Meeting Santa!

We waited till the end this year to go see Santa at the mall... I wasn't sure what to expect with Jack because when Gia was his age, she was DEATHLY afraid! We waited in a fairly long line but thankfully John was there so I took Jack around the mall because no way in hell this kid is waiting in a stroller LOL. We got up to Santa and Jack is ALL about him! Giving high fives and he sat on his lap with a big ol CHEESE! Gia was way more apprehensive, but she warmed up and told him she wanted all Frozen stuff :)
Thank God for this thing at the mall kept Jack busy for 25 minutes LOL

 SANTA!!!

 After we saw Santa, we headed to my school to join in their Christmas party... so much fun!

 One of my students gave me this card, seriously, so stinking sweet. Made my whole year :)

Now we are all ready for Christmas!

Radio City!

For Christmas this year my Aunt Linda got all the ladies in the family (and Nicky) tickets to see the Christmas Spectacular. Gia had only been to the city one time, three years ago when she was not even 6 months old, so I was looking forward to taking her in to see it :) We met for lunch then walked over to Radio City to see the show! It was chilly but Gia had a great time and it was so nice to spend time with my family, especially my Grandma who is 85 now and she was so happy to have everyone together :) Can't wait to do more fun stuff together as Gia gets older.
It took awhile for Gia to warm up but once she did she was loving her cousin Gabriella... 

 selfie time lol

 hugs!

 all ready to go!

 walking in the city!

 ready for the show!

 wooden soldiers

 love this girl!

 3D glasses!

 my fave pic ever

one last shot of us at the tree but by this point Gia was done!!!

Such a great day, hope we can do it again next year :)

Baking Christmas Cookies!

I am not much of a baker, but every year for Christmas I make a few batches. I don't know how good they are but we all love em! I had a big helper this year, Gia was excited and helped me crack the eggs, mix and of course taste! She was actually awesome at cutting out the cookies from the dough. I am SO not a baker oh boy this takes it out of me lol. She was too funny would not wear clothes while we baked, only the cute apron I bought her last year.
Here she is rolling out the dough with Daddy, because that is Daddy's job. I tried this like twice and it went so bad I had to make new dough LOL. 

 love her little body, I am in such denial she is growing up :(

 My beauty

 I tried to keep Jack busy by playing with all the baking utensils

 Soon he figured out he was missing out on the fun...

 Seriously with this TUSH!!?!??!?!

 Now onto decorating, this was a straight up disaster LOL. Gia had at least some idea what to do, Jack just wanted to literally dump out everything onto his plate then he would FLIP OUT if you didn't let him. We ended it early and I let G do it alone the next day.

 He is so lucky he is so cute ;)

 So much fun spending these times together. Love you kids more than you will ever know :)