Ugly Christmas Sweater's

This holiday season, Steve and I attended 2 ugly Christmas sweater parties. The first one was with our life group and we got together for a little gift exchange (something you no longer want) and lots of sweet treats! As you can see by the amazing cake pops a friend made! Then last night we were invited to another party and we had lots of fun. The couple is a photographer and so we had fun taking a couple of funny pictures with my awesome sweater from the thrift store!

Feliz Navidad!

Last night was Danika's Christmas dance recital. She has been in Highland dancing for a couple of months now and they have been practicing for this night. The day was a bit of a whirlwind as she also had her school Christmas recital(pictures and video to come!), and in the flurry of getting out the door for dance I grabbed Danika's dance shoes... which ended up being one of Danika's and one of Adessa's! I felt horrible about it, but thankfully they were able to switch between dances! My girl looked so beautiful, and we were so proud of her! Even if the recital cost $30 to see and she only danced for 2 minutes!!! ;)

Danika's best buddies Sydney and Lize

All the costumes of the night (there were hundreds!) were made by the amazing mom and daughter team at the dance school

My little princess

Her first dance bun... and my first time! LOTS of gel, hairspray, a hairnet and bobby pins!

They weren't quite in step with one another....

Notice Danika's tongue... apparently it "helps to keep her balance!"

The girl on the left was the oldest and has been dancing the longest and the girls kept checking her out to see what she was doing! It was pretty cute!

Good job my little dancing princess, you looked so beautiful out there and we were so proud of you!

Family Photo Shoot

We finally got out to do some family photos with a good friend of mine. She is a very talented lady and you can find her work here. We planned it extremely last minute as we wanted pictures before Christmas, but the weather had been very wet, so when it became dry we took the opportunity to get outside. I really had wanted to plan some outfits and coordinate a bit better... but for on the fly they turned out wonderfully! Unfortunately as we were leaving out the door a friend called Steve with an emergency that she needed help with, so our photographer took the girls and I out, and then we met up with Steve later. By that time however the girls were completely frozen and were no longer wanting to smile!!!

Thanks Kimmy!!! I love them all!!!