Take A Trip Tuesday 06/11/13

So, yesterday was "Take A Trip Tuesday" and we went to the House Of Java. We were accompanied by my mom, younger sister and younger brother. While the adults enjoyed chatting and coffee, the little's enjoyed playing in the BIG play area. 

She played and played and made some friends too.......

She also ran Aunt Toto ragged LOL..........Poor Tori, always a good sport............they LOVE each other.

 I enjoyed chatting with Gabe and mom...oh and my mother in law who called in the middle telling me about her Take A Trip Tuesday and let me tell you.....that's a good story for another time LOL...

 All in all it was a good day and I really should get Mia out more because she just LOVES it! Don't know where we'll be going next Tuesday but I hope to take a trip to the zoo soon. 

Nikki~
 

Make Something Monday 06/10/13

So Monday was "Make something Monday" and we chose to do some Christmas crafts.......in this house Christmas and Halloween are always being prepared for LOL. 

So we decided on a Christmas Ornament for GG Nana's "Grandchildren Christmas Tree" and a Christmas puzzle to frame in Mia's room for decor when December comes!

So we decided to start with the Ornament first. Mia was really excited because she loves to paint and as you can see in this picture......she loves to paint herself..

....LOL. We decided to use Blue and Yellow. I don't know what design we were going for really she just went to town, so I figured it was her first piece of art and it would be accepted no matter what! Ha

Here she is deciding on whether to add or keep it the way it is...............

And apparently that requires sniffing it too......LOL

This is her finished product.....GG Nana, we will be sending this to you so you can put it away for the tree this year! 

And then there's the puzzle we did. We glued it and are going to frame it and put it away until Christmas. She has puzzle's of all the characters and we are going to use them in her room for decor at Christmas. This is the first one we've put together though. 

Well it was a successful first "Make Something Monday" and we can't wait till next Monday. Next I will be posting out "Take A Trip Tuesday" so STAY TUNED...................

Nikki~




 
 

Summer Schedule

So, tomorrow starts mine and Mia's summer schedule. Monday thru Friday we will do a fun summer activity together until the end of August. I actually got this idea from pinterest and I just loved it. Credits to the blogger I got it from. You can visit her site here >click here .

It goes like this..........
M   Make Something Monday
(Try a new recipe, craft, build something)
T   Take a Trip Tuesday
(movie, museum, zoo, park, outing)
W   Wet 'N' Wild Wednesday
(Swimming, Water park, Splash pad)
Th  Thinking Thursday
(library, research wondering list, science experiments, learning websites)
F    Fresh and Fun Fridays
(do one of the fun things we've found on pinterest).

We'll be starting our first "Make Something Monday" tomorrow. Hope you follow along with us and enjoy. I'm excited............... 

Nikki~ 

Christmas 2012

We had an awesome Christmas here at the Flynn home. First on Christmas Eve we got to go down to South Alabama and visit my Nanna and Papa Chuck and the rest of my dad's side of the family. Then we woke up on Christmas morning and opened our gifts and had Cinnamon Rolls for breakfast. We later went to my parents house and had lunch, a devotional, and opened gifts and after we came home and had Christmas dinner and a tornado warning......Christmas the Alabama way...........we spent 15 minutes in the bathroom.....:/

 Everyone is safe and no damage was done(Thank God).......The next day we had an after Christmas celebration at my other grandparents house and my moms side because my cousin, Jase, came down from North Carolina where he lives to visit us. We had a blast and I love family time so much!

Uncle Jase & Mia

Me & my Nanna

Our Christmas tree on Christmas morning

My Maw & Poppi's Tree

Me & my cousin Jada

My little diva

Ready to open gifts

My "strange" husband

Christmas is finally here.......again

 

Christmas.........the most wonderful time of the year they say and I think I believe them. For some reason there's this warm and fuzzy feeling I get everytime Christmas comes around! I love the shopping and buying gifts for people, I love baking all the themed Christmas treats, I'm obsessed with ornaments, Christmas music makes me happy, I love sitting by the fire (In our case the heater inside the fire place lol) watching Christmas movies or reading Christmas books to my little Angel, but most of all I love sitting back and thinking of all the blessings I recieved the past year. All the things God has given to me! All the things I didn't and still don't deserve. God is an awesome God and I'm not worthy of his love or salvation, but he gives it to me anyways. It's really easy for us to forget about the reason for this season(especially me). When you think about it, this is TRULY the most wonderful holiday of the year because this is the holiday where our God sent his one and only son to earth to live and walk amongst us and to offer up his life as the atonement for all sin! What better gift is there!!!!! I can't think of one! Let us not forget WHO this holiday is about and glorify in every moment of it!

In the words of Veggie Tales.......
"I can love because God loves me, I can give because God gave. Jesus love is why I'm smiling, why I'm giving everyday"

Thanksgiving 2012

We had a great Thanksgiving day hosted by the Johnson's and we managed to get some family photo's for our Christmas card. YAY!

We had some yummy food and Mia really enjoyed playing in the leaves!!!!

WE had some great family time and now I CANT WAIT TILL CHRISTMAS!

Someone very special turned 1

My little girl turned 1 on the 4th of this month, but we celebrated her first year of life on the 8th so we could be surrounded by loved ones! I just wanted to share a few pictures and things we did! For those who couldn't be there and for those who could but wont to look back on the day. Enjoy!

 Aunt Ange started the day out taking some cute pictures of the little princess! She loves the balloons, just like her mommy did at her age.

The room was very festive and took ALL day to finish! It was fun though and Mia loved it the first time she saw it. I wish I could've gotten a picture of her expression when she first saw the finished room! 

Mia's little birthday outfit was so precious on her. We had to get the pictures and then take the hat off though because she pulled the string on the bottom and popped herself with it and just cried and cried. Poor thing :( 

 We had some yummy food and Mia really enjoyed her cake once she got over the whole "why are you people staring at me while I'm eating" thing LOL

We played "Pin the nose on Larry", played with friends, Opened presents( the new Cozy Coupe was a good idea!) and busted the pinata open. The kids enjoyed themselves and so did I.

 All in all it was a good day! And of course our family gatherings can never end without a healthy game of football!! ;)