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Monday, January 5, 2015

Lola’s First Christmas 2014

Finally, Lola’s Christmas blog and an official-

“ Merry Christmas from The Minnicks crew!”

DSC04595 - CopyAlex and I were so thankful for our biggest Christmas present of all this year a side from Lola- getting two weeks off to spend at home with her!

Unfortunately this also meant telling Mrs. Charisa good bye… her due date for her little boy is Jan. 7th and our new nanny starts when we go back to work Jan. 5th. It was honestly one of the hardest things i have had to do since Lola was born… the first hardest thing was leaving her with Charisa at 3 months and 7 short months later it’s telling her good bye…. crazy right!?

Lola and Charisa made this for me on their last day together and i will forever cherish it!

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I could not have asked for a better nanny and care taker for Lola while she was a baby, Charisa was so patient with her, so respectful of me and so cautious with every single detail to how much and when she ate, slept and finding the tiniest things on the floor that needed to be picked up for fear Lola would put it in her mouth! Sometimes I felt i needed to live up to her standard because she was SO good with Lola!

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Because of her I was able to do the two things i had always dreamed of doing since i was a little girl… I wanted to be a counselor and I wanted to be a mommy….

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Charisa essentially gave me both… I had FULLY planned to quit in a heartbeat if things hadn’t gone smoothly! They couldn’t have gone smoother…..we will NEVER forget her and I love being able to tell Lola stories about her and Charisa's time together… it was the sweetest!

We can’t wait to meet little Ethan and hooray for Christmas break!!

20141216_205256Between all the chaos of Christmas shopping, running around and re-modeling our entire downstairs essentially, Lou and I decided to have our own baby sitter free date night at home!  20141216_214137

We are super addicted to these home made pizzas and it’s a super easy date night go-to for us now! 20141216_214154

  We spent a couple days at home tying up loose ends before heading south for Christmas!  We didn’t even leave and get on the road until about 9:20 at night and this little girl was no help… we skipped our afternoon nap to finish up errands and she could not have been more “excited” about going home!1419375019569  I had nothing packed, she was ALL over the place, I was sorting through presents that come home and presents that stay here  and Lola was climbing the stairs, tearing up the pantry and broke a ceramic platter on the floor inches away from her foot.

We hit the road and Lola passed out!

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The next morning we were back at it in full Christmas chaos!    Thank God for help when we go home- she is a handful!

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The festivities were in full affect the next morning- Merry Christmas Eve with homemade ravioli just like mommom made it and we had our doctor performing surgery on these things~!

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There was baking to be done and craft to be made but some littel girl went MIA along with her daddy…..

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They came back like this…. good thing they clean up nicely!  We stamped the girls feet stealing Mrs. Charisas Mistle toe idea and headed to Hilton Head for Bob and Jane’s Christmas Eve party! DSCN3619

Lola was so excited to see all the pretty colors… AKA things to get into! I remember years ago thinking “God help me when i have to bring a baby to this house”- don’t touch that, don’t touch that, don’t touch that!

Thankfully Lola was quickly taken from me and swooped up by everyone else!

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Jammy and I decided to hurry up and do present before most of the other guest arrived since we were all on Lolas time and wouldn’t be staying as long as we usually do on Christmas Eve….

DSC04299Lucky little  Lola scored a million dollars this year!  DSC04318 DSC04305DSC04322I think we took about ten pictures of these three and this was our best one….  

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Then my second round of baby sitter arrived! Lolas cousins- Julian and Avery!DSC04340DSC04338   Lola turned the party into a pajama party and at this point we were all pretty jealous!DSC04345 DSC04354

Speaking of jealous… Andrew loves to steal our Daddy Lou! DSC04360  At Jammy request.. all her grandbabies!DSC04368

We headed home to put Lola to bed and wrap more presents… this was our first time playing “santa”!

DSCN3617  Well…. at least i played Santa…. I lost the boys along the way, somewhere around 2 am!

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The next morning Lola was pretty much clueless to the  mounds of toys set out for her! Even her unwrapped car I put her next to she didn’t even look twice at!

Stimulus overload much!DSC04376 DSC04377  The girl knows what she wants these days…. her mama! I can’t lie and say I mind,  THANK YOU JESUS!

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All I have to say is THANK YUOU LORD for Billy and Angela… they got Tucker and Milly 3 new babies this year and if there was ever a year to go overboard for them, this was it!

