carrying on

When B. was growing up, his mom made his advent calendar by stringing candy onto numbered ribbons and placing them in his stocking.  Christmas Eve was always a small toy.  Apparently, as b. got older, his mom said it was too much work to attach numbers to the end of each ribbon so she stopped adding them; there was then just ribbons and candy.  According to B. it was better that way.  Well, since this was our first year, we decided to do the labels.  By we, I mean that A. and I started as a team and she finished about 4 or 5 and then got bored so I finished the rest.  But, the tradition was started.  Now, someone just remind me not to have a fire in the fireplace so we don't have melted chocolate all over the stockings!

adding candy to ribbons

we had to use reese's cups and pink, green, and blue ribbon.  Her only requests

the best part, dumping the candy into the stocking

adding stickers onto the number tags

the finished product

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the polygamist

My little one is still in a marriage phase.  She has been talking about marrying daddy for weeks now.  So, today, she dressed up, made her bouquet, and surprised Daddy when he got home from work.  She could NOT wait until he got home.  Finally, he got here and she ran upstairs to get her beautiful white dress (courtesy of my 5th grade teacher, Ms. Moore) before he knew what was happening.  Here is my little bride surprising her daddy 

Her fantastic daddy then went upstairs and got on his groom clothes.  Here is their ceremony

She then wanted a party.  It was a movie party where they toasted and then watched the movie of the wedding on the computer.  Brandon had red wine, A. had grape juice.  A. didn't spill on her white dress.  B. spilled on his suit.  You can't take him anywhere, even his wedding to a 3 year old.