christmas party/buckles/football?

pregnancy insomnia had me up at 5:30 this morning. forgive me if this post has no rhyme or reason to it. christmas party at emily's
it's a SCANNER isabella, not a camera!
(she was very excited about her new cash register from grandpa chuck)just trying out some sweet glassesthis is how she spends a good portion of her days while i'm working.

we went to the seahawks game on sunday

ho ho ho

we went to see santa this afternoon. we've been prepping isabella by showing her the picture of her sitting on santa's lap from last year and telling her that she'll sit on his lap, look at the camera, and say "cheese." we were really excited to see how she'd react. the way this santa visit works is that you wait in line outside and when its your turn you go into the cottage and sit right down. my point is: your kid doesn't get much of a chance to warm up to santa. we pretty much had to put her on his lap within 30 seconds of her seeing him. so, as i'm walking closer to him i realize that this santa is MASSIVE. i mean, he was just a large man. so when i set her down and took a few steps back, its no wonder she made the face she did. but, we think its hilarious and so cute! waiting in line to see santa!more waiting

(we waited a little over an hour. we took turns taking her into different stores to warm her up. it was a cooooold day).

she didn't cry. she just made this face at first and then just stared at the photographer.
a close up of her face

(we don't have a scanner, so i just took a picture of our picture-sorry for the poor quality)

she wouldn't smile or anything. just stared, frozen like this. i love how she's holding her hands. what a sweet little girl.

the latest

isabella and i went to john, molly, and vienna's last weekend! and in true molly/hillary form, we have NO PICTURES OF OUR GIRLS TOGETHER! what the heck were we thinking?!

baby vienna is seriously the most beautiful baby ever. and she is so happy and content (even when she got a flu bug and was throwing up...she still smiled in between gagging...poor baby). it was my first time visiting now that we both have little girls and it was definitely a little different than usual. ever since we got out of college we've been traveling back and forth every few months to shop and eat out at restaurants every day. not so easy with two little ones on different schedules! i guess this is what friendships do: grow and change with time. but honestly, this trip was the best one yet becuase i'm telling you: vienna is the cutest little baby girl you've ever seen! oh, i just love her! thank you molly (and john. but who am i kidding, he doesn't read blogs!) for being such an amazing hostess. love you!i just like this picture because its the first time i was able to put isabella in her uggs with no leggings/baby legs, and i thought she looked so cute!
check out her nose. the day before we left she was running around outside anna's school and fell and hit her head. i heard her head hit (oh my goodness is that just the worst sound ever?!) and went running. it was bloody and she got a bloody nose too. she was crying and i know i'm supposed to be all calm and make her feel better, but with these pregnancy hormones i just lost it. i think i cried harder than her. as it turns out, she's fine. the scratch on her nose is almost completely gone this week. (thank you for protecting her, Lord).
also, isn't molly's nursery chair (the one she's sitting on) the cutest ever?when mike picked us up, we went straight to the tree farm!
(and by 'tree farm' i mean: our church parking lot where our friend is selling trees!)

checking out the christmas trees.

this year i decided to leave off all of our colorful ornaments and just put up our silver/sparkly ones. (there are just a couple at the bottom that are too sentimental to leave off). we also put almost all of them at the top out of isabella's reach...so the top half of our tree is really beautiful. :)

thankfully, she really doesn't touch the tree...much. she just needs a gentle reminder every now and then that its just for looking at. and then she leans her face in so that its almost touching the tree to get a good look. (not sure what this face is about, but she was proud to stand in front of the tree this morning, so i thought it was cute).

the ornament she's allowed to touch. estelle the owl.

out shopping with me today.

just a video of her "talking" and counting.