A Breath of Fresh Air

My favorite time of year each year is when my peonies bloom. I love cutting them and putting them on my dining room table, and especially love the sweet smell they give off. It also signals the end of the long, cold, dark winter when sickness seems to be ever lurking. I feel like it was even more true this winter - between the craziness of Christmas, the girls and I getting the flu the week after Christmas, me being confined to the sofa during the early stages of pregnancy, Chris traveling 2-3 night every week for work, and Mimi being in ICU for three weeks. Not to mention, this pregnancy has just been harder, not sure if its the fact that I'm still nauseous at 23 weeks, or the fact that Chris has been traveling so much (which we are hoping is about to change - he is going to be home ALL week next week!!), or if it just because life does not stop for the girls just because I do not feel well!  However, I feel like we are finally coming out of the fog and are so thankful for the beautiful weather outside!!

Here are some of the sweet memories of our household during the fog:

 Maddie's Chapel

Every Wednesday is Chapel Day for Miss Maddie. Each class puts on one chapel during the year, and the JK always does the Christmas Chapel. 

Maddie was the star of Bethlehem. And even had a speaking part! I was so proud of her. 

Emalyn with Carrie waiting for it to begin. 

 And after a long time coming....

Uncle Tee & Miss Caroline got engaged!!

 And all of the Christmas festivities began...

The McClure's Breakfast with Santa Christmas Eve morning. 

Bebe & Uncle Tee coming over Christmas morning. 

Enjoying their new Christmas presents!

Maddie with McKenna, her first American Girl Doll.

Can you tell Emalyn is excited? She literally leaped for joy. The "lay down stroller" from Pottery Barn Kids was the only thing she asked for for Christmas. 

After Christmas we made the trip down to Atlanta to see Chris' grandmother and his dad's side of the family. And while we were there, Mimi and Grand D took the girls to the American Girl Store. 

Celebrations

My sweet baby turned 3 - a post is coming from her birthday party!

And Bebe and Honey came to lunch at St Paul to celebrate Maddie's half birthday!

And this pretty much sums it up :)

They copy everything they see!

Pictures

So when Chris asked me what I wanted for Christmas this year, I knew they thing I had loved most last year was having pictures taken of the girls. But I wasn't quite sure where that was going to fit in to the budget this year - so I thought that was the perfect thing to be my gift. Its amazing how much they change in just a year

This was one of my favorites Zach took last year

And here are a few of my favorite pictures from this year:

 

 Maddie was being such a ham and loving every minute of it!

 This one is my favorite of Miss Maddie:

Emalyn was being shy and took her a little while to warm up.

 

 

Merry Christmas!

Where have the Camps been?

You would think with the girls being in school more this year I would be more on top of updating the blog, however I seems equate to more time in the car and less time at home to get things done! Here's a quick rundown of what has been going on in the Camp household

Halloween 

We went out to Brian and Sara's house the weekend before Halloween to see all of the Camp cousins. 

And then Halloween Day, Maddie got out of school half day, so we were able to run by and

see G & Tommypop

and then stop by the Bomars, a sweet couple who goes to our church

 And then walked down to our neighborhood Halloween Party

Emalyn & our next door neighbor Charles

We are so thankful that the Lee's have moved in next door to us!

Then it was time to start Trick or Treating!

Bebe and Honey came and found us as they trick or treating!

And Uncle Tee and Miss Caroline stopped by too!

The Mountains
The next weekend we went and met our 3 best couple friends from Atlanta in the North Georgia Mountains. This is the picture the dads texted us when the moms when out to breakfast. :)

The girls had so much fun playing together - and the Cahills just had another little girl last week - so the count is now up to 7 little girls!

And we roasted s'mores - the girls loved it!

 Birthdays

We have literally had 15 birthday parties from the end of October to the middle of November, which means I have been spending a lot of time in front of the monogramming machine. But it all has been really fun and a great way for me to continue to get to know the moms in Maddie's class better. 

Our old next door neighbor Hayes had his party at Cowboy Town 

In all of the birthday parties we have been to, this was our first one at Cowboy Town - the girls had so much fun!

Maddie got to feed the horse an apple (Emalyn would not dare!)

Maddie and some of her sweet friends from her class at one of the birthday parties!

Thanksgiving

Maddie and Charlotte at their Thanksgiving Feast


Maddie with her big buddy Elizabeth.

The kids table - Maddie made sure to bring her Mayflower centerpiece she made at school -she kept telling me Bebe asked her to bring it. So we walked down for Thanksgiving lunch with it in tow!

Loving on Bebe

Playdates

Miss Maddie had half days for parent teacher conference, so we were able to meet Sophie and Aida for a quick lunch and playing on the playground before we had to pick up Emalyn. They were our first playdate when we moved back to Nashville - the twins are 3 weeks younger than Maddie and moved to Nashville right about the same time that we did. 

Whew! Finally finished this blog - I started several weeks ago and in the craziness have not had a chance to finish up!