Maggie's 3rd Frozen Birthday

What kind of birthday party do you have for a three year old princess who has been obsessed with Frozen or "Let It Go" as she calls it and whose birthday is also in January?  Yep, we had to make her a Frozen wonderland complete with a magical ice castle and her favorite princesses and their snowman friend.  I think she approved. 

Our beautiful princess with her friends, Anna and Elsa. 

Our dream come true princess. 

Mommy's attempt at a Frozen cake with a cutout castle and some figurines for her to keep.

I think she approved of mommy's attempts. 

We love our girl!

Miss Maggie has a lot of men to protect her. 

Mattox loves singing Happy Birthday. 

And helping her blow out her candle. 

Not too sure about cutting into her cake and messing it up. 

Brody is always a positive critic. 

Daddy's girl

Present time!

So excited about her big present. 

Her very own princess castle.  This one was on my list years ago as a present for her big sister, Mattie, so I am thankful we could get it for Maggie. 

Even the boys like the princess castle. Ha!

2021 in Review

 Our yearly calendar summary of 2021:  

January

We enjoyed getting to experience Maggie's first snow in Asheville, NC at the Biltmore. 

February

We had a nice little Valentine's celebration at home.

March 

We celebrated Evan's 14th birthday and Mattox's 6th birthday with a trip to the Children's museum in Columbia.  The giant kid behind them is named Eddie, and he was wearing his giant face mask. 

April

We celebrated Easter and Brody's 10th birthday.

May

These babies always make me feel loved for Mother's Day.

June

We enjoyed our summer vacation in June when we also celebrated Father's Day, our Anniversary, and Mattie's 8th birthday.

July

We celebrated Independence Day at the lake and also at a baseball game. 

August

These kids all went back to school.  We had a 9th grade Freshman, a 5th grader in his last year of elementary school, a first grader, a pre-kindergartner, and a little toddler who wanted to go to school. 

September

We celebrated Mom's birthday with a trip home to NC to visit family and friends.  We saw Papa and visited Seymour Johnson Air Force Base and visited our favorite park in Raleigh to ride the train and carousel. 

October

We enjoyed lots of Fall fun in October picking out pumpkins, visiting the farm, and dressing up as a Frozen family for Halloween.

November

We enjoyed seeing some beautiful places in the Fall on the North Carolina Blue Ridge Parkway and in the mountains of South Carolina.

December

We enjoyed our second Christmas living in our new home and celebrating Grayson's 5th birthday.  

What I'm Lovin' Christmas {2021}

There was plenty to love about Christmas 2021.  I'm loving:  

Another self-made Christmas card. 

Little girls' Christmas list. 

Little boys' Christmas list.

Little boys who want fart guns for Christmas!

Big boy Christmas list. 

Teenage Christmas list although they do get way more expensive.  

Little boys putting out cookies and milk for Santa. 

Cookies and milk for Santa and Carrots for the reindeer.

Stockings and presents mysteriously appearing on Christmas Eve.

Magical letters left by Santa. 

Christmas presents around the tree.

Poor Santa who passes out under the tree from exhaustion.  Haha! 

But he works his magic and leaves the gifts. 

Handsome Santa who settles in for the night. 

Little ones ready to see what Santa brought.

Little girls who find their new play house. 

Little boys who start digging into their stockings. 

And big boys too.

Starting the unwrapping. 

Little boys who also wanted the moon for Christmas.  Santa came through!

Little girls who love to open presents!

Little boys opening their fart guns.  If one gets something, the other has to get one too.  Haha!  

Little redhaired girls who love their new redhaired Barbie. 

Little girls who get a pink Barbie car too. 

Sweet 10 year olds opening presents. 

Little boys who will now annoy their parents with their new Alexa device. 

Taking her dolls for a ride. 

Little boys opening big presents together. 

They are glad to have a new TV in their room so they can watch something besides youtube.  Maybe that's the parents.  Haha!  

10 year olds receiving long awaited gifts like a static electric ball. 

Little girls opening their stocking. 

Frozen obsessed little girls who love their new Elsa water bottle for school.  She will start preschool on her 3rd birthday! 

Little girls enjoying their chocolate treat. 

Teenagers opening gifts.  We are now a full Alexa house.  Haha! 

And his big gift.  I swore I wouldn't ever buy an Apple Mac computer, but he wanted one for his computer programming class so we got a good deal on a refurbished one. 

Two new Kindles for two little ones.  They were tired of sharing with big brother.  Of course, Maggie takes whichever one is charged. Ha!

Traditional cinnamon rolls for Christmas morning breakfast. 

Family Christmas!

Opening presents with Grandma and Papa James. 

Visits with cousin Grady! 

Little girls opening their favorite present from Grandma. 

Frozen obsessed little girls with their new Elsa doll. 

Little boys opening presents. 

Sweet cousins opening presents together.  Grady is Brody's favorite because they are very close in age. 

Sweet boys who love Pokemon and Bakugan characters. 

Cousins and friends. 

Little girls loving their new doll. 

And "feeding" her too. 

New clothes for teenagers. 

Fruit snack treats for toddlers. 

Celebrating Jesus's 2021st birthday together. 

Singing Happy Birthday to Jesus. 

Blowing out Jesus's birthday candles. 

Little barefoot boys outside with their new remote control car on Christmas. 

Little boys who play with little sister's baby dolls.