Tis the Season....

December is a very busy month for Christmas celebrations!

The Baird Family 2010 Christmas Photo

Mommy & Presley

On Friday, December 3rd, we had Mikey's work Christmas Party. It was a fun night out for the two of us. Thanks to Grammy & Grampy for watching the girls.

On Sunday night, December 5th, we finally got our Christmas Tree.

All loaded up on the truck!

Kiley checking it out after we put it in the stand.

Oh Christmas Tree

On Friday, December 10th, I took the girls to Midlothian for a Girls Christmas Party. Before we headed south, I took some pictures of the girls in their adorable Christmas Outfits! It was pretty close to impossible to get Kiley to stay still and Presley just watched Kiley the whole time.
Here are a few of them.






This one is so sweet.

We had a delicious dinner and all exchanged PJs. Lisa had the table set so cute!

My place setting.

We didn't get a group picture. I am totally slacking on pictures these days. We had so much fun with you girls. We love our PJs and thanks to Lisa for hosting!

On Saturday morning, we continued a tradition that we have been doing for years. We went to the Kroh's to bake Christmas Cookies. We started years ago with the 6 of us girls. Cheri, Mom, Melissa, Tricia, Mycah and Me.

Now our families have grown!! Elise (Tricia's Stepdaughter) and Jordyn (Melissa's Daughter) decorating cookies.

The girls keeping an eye on Presley.

On Saturday night, we headed up to Allen for another annual Christmas Party. Kiley stayed the night with Grammy and Grampy and Presley came with us. I did not take any pictures. I will need to get some from the rest of the girls. Courtney hosted this year. Everything was beautifully decorated. We had a delicious dinner and then we opened presents and played catch phrase. It was a blast as always. I think this was our 9th year!

Last Thursday, we went to Daddie's work to see Santa. Daddie and Kiley!

Daddie and Presley. Presley was exhausted from all of the chaos.

I am still waiting on Presley's picture with Santa. I will post later. Kiley told Santa what she wants, so we are all ready for Christmas!

Stay tuned for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day pictures!

Alison's Bridal Shower

On Saturday, December 4th, Mom and Mycah hosted a Bridal Shower for Mycah's best friend, Alison. She is a close family friend and she did my makeup for my wedding, so of course I had to help! We had a romantic, vintage theme going.

Pictures of the happy couple.

The Entry Table

The Sign In Sheet

The tree was decorated in white lights and feathers. We had picture frame ornaments as favors all over the tree.

A close up of the favors.

The menus

Ooops, it is a little blurry but you get the idea.


The Napkins

Some flowers

We had a fire going the whole night!

The Bride opening gifts. This was a cake made out of her bath towels, hand towels and wash cloths. Isn't it cute!

Dad came home from a conference in the middle of the shower. I had to take a picture, he looked so handsome. Presley got to come help too! Kiley stayed home with Daddie.

Mycah & Alison

After the shower, they had a slumber party for Alison's bachelorette party. Alison and her Mom made these adorable favors. They are the fuzzy socks with grippers on the bottom.

The girls toasting the beginning of the sleep over!

Mom and Mycah are going to kill me, but for some reason I didn't get pictures of our life size dress form and the cake. I swore I took pictures of both. I even remember Mom asking me if I did....I blame my lack of sleep over the last few months. Sorry girls. I am sure Alison's Mom got the pictures.

Congratulations to Alison and Michael!

Presley is Three Months!

On Wednesday, Presley turned 3 months old! She is such an angel. So easy going. She is eating about every 3 hours and one to two times during the night. Poor Kiley has been sick Presley's entire life and Presley is such a good little sister. When we have to tend to big sister, Presley waits patiently. She is still our little jet setter. She now has two plane trips under her belt before the age of 3 months.

She still loves to be swaddled when she sleeps, and she has been sleeping longer stretches during the night when big sister lets her. Her eye-hand coordination is really progressing. She holds her Sofie the Giraffe in her hands and puts it in her mouth. She also plays with the dangling toys in her car seat and baby gym. She can hold onto them now instead of just bat at them.

She is starting to notice Mommy, Daddie and Kiley. She still smiles at everyone, but knows our voices. Kiley and Presley are really starting to love each other. Kiley can make Presley laugh and Kiley comes over to Presley and "baby talks" to her in a high pitched voice. They are constantly making eye contact. It is the cutest thing.

She still does a lot of talking and she has the sweetest eyes. Her smiles are soooo big and so contagious. She is still in size 1 diapers, but she is getting bigger by the day. All of her newborn hair is falling out and her blonde is growing in underneath. She is such a sweet, good baby. Thanks for being such a trooper Pres. Mommy, Daddie and Sister love you very much!

New York to remember Grandpa

We left Saturday morning after Thanksgiving to go up to New York to be with family and to remember Grandpa. Our flight was at 545am. Most people dread that early flight, but it is ideal for me and the girls. We seem to be up at all hours of the night anyway and the girls go right back to sleep on the plane. Since both girls were lap passengers, Kiley flew with Marmee and Mycah and Presley flew with me. Since we booked our tickets at the last minute, our seats were all over the place. Luckily Mom and Mycah were able to sit together with Kiley and Presley and I had our quiet time on the flights. Unfortunately, Mikey had to stay home and work. Thank goodness for my parents and Mycah to help with the girls. Both girls are AMAZING travelers. They did so well. When we arrived in New York it was FREEZING! We stayed inside the entire time we were there.

Despite the circumstances, it was so nice to be with family. Grandma's first time to meet Presley!

My Cousin's son, Kaleb, wanted to hold the baby. He is expecting a little sister in February, so he needed the practice. It didn't last very long....

Dad, Greg, Bruce, Emily and Paul

We put a lot of pictures of Grandpa on the mantle.

The service was on Tuesday. Kiley helping sissy get ready.

Pretty girl Presley!

Mommy and my girls.

Kiley's new favorite toy. She asked Santa for one!

A picture with Grandma.

Mom and Mycah with the girls.

The girls at the table.

The girls were pretty tired from all of the visitors.

Over 100 people came by the house to pay their respects to Grandpa.

Kiley with Uncle Scott

Grandma getting some more Presley time.

It was so nice to spend time with everyone. In the summer, we are going, going, going and this was nice and relaxing to just sit around, talk and be with each other. The girls got sooo much attention from all of the family. Kiley knew she could go up to anyone and stick her arms up and someone would pick her up. They loved being held ALL THE TIME. It was a little hard to break that habit once we got back home. There is only one of me and two of them, so they both couldn't be held all the time. But it was worth it for them to get loved on by all of our wonderful loving family. We love you guys so much and miss you already.

The journey back home was quite an adventure. It started snowing the morning we were scheduled to leave. Dad drove the hour and a half in the snow on the Thruway. It was a little scary, but Dad did a great job. When we got to the Rochester airport, our flight was delayed. We missed our connecting flight out of Atlanta, but luckily by the time we got to Atlanta, they had us on the next flight. We had a nice dinner with Bruce and Lisa in the Atlanta airport and then we flew into Dallas around 1130pm. Even with the delays, we did not hear a peep out of the girls the entire day of traveling. No crying. I really mean it when I say they are amazing travelers. Thanks to Marmee, Guy and Mycah for helping with Kiley on the flights. And a special thanks to Uncle Bruce for trading seats with me so that I didn't have to nurse Presley in between two men! Instead we got to sit in the back of the plane with Aunt Lisa!

We love you all soooo much and we miss you Grandpa. We know you were looking down on us and listening to all of our great stories we had to tell throughout the week and we know you kept us safe on our travels.