Christmas Eve & Day

We have always celebrated on Christmas Eve and then on Christmas day we just stay in and relax. Since I've gotten married we now have twice the Christmas celebrations because we split the day between my husband's family and mine. So there is twice the food and Jayleen gets spoiled by all her relatives!

It's so much fun and hectic at the same time lol.

We got Jayleen a little jeep this year because we thought she was finally at the age where she can drive one and she loved it! Although she hasn't gotten the hang of it fully she was definitely having a good time with it outside! Two other gifts she loves is her new little trampoline from my parents and an Elsa doll she carries everywhere from my in laws! They know their baby girl so well!

It was such a great Christmas and I hope everyone had a great one as well.

Happy Holidays Everyone!

xoxo, JazminH

Making Gingerbread House and Brunching at a Christmas Wonderland

Every year we buy and build a gingerbread house and its always so much fun. This year on the other hand we bought one that just wouldn't stay up lol. It was definitely a task but all Jayleen was interested in was eating it so it worked out. We ended up using a ton of frosting and in the end finally kept it's shape haha. A lot of people on my IG were telling me to use a glue gun next time and that's actually a smart idea so def will do that. It was fun though & I think the fact it kept falling gave us plenty of laughs lol.

I went to a Christmas bar at "Parish The Brasserie and Neighborhood Cafe" with some friends a few weeks ago and our waitress told us they would also be doing brunch on the weekends as well and I just thought of how much Jayleen would love it so I made a reservation for this past Sunday. As soon as we walked in Jayleen's eyes just lit up, she was pointing at everything and since it was a gloomy day it was extra dark in there which made the lights just stand out more! The food was great and the music selection was the best, we heard Jayleen sing along to at least three songs. Such a cute place!

xoxo, JazminH

Holiday Fun & Activities

We love the holidays especially now that Jayleen is getting a little older and we are able to do more fun activities with her. We wanted to get her really into the holiday mood and be excited for it all so we planned a lot of cute little outings with her this month some of which we still haven't done but here are a few we have.

I saw one of my favorite brunch spots was going to do free cookie decorating and I signed us up really quick because they only 9 spots left. When we got there we just ordered coffee and tea and Jayleen got to decorating. They gave us 3 cookies for free and we could purchase additional ones for $1. She loved it especially eating all the icing lol. & we got an additional cookie just so she could be entertained while we finished our drinks haha. It was just a fun and chill activity, would definitely do it again!

So this one my husband George actually found. It is called Santa's Fantastical and it was amazing! Jayleen had a blast and so did we! They had different rooms with either activities or photo backdrops. They also had a stage where they would do a small performance every 30min. In one of the rooms they actually had photos with Santa which was amazing because we hadn't seen Santa so it worked out perfectly! Jayleen also insisted on getting her face painted and chose a reindeer which turned out really cute! 

    

This week we went to a free show we go to yearly at the Fox Theater called Holiday Extravaganza. We always enjoy it because they have mighty mo playing, little acts and at the end they play a Christmas movies. This year it was actually not a Christmas movie but an old black and white film of Mickey Mouse because they were celebrating 90 years at the Fox and that's the first film they played. Jayleen loved it being the big Disney fan she is lol. It was such a nice little night out.

Lastly this week was my husband's birthday and we decided to go to Asheville to take Jayleen snow tubing and eat lunch at the Omni Grove. Unfortunately the tubing was closed because they had some rain the night before that melted the snow so they actually had the snow machines on and blasting getting ready to open again during the weekend. But they were nice enough to let Jayleen play in the snow for a while. She had such a good time and I can only imagine when we take her back to snow tube how much more fun she will have! Lunch was great though, and we also got a really tasty hot chocolate as we explored the resort!

  

Hope you enjoyed this rather long post lol,

xoxo JazminH