The Culpepper Family: December 2012

Don't get too excited folks, this is not the highly talked about 8 & 9 month update. I haven't been able to squeeze in a 9 month photo session just yet so I feel like my work would be subpar & that's just not the kind of blog I run.

We have been enjoying our little girl's first holiday season so much! Unfortunately that does not include Thanksgiving...poor boo is going to look back on the photos & be like, "what the heck mom & dad?!" I worked Thanksgiving...and all the days around it. So we just skipped it. Chase was playing daddy daycare that day & planned to go over to my family's to enjoy some food, football, and a game he really enjoys, "pass the baby around". So up he got on a ridiculously warm Thanksgiving morning. He woke up early to make his car look all sexy like & what does his car pay him back with...a dead battery. After trying all day to fix it himself between feeding times, play times, & nap times it was 5pm and poor baby daddy had no turkey, no gravy, no stuffing, nada. So needless to say there were no cute pictures taken with Alyssa in her pretty yellow dress & tights mommy laid out, no photos of her in the background being kissed on by family while Chase yelled at the football game, no videos of my Uncle Jim reaching new octaves while speaking to baby girl. It was just not the Thanksgiving to remember, but I'm sure it will be one Chase won't forget. My mom did pack us up a proper Thanksgiving meal & she rescued hubs just before I arrived home from work so that he could eat with both hands free.

Here is the photo I got from Chase of Alyssa playing in the backseat of his car while he attempted to fix it. He appropriately captioned the photo with..."I think she was trying to call a mechanic for me".

"Um, yeah hi...my dad needs some turkey & stuffing
so I'm going to need a mechanic here stat!"

This picture makes me laugh because at this point we didn't even know she knew to hold phone looking objects up to her ear. Now anytime she finds my phone she smiles wide and holds it up so that I hold it to my ear or her's and say, "hello? it's for you". That game gets the biggest grins, well for a minute or two, until she decides she'd rather taste the phone.

Anyway, back to Christmas cheer. Here are some snaps from getting our tree together & some from tonight while we did Christmas with Yia Yia & Boomer. They'll be leaving us this holiday season to spend time in Oklahoma so we stole an hour this afternoon to eat some adorably yummy cupcakes & do a little showering of gifts for baby girl. One of the gifts was a bit out of control (*cough*Kevin*cough, cough*). Let's just say if I could put a scowling emoticon I would. So instead just invision me scowling in your direction Boom Boom. I've decided we'll name him Bearington Boo Boo, Beary for short, after his creator Kevin, Boomer-Boom Boom- Boo Boo Bridges. You're welcome. Who knows where Beary will live, we'll probably have to get him his own room he's so big.

She got the special task of helping daddy put on the star

This picture makes me smile :)

Christmas with Yia Yia & Boomer wrapped up in a box...& in an hour!

"Oh, you don't taste the gifts first?"

Introducing...Bearington Boo Boo the bear.
Alyssa's best bud/Mommy's nemesis

"Seiously, is it too much to ask for the bags to be flavored?"

Minnie Mouse!

Yia Yia's present. Chase & I wrapped it with love just for her ;)

Merry Christmas!

"So Alyssa, now that you've got your headband, what are you gonna do now...??"

Boo Boo, Alyssa Pants, & Yogi
They love their nick names as much as I love saying them

My happy family
(PS- can you tell she's a chatter box? Too busy chatting to say cheese)

"Come on Beary let's play!"

Poor Bearington, I see lots of tea parties in his future. Hopefully his hat comes off because I'm not sure his winter look will go with the tutu & tiara he'll be wearing.

I am unbelievably sorry for the slacking that has been going on. Please know that it is all Bloggers fault. I logged on shortly after my last post & found out that I was over my storage limit for posting photos and I haven't been back since! Thanks to my husband who wears his smartie pants daily I now know how to post pictures without taking up a ton of space. So here is the weakest return post ever. I give to you...photos of happenings lately & a promise to return with a much better post for baby boo's 8 & 9 month update! Until then, enjoy the cuteness that is our lil room mate ;)