enjoying some down time 

until next year!!  hope you are too! 

we've been enjoying lot's of time at home this week together doing a little of this & a little of that.  love being at home, especially this time of year.  we've done a lot of baking, cooking & projects since last friday & have enjoyed every minute of it.  isabella got a huge (bigger than her) savannah dollhouse from santa & we've been enjoying playing with her new barbies in it.  in the middle of all of the festivities, the 'pella' guys came & installed all new windows & doors in our house & boy does it feel nice & cozy in here!  

here is a bit of our projects from this afternoon.  bella loves to bake & i'm so thankful for that!  loving our family time.  happy holidays! 

merry christmas - from the nittos

~ oh christmas tree ~

our tree this year . . .   

 

~christmas happenings~

two weekends ago we went to the annual tree lighting in our town.  they've been doing it for a long time & this year was their largest turnout.  it was a super chilly night, but still loads of fun.  the local school choirs sang christmas songs & santa showed up, with live reindeer pulling his sleigh.  we had hoped to let isabella sit on santa's lap, but it was such a big crowd, we couldn't even get near enough to see him.  she did get to see santa a couple days later for a private 15 min photo shoot, so she was able to bend his ear then.   

NDA Birthday shindig

i've been so preoccupied getting ready for the holidays, that i haven't had a whole lot of time to bring our happenings up to date.  we recently celebrated our angel's 4th birthday!  we started the day with a slow morning, watching olivia in bed.  i took the day off to spend the afternoon with her.  i dropped by her school just after their lunch, to be the 'mystery reader' & bring in cupcakes.  i took her home early so us girls could get our nails done.  she chose lilac with sparkles, of course!  happy birthday sweet girl!! 

do you think she had a good birthday??

she couldn't hide it if she tried. . .   

(don't pay any attention to the fact that our kitchen furniture is still in our dinning room, since our floor is still not finished)