Naturally I forgot and left their presents at home in Atlanta.. mom of the year i know! DSC04410

I told Billy he had to let me pretend i got the new babies for them or Mildred would use it against me for years and years!   DSC04488DSC04486

DSC04491 DSC04494 DSC04516 Merry Christmas all, Love Lola! DSC04419 DSC04428 DSC04435 DSC04438 DSC04441 DSC04462 DSC04477 DSC04479 DSC04482DSC04527 - Copy

Christmas is so magical and with Tuck it’s always so sweet, he typically stays out of the way but he always knows when it’s Christmas- he is right on top of Alex and I and sweet and lovey all day! DSC04542 - Copy DSC04547 - Copy

Lola loved he rnew chair from Aunt Taytay, she prefers standing on it over sitting in it so when i sat her in it she did this with her foot, every time. Not sure why but to each their own!  DSC04572 - CopyThen I marched everyone outside with a bribe- pics with Lola!!  DSC04579 - CopyAh hem. priorities people… Milly had to test out the lighting.  DSC04598 - Copy DSC04601 - Copy DSC04602 - CopyThen Lou and I decided to start making some money off of our child- $5 for a picture with Lola ;)    DSC04621 - Copy DSC04626 - Copy DSC04640 - Copy

Want to know our behind the scenes magic??? DSC04631 - Copy

The little penguin on the piano Lou is holding sings and plays music- One, two, three, turn it on!    DSC04670 - CopyIMG_0373  DSC04681 - Copy DSC04688 DSC04689 DSC04693 DSC04695

IMG_0403IMG_0387  Little did we know she would be walking on her own in less than a week!IMG_0393Then daddy said the N word… “No”…. i know he is the worst Lola.. mommy would have let you eat that leaf you just remember that! ;)   IMG_0407We’re on her good side!  IMG_0421DSC04696

Are these two not the cutest- no offense Aunt Tay Tay but sometimes i think Lola and TJ are just two peas in a pod! IMG959217-1

They have come SUCH a long way and Alex and I could not be more pleased or proud of them both in their own ways!!

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Back inside for presents round two, happy hour cranberry punch and Christmas dinner!DSC04701

I thought this picture was just priceless , I’m assuming I took something from her or out of her mouth that she more than likely wasn’t supposed to have….DSC04713

Paci’s fix EVERYTHING!

On to presents round two! DSC04715 DSC04727 DSC0473020141225_194407Who knew the banana toothbrush would be such a good teething toy!?!?  20141225_194402

Happy hour and a concoction by your truly…

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Mom has successfully done it again- catered to us all and made a delicious Christmas dinner!     20141225_183130 20141225_183225

Notice the little beggar and the huge mess we still have to clean up behind the little beggar! 20141225_185156

Lola actually sat in her chair so content while we ate… she tried homemade macaroni for the first time and LOVED it! 20141225_185548 20141225_185555  Oh the days when we used to sit and talk for hours after dinner.. now it’s a race to leave the table and find a new activity for Lola!20141225_194926 20141225_194928 1419525103769   Well we made it! Put our baby to bed after our first Christmas as a family of three! WHEW!1419543861003  The next day was essentially Christmas round two since Tara left all my shipped presents at her house- errrr!!!!

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That's okay though it was a good excuse for an El Som date on Lola and a chance to see our Ney ney since we wouldn’t get to see her the rest of the week! 20141226_151504 20141226_151516  Lola learned all about selfies with the selfie queen!20141226_151649 20141226_151702 20141226_151705

Then we headed home for a nap and golf cart rides- Lolas favorite!

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Daddy missed out on our first golf cart ride since he was completing his moms honey do list so we took him and Lolas  Grama Karen on a round two trip when they came over! 

Lola was napping so TJ got to be mommy's lap dog and he couldn’t be more happy!20141227_113936 20141227_114317 20141227_114345 20141227_114349 20141227_114449 20141227_114508 20141227_114742 20141227_114927 20141227_120624  20141227_120852 20141227_120942

Lola woke up a bit pissed she had missed all the fun so she was ready to make up for it- she was SO cuddly our last day home and got to spend the day with both grandparents! 20141227_130342 20141227_161446 20141227_161449 20141227_161526 20141227_161532 20141227_161913

So much Lola loving and being passed around but thankfully she saved the best for last! Just before we packed up to hit the road and leave Alex’s moms house someone got super cuddly and even let me hold her inward on the bjorn which she NEVER does….   Snapchat-6068673534805723446  I was in heaven! It was all the Christmas present i needed!

Thank you sweet girl, you will forever and always be the best present  I ever received!

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