Happy Birthday Uncle Andrew!

Maggie Meets Santa!

This morning Mimi and I took Maggie to the Chick-fil-A on Pelham Road to decorate cookies with Santa. We had a blast decorating a gingerbread cookie and meeting Santa. Unfortunately, Maggie was a little overwhelmed and wasn't exactly hugging Santa. More or less she was trying to run away from him, as fast as she could!

However, she thoroughly enjoyed the cookie she made! We're headed to the Christmas Eve service at church this evening and then will be hunting for Christmas lights. We will be celebrating our family Christmas on Sunday when the rest of the family is in town. We're anxiously awaiting their arrival!

The best Christmas wishes for everyone from Maggie and Mommy!

Signed, Sealed and Hopefully Will Be Delivered...

Christmas cards are in, addressed and ready to go! I ordered them from the super-cute Pear Tree Greetings. So keep an eye out in your mail this week!!

UPDATE: My camera has been fixed!!! Thanks to my wonderful Dad who fixed it with a good old fashioned smacking...Seriously, he found several people on the internet who said they had had the same problem with their camera and hit it several times and it started working just fine again. Ta-da!

Maggie Must Have: First Juice!

Well, it certainly has been awhile since we've featured a Maggie Must Have, so this will most likely be our last one for 2009. Maggie's new must have is First Juice. I discovered this product, really out of desperation. Maggie and I were in Babies R Us one afternoon just browsing around and she ran out of juice. Well, if you have an infant, then you probably know that this can turn into somewhat of a catastrophe, so I quickly headed over to the food section. Here's the dilemna with juices: All juices have enormous amounts of sugar in them, so I always dilute them with water. See, we weren't headed home anytime soon, so I was going to have to buy water and juice! Coming down the juice aisle I spotted the First Juice section, so I strolled on over and picked one up. The fact that there is only 12 grams of sugar in the juice AND that Maggie loves the taste of them are not the only reasons I adore this company. The fascinating part about them is they come in sport-like, REUSABLE bottles! It's also organic and have fascinating flavors like, blueberry-purple carrot, which happens to be Maggie's favorite. (Go ahead and make fun of me for purchasing organic products for Maggie, most of my family does anyway) Another bonus if you write the company, the owner and founder, of the company will personally send you some coupons. So:

Low in Sugar: A+
Organic: A+
Reusable:A+
Customer Service:A+
Maggie Loves It (and it's healthy): Priceless!!

So take some time and visit the First Juice website and find a local retailer near you!!

The New Name...

As you can see we have finally chosen our new name...The Mommy Life. I hope you like the new name if you don't...oh well. My camera is broken and will cost almost $100 to fix :-( Maybe Santa will bring me a new one.

Holy Cow...It's Been Awhile!

Ciao, blog readers, it's been too long. Classes are finally over for the semester and I'm extremely thankful for the break.

Maggie is continuing to explore her world and is into EVERYTHING! We will occasionally find tupperware in strange places and her toys in even stranger places...like Charlie's food bowl. We had a wonderful Thanksgiving and we hope you did as well. We headed down to Florida to visit with Aunt Amy, Uncle Mike, and Cooper. We enjoyed several days of playing on the beach and lounging around the beautiful condo we were staying in. We also were able to visit Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo and Maggie even got to feed a giraffe...hopefully I can post the video soon! Unfortunately, Maggie caught a cold at the end was not in a happy mood for the last couple days. I think we're over the hump and hopefully it will be smooth, healthy sailing through the end of the year. We have a busy weekend coming up two Christmas parties and a cookie swap. Meanwhile, enjoy some pics from our Thanksgiving vacation!