Burp Cloths

So I stole another brilliant idea from Jones Design Company...the burp cloth!

Let's be honest with each other, you can only make burp cloths so cute; monogram, ribbon, etc.

But these are seriously adorable!  So I tried my hand at one (my mom helped a tad since it's her sewing machine) and...

TA-DA!

All the good things about these burp cloths:

You can decide on the fabric you LOVE!

You don't have to use white backing if you don't want every little thing to show up.

You can make it as long or wide as you want.

You have one more reason to be ridiculously cute fabric!

(oh, wait...i think I already mentioned the fabric thing)

p.s. don't be surprised if you see Georgia's whole 1st birthday planned around this fabric!

Passing Notes

I love note cards.  I always think about writing people notes, but my hands never seem to follow through. My love, Anna, is the best about writing people notes...

Anyway, I have started to really love personalized gifts.  Let me rephrase that, I have started loving personalizing gifts myself!  Some other Christmas gifts I made were these personalized note cards.  I also did some that say "thanks" or "love".  But there are so many different ways to make these and I just adore the way they turned out!

Cute Leftovers

If you got a painted pot from me this Christmas, don't feel slighted!  I had to be thrifty, but I put lots of LOVE into it!  I had these clay pots left over from our wedding...2 1/2 years ago!  So I wanted to put them to good use!

Yay! Success (i think)! And I love that they look imperfect, too!

I'm Dreaming...

...of a White Christmas...

And we got one! I really couldn't believe it.  My dad is usually spot on with what the weather is going to do and he fully predicted there would be snow, almost down to the minute.  Yes, he's amazing like that.  And sure enough...there it came!

So, the two kids...I mean Dad and Jason, had to go outside and build a snowman the second there was enough snow on the ground!  Which is funny because you can still see some green in the background.

My sweet Daddy

And my sweet Hubs, making the best snowman in the world for his daughter!  The cool thing is, this was Jason's first snowman, too.  Charleston doesn't quite have the snow Habersham gets.

But we stayed warm inside

...then she started to stare daddy down while he made the snowman...

admiring their work

Now we could show Georgie the snow and her snowman!

Georgia cracks me up in this picture, she's so curious!

Warning: Christmas Morning

There are a LOT of pictures in this post...you can't say you weren't warned.  I mean it's the Bean's first Christmas!  We have to go overboard, right?!

If you read these posts in order, you know we went to my parent's beautiful home in good 'ol Habersham (my gosh, I love that place)! It was the most perfect Christmas I could have imagined!  Not because of the gifts (although those were great), but I feel like I have a new found love for the birth of Jesus now that I have my own little bundle.  {Enter emotional mommy talk here}

We started the morning with a beautiful Christmas tree...

...with lots of pretty presents...

...and a ridiculously gorgeous sunrise...

...then Georgie woke up (45 minutes late...somebody obviously didn't know Santa came) and enjoyed some snuggle time with uncle Marshal...

...THEN she saw what Santa brought...

...not to mention all the other presents for a little someone special...

..."for me?"...

   

..."dad, i'll be glad to help you open yours, too!"...

..."why am I in this tackle box...please tell me"...

...then we had to tickle her to death...

...shortly followed by her trying to eat my face off.

Then enough was enough, it was time to play!

Then Grandma and Uncle Brian came over...

and Grams, too!

   

And THEN we had a WHITE CHRISTMAS!!!  First one in 138 years!!!

Georgia says, "your welcome, world." hahahahaha

Christmas Eve

I'm going to try not to write a novel on each of these posts, so I'm taking a cue from sweet Juila and how she did her Christmas recap!

...But Christmas was AWESOME!

We got dressed up for our candle light service at church...

...struggled to take a family picture (since the rest of the family wasn't home yet)...

...a few more photo opps...

...fed her some dinner, before she could open her one Christmas present on Christmas Eve...

...started the tradition of one present, but it will always be Christmas p.j.s for the next morning (a cue I took from some friends of mine)...

...adored the tissue paper and box for a little while...

...then finally got the p.j.'s out with the 'mother hubbered' matching hat (hahahahah)...

...for my Baby's first Christmas!

And to all, a good night!