It's my birthday!

It's my birthday!

Ok, actually yesterday was my birthday,

but I was too busy partying it up for my big 3-5 to blog.

My girls and hubby brought me

breakfast in bed with homemade cards

before church.

PRECIOUS!

After Church we headed over to my mom's home

for my birthday party.

I have 5 sisters and to this day

my mom still has a birthday party

for each and everyone of us

every year.

I mean she even had pink balloons

on the mailbox.

I have the BEST family in the WORLD!

.

I consider my friends and family the best gift I could ask for.

Thanks to everyone who made me feel

 soooooo SPECIAL on my 35th birthday.

Mogie's 5th birthday party....

Mogie's 5th birthday party.

A vintage puppy dog theme....

This post has LOADS of pictures.

I just could not narrow down which ones to post.

We had a milk and cookies bar.

All of the different flavors of cookies were served on different plates,

and each plate was guarded by a different puppy figurine.

 The plates and napkins were set up

in a vintage child's hat box with pups on it.

The milk was served in

"milk bottles"

with "Got Mogie Milk" labels

 We made customized necklaces

and bracelets.

 and drew on vintage coloring pages

that I printed out on heavy paper stock.

 played some mean rounds of

bean bag toss.

And pin-the-tail on the puppy.

Not sure how I missed taking pictures of that.

 The favors were a box of

Cracker Jacks

with a label that read,

"I am so dog-gone glad you came to my party.  Love Mogie"

 Vintage puppies were scattered every where.

 Almost every gift was of a dog of some sort. 

Everyone knew how much she loves dogs.

It's an official party when

someone hits the floor.

Thanks to everyone that came and helped make it such a special day for Mogie.

It is hard to believe that she is 5!

My mom and dad....

As I was putting away Christmas for the year,

I came across my mom and dad's Christmas card.

So, I thought I would share them with you.

They are the absolute greatest people in the whole wide world.

I am so blessed to call them mine.

Just look at their Christmas card this year!

Last year, their Christmas card was a picture of them on

an elephant from when they were in Africa.

They may be hams for the camera.

{wonder where I got it?}

They are so adventurous and still in love.

I just adore them, and

I just had to share them with you.  Hope your 2012 is off to a good start!

The girl's trip to see Santa....

We went to see Santa on Christmas Eve.....

apparently Santa goes back to the work shop

on the 23rd of December,
not the 24th.

So, this will always be known as

the year we missed seeing Santa.

However, we crossed the roped off area

and sat in Santa's chair anyway,
which as it turns out was good enough.

You can see how thrilled Katie is to be there....

this is the picture taken after I said,

"The sooner you give me a good picture,

the sooner we are out of here."

 Mogie had no problem with being there....

I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas!

I know we did!

Christmas morning....

What Christmas morning looked like at the Cottage on Covington....

It all started with the cookies and milk we set out.

A bottle of "Mogie's milk" that was left over from Mogie's birthday party

and some home made chocolate dipped oreos and peanut butter and crackers.

this is Mogie not understanding

why she can't open pictures

until mommy gets the camera out.

But eventually the girls woke up to sparkly Tom's....

 some Taylor Swift perfume....

 a pogo stick....

 strawberry shortcake doll

 Taylor Swift poster....

 some Crest 3D white tooth paste....

 a nook tablet....

and for me,

a floppy hat, a mustard scarf,

some Coco Chanel perfume, and an I-pad.

We must have been VERY good this year!

P.S. hubby got way more than some tooth paste!

It is just all I got pictures of.

{now for the bills}