa brought them a basketball goal to share. It will be nice to play some basketball in the spring and summer. They each got their own basketball to use.

We were all in to watching them open their presents that we did not take many pictures of us opening our gifts.

Here was Emma and Landon's last gift to open. They each got their own rolling suitcase. They were so excited! Emma's has unicorns on heres and Landon's has dinosaurs on his.

 Then Scott and Landon met my dad at the movies to watch the Bumblebee movie. Emma and I were going to go but instead we settled for movie popcorn and drinks and came back home to watch a more girly movie. :)

 It has been a great day, but remembering the birth of our Lord and Savior has been the best part!