Macy Claire and Rylee's Christening

This holiday season we had a very special weekend with Macy Claire and both of our families were there to celebrate with us. Our sweet little Macy Claire and her cousin Rylee were Christened at their great grandmother's (Gigi's) church in Poplarville, MS. The service was held at First United Methodist Church and was so beautiful. Scott and I are so blessed to have such a close and wonderful family. His grandmother put in so much time and effort to prepare for the special day. She organized the Christening at the church with the pastor's, had beautiful flowers placed in the girls honor, in the sanctuary, and hosted a brunch for over 20 people after the service. I cannot thank her enough for all of the hard work she put in to making the day such a success. I was so excited to have so many family members and friends travel to share this special day with us. I know Macy Claire will look back at the pictures, cards, and gifts and know that she is loved so very much.

As I was documenting this special day in her baby book I took special care to explain that this Christening is a symbol and promise to God that we will raise her in a Chriatian home and that it will be her decision one day to accept our Lord as her Savior. I am so glad we were able to do this around Christmas as we celebrate our Father's birthday!

      Macy Claire with my sweet Daddy!

Macy Claire with her Mimi (Scott's mom)

Macy Claire with her Witty (Scott's sister) and Mimi

Macy Claire and GrandMommy (my      mom) at the brunch

Macy Claire loves her Jenkie (my sister Jennifer)

Happy Thansgiving!

Poor Thanksgiving. I feel like the world is trying to jump straight from Halloween to Christmas and this year I have more to be thankful for that ever before. Sometimes I still look at Macy Claire and cannot believe how lucky we are to have been blessed with such a precious gift. I thank the Lord every day for allowing us to be the parents of such a sweet, beautiful, healthy baby girl. She has brought so much joy and happiness in just 6 short months. I am in awe of what excitement the future holds!

This year for Thanksgiving we went to Poplarville to Scott's Grandmother's house. The Morris family is chocked full of AWESOME cooks! Everything was so delicious! Macy Claire tried her first bite of table food and loved it! Sweet Potatoes are her absolute favorite and she was very excited to dive head first in to a plate of Sweet Potato Casserole.

This was the first year that his entire family has been able to celebrate together in quite a few years. Scott's brother Matt and his family have moved from NOLA to Hattiesburg to manage and be the head honcho Chef at Conestoga Steak House and having them so close has been so much fun! Conestoga was closed on Thanksgiving and so he was able to celebrate with us for the first time since I have been in the Morris clan.

Macy Claire's MiMi is the most talented seamstress and made the girls matching dresses for Thanksgiving. I wouldn't even begin to know how to tell you how to turn on a sewing machine and she makes the gorgeous dresses! We are so lucky :)

 Our beautiful girls in their beautiful dresses that MiMi made for them! On the left Rylee (15 months) and  right Macy Claire (6 months)

Little Angels!

  Matt, Tabitha, and Rylee. Rylee was our official photographer for the day.

    Our first Thanksgiving as a family of 3!

                                                   

 Scott's Great Aunt Jean, Nannie, and Pawpaw with the baby girls. I think they were about done taking pictures at this point.

Macy Claire with her Great Great Aunt Jean, Gigi, and Pawpaw

I mean could our girls and these dresses be any prettier?!

Rylee warmed up to her Uncle Scott and let us take a picture with her. We love that sweet baby.

Matt, Rylee, and Tabitha in front of Nannie's gorgeous home.

Here's a good shot of the dresses Mimi made for the girls.

 

I love the look on Macy Claire's face in this picture. I forgot her mega bow... Poor baby :)

Rylee showing Macy Claire how to crawl. Sweet girls have so much fun playing together!

 

6 months old!

It is so hard to believe that Macy Claire is already 6 months old! Time really does fly by! Macy Claire is sitting up by herself, has 2 adorable little teeth, loves to laugh and feed herself, and we think she is going to start crawling any day now.

We are so excited about starting the holiday season as a family of 3. We decided to go ahead and put up our Christmas tree because we are going to be on the go then next few weeks. Macy Claire loves looking at the lights! I know this will be the last year we can use our glass ornaments for a while :)

Christmas Pictures and 5 month pics

It's almost "the most wonderful time of year" and time to get in the holiday spirit! I wanted to have some family pictures done for our first Christmas card as a family of 3. Sessions fill up FAST, but luckily I was able to schedule a session with the Merry Mason Photography for late October. The day before our pictures something "blew up" at Sak's and Scott was not able to leave work and join us for the session. We are going to try to get one of us as a group soon though. Even though we were so sad Scott couldn't be there with us the pictures turned out great! I can't wait to teach Macy Claire about what Christmas is really about and start some fun traditions for our little family. Here's a sneak peek at some of the great pictures Kristen Mason was able to capture.

Who can believe how fast these past 5 months have gone by??? I sure can't! Our sweet girl has cut her first tooth and is working on sitting up by herself! Before we know it she'll be walking and talking. I am so thankful for this precious baby girl. Sometimes it's still hard to believe that she's ours. She has the sweetest personality and brings such joy to our lives!

My First Halloween and the Pumpkin Patch

We had our first "big" holiday as a family last week and had the best time! For Halloween we decided to dress up as a family. Macy Claire's genius Witty (Whitney) helped us come up with the idea to dress up as Peter Pan, Wendy, and Tinkerbell. I thought finding a blue nightgown to be Wendy would be SO easy! WRONG! It took forever to find something that would work, but it was so worth it. We easily found costumes for Scott and Macy Claire and they were precious.

The Friday before Halloween we went to our Supper Clubs Halloween party and had a great time with our friends. Macy Claire and Everett slept like little angels and let the big kids have some fun.We didn't get any pictures of the 3 of us that night because our sweet girl goes to bed so early (NOT complaining. We are so lucky to have such a great sleeper). Our hosts, Austin and Lauren Brown,  prepared the most delicious Taco Soup, great snacks, spooky music, and a great game of charades. We have so enjoyed being a part of such a wonderful Supper Club the last few years. We look forward to it every month.

Halloween night was forcasted to be a wash out so our neighborhood decided to Trick or Treat a night early. We decided she was still a little to small to enjoy Trick or Treating, but she did enjoy looking at all the children that came to the door. We had more Trick or Treaters this year than we ever have before. I have to say my favorite costume was a set of triplets dressed as Dorothy, Tin Man, and the Lion.

We also had our first visit to the Pumpkin Patch and had such a great time with our friends Keith and Marianna and sweet Everett. There were all kinds of animals, a corn maze, hay ride, and so much more. We didn't get a chance to go on the hay ride this year. It was an hour long and we didn't think our little ones would be able to handle a whole hour. We walked them around and showed them the animals and the babies both got there first pumpkin! I know that when we go back next year the kids are going to love all of the activities!