Merry Christmas!

Well Christmas is finally here! I was so excited I couldn't sleep so I got up at 6:30 and baked sausage muffins for everybody. We arranged for my parents and TC's parents to get here at 7:30 so they could see us open up Santa. My sweet baby was so excited. She was walking out of her room and goes "wait, need hairbow!" That's my girl! She knew there were going to be tons of pictures taken....I think she was more surprised when she came around the corner to find all her grandparents sitting on the couch. Our house currently looks like Toy's R Us exploded in it! There are baby dolls, ponies, play food and more everywhere! My personal fav is a "fur-real" dog that blinks it eyes and is motion activated. When you pet it, it moves it's head and wags it's tail. I flipping like it more than her I think. She hasn't officially named it but keeps calling it Alleigh/Lucy. Which are Bill and Leigh's dogs that she loves! So what a blessed morning we have had so far.

We had three family Christmas' yesterday and have one more to go today. I love, love, love family time and being able to see my baby so excited. How blessed are we that a little baby in a manager was born this day so many years ago to save us?

MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM THE LIGHTSEY's

Reagan's Christmas Party

Ever since I was little I have wanted to be a mom. I wanted to be just like my mom. (Love you momma!) And I wanted to be the class mom just like her. I wanted to be at every event and field trip just like she was. So today I got to start following in her footsteps! It was Reagan's class party at school. SO MUCH FUN. Ten 2 year olds will wear you out and I decided her teacher does not get paid enough.  Those kids were FIRED up about some chicken nuggets and cheese puffs. I loved it. I am so thankful I have the flexibility to be there and be involved in her life. Here are a few pics. 

Reagan and one of her BFF's Madden

So happy to get a cupcake! My baby loves some cake!!!

She was across from her boy toy John Michael who also likes to eat other peoples food!!

Her class and her teachers! So thankful for these hard working women!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS

Thankful

Today I am so thankful and have a full heart. I have not been in the holiday spirit at all and have completely not even decorated our new house. I was up all night last night with a sick baby and am exhausted. BUT I am not complaining!!! We are so blessed. AND I MEAN BLESSED. This day 2 years ago I had been home 2 days with a 4 pound baby. What a miracle she is. She amazes us all day everyday and not a day goes by I don't thank the Lord for saving her and giving her to me to raise on this earth. I could go on for days about her, but she is the focus of my blogs and tonight I want to write about my husband.

TC has been my best friend for it seems like my whole life. But maybe just about 10 years now!! WOW...where does the time go? I remember just yesterday sitting in his black truck in the County High parking lot before school. What babies we were! Who would have thought as high school sweethearts we would have made it this long. I thank the Lord for him everyday. I would not be where I am without him. He is my strength and my world. He has turned out to be such a wonderful husband and daddy to us. He is my leader and provider. He is my best friend. Most of my best memories are with him. We laugh together daily. We are a team. He loves me unconditionally (most of the time). He has given me the best gift I could ever receive in Reagan. What a lucky girl I am. I couldn't do it without him. So here's to my husband and my baby daddy. I Love You TC!!

ahh still potty training

Once again I am posting about potty training. WHY oh WHY is there not someone out there to come to your house, handle the training and leave with a smile on their face? Not that my brilliant child isn't doing wonderfully, its just a pain in the butt. We are currently bribing her with spongebob gummies and marshmallows. She has figured out that if she performs then comes a treat, so she will sit down on the potty and not go. BUT, she will sweetly say "MOmmy I tried real good!" So how do you not reward that? OR she will perform and then comments on it when she stands up. For instance, #2 the other day she said "WHOA that's a big one!!" I fell out in the floor laughing and I heard TC snorting from the living room. It really is an adventure in potty training every day.

One last story...I had her dressed in her ballet tights, leotard and coat heading out the door to ballet and running late. She then announces she has to potty to which I just stood there debating on wether I wanted to undress all of that. She looked at me for a second then said "Oh well, I teetee'd my diaper now" ONLY my child would do that then tell me and go about her business. The bad part? I was just glad I didn't have to take all those clothes off her.

Its December!

So just realized I haven't posted since October...Whoops! We have been crazy busy and have had a blast...Tons to catch up on so I will start with Halloween. Reagan was a black cat and LOVED it. She ran up to every door, screamed Trick-or-Treat, and made sure they put her candy in the bucket. HILARIOUS..TC and I pretty much ended up just chasing her around and around a friend of our's neighborhood. Great night and good times....Next weekend was her 2nd birthday!! HELLO KITTY party it was! That was also a blast and we had a huge turnout....Needless to say we counted up 48 people, 6 dogs and 2 cats. Yeap that's right, EVERYBODY came and it was a beautiful day for it. She had a bunch of her little friends there and they were super cute. OK, so next weekend my wonderful husband tells me on Tuesday well it's official we are MOVING!! I get super excited and do nothing about it...Wednesday afternoon he comes home and informs me we are moving on SATURDAY. Yeap, that's right people..he told me on Wednesday we are moving houses in 3 days. (Insert heart attack here). We frantically packed the house and on Saturday began the process. Did I mention we were swapping houses with my bro-in-law? Basically we did a house swap in one day. WORST IDEA EVER. But, with the help of some pretty awesome friends, it was done and here we are! This is our third week in the new house and we LOVE LOVE LOVE it. We are right on the lake, have an absolutely beautiful view and a very short walk to the water and our dock. I love waking up and looking at the lake. Ever since we got married TC has talked about moving on the water. This is where he grew up and we are lake rats in the summer. Not a weekend passes we don't go out on the boat, so needless to say we are PUMPED for this summer. So that brings us up to now...3 weeks before Christmas and I haven't even begun shopping... YUCK. I dread it.

Ok so for some cute Reagan funnies:
*On the potty (naked cause she thinks that's how its suppose to be) "WHEW Mommy, I smell awful!"
*"Do myself" aka do it myself cause we are really independent right now
*Playing in her Dora the Explorer play kitchen she calls her uncle bill bill on the phone every night and pretends to talk to him, his wife Leigh and most importantly their dogs Alleigh and Lucy whom she LOVES...and I mean LOVES
*I picked her up from pre-school the other day and she promptly informed me John-Michael (a little boy in her class) ate her yogurt and she needed more NOW


That's all I can think of for now. Going to upload some pics when I find the time!