The Meeces: 2010

Meredith's Wedding

Meredith's wedding was a great time! We left our camera at home, but Lara was nice enough to share her camera with us for the night and sent us some pics.
The wedding was really sweet and Meredith looked gorgeous. The reception was at a really cool place in Nashville called Houston Station. I think maybe it was an old train station?? It was decorated beautifully and had a really fun rustic feel but with a chic modern twist. I loved the table centerpieces...

It was great to see lots of friends we hadn't seen in a while. We are so happy for Meredith and Kyle!

Early Christmas

Our friend Meredith got married in Nashville over the weekend so we decided to all go and celebrate an early Christmas with some of my family. It was such a wild/fun/exhausting weekend...
We were debating on what time of day to fly with the girls since there is really no ideal time to be traveling for 5 hrs. We left at 6:30 one night and at 1:00 the next time. We decided that neither of those were great and next time we are going to try a morning flight:) They actually did pretty good on the way there and were such troopers with everything. We are getting much better with all of our travel organization too and learn something new every trip. We have the security check points down to a science and it takes lots of teamwork. Unload all the bags and take out the baby food and bottles so they can do their test on them, take off our jackets and shoes, send the car seat through the belt, take the girls shoes off, each pick up one of the girls out of the double stroller, fold down the stroller and then team lift it up on to the belt while holding squirming babies that want to get down. It is a process! The trip home didn't go as well because we were all so cranky and tired and ready to get home. I will be glad when they can at least "understand" why we have to do all of that and know that its just a trip and we will eventually be home. I think they thought we were never getting off the plane or going home. It's a hard concept to understand when you are just carted around everywhere with no say in anything. Thank goodness for the iPad and Wonder Pets- they were our lifesavers.
Regardless of the traveling part, we had such a great time getting to see everyone and are so glad we made the trip. Ryan and Jenny hosted Christmas and had the most amazing brunch prepared for us including mimosas and yummy spiked eggnog. We opened presents for hours and the girls were so good. It was right in the middle of lunch and nap time too, but they were having so much fun they didn't care. After they had lunch we literally didn't hear a peep out of them the whole time- they just crawled around in all of the bows and wrapping paper and every once in a while actually stopped to play with a new toy. Skylar's favorite present was a baby doll with glasses and I'm pretty sure Savannah's favorite toy was not actually one of hers but was a work bench that Benjamin got that has a power saw on it. She had much more interest in the wrapping paper and tearing it into tiny pieces than in the toys.

Big Ben

Playing with Ben's truck

Eating toys

Presents everywhere!

Savannah and Great Uncle Lee
Feeding baby
Pillow Pet!!
Lost in the wrapping paper...
Christmas madness

The girls after a long day of traveling!

Night out on the historic tizzzown...

I had to at least try and make visiting Colonial Williamsburg on purpose sound more fun. Just kidding Tyler!- it was actually a cool experience. Even cooler because we were baby free! The girls spent their first night alone over the weekend with a babysitter that wasn't a grandmother. Fegan kept the girls overnight Saturday night and we got to experience Colonial Williamsburg at Christmas. We live just an hour away and Ty has been wanting to go since we moved to Richmond. It was the perfect time because they have lots of pretty Christmas decorations and do some special events for December.
We walked all around on Saturday (cold!) and took tours of the historical buildings and everything and then Sunday we did some outlet shopping on the way home. It was a really fun quick trip! We are so thankful to be able to leave the girls and know they are in good hands. They always have a blast with Fegan too. I wish we had family closer too, but am so happy for a wonderful babysitter!
Here are a few pics from our trip... The Fife and Drummers were awesome to see. Everybody was dressed in 18th century clothing and we kept thinking about how different it would have been to wear those kinds of things. The swords are all from the Governor's Palace...

Tiny little walker on the loose...

Thanksgiving Week

We had such a great Thanksgiving this year. We had family members from both sides of the family in town to celebrate with us. The girls had a blast and loved all the attention. The poor grandmothers both had to sleep on mattresses on the floor, but they were troopers about it! A few times a year it would be nice to have a 6 bedroom house:) Thanks to everyone's help we are fully decorated for Christmas. That would have never happened this year without help. Skylar is loving the tree and is so excited to see all the ornaments and lights. She just sits there and says "OOOoooooo!" Her other favorite thing to say right now is "It's cuuuuuuute!" Imagine that in a really sweet southern high pitched excited voice. It is adorable! Everything she sees is cuuuuute.
Everyone loved seeing how much Savannah walks now. She still falls down all the time and trips over things, but she doesn't care one bit and just gets back up and keeps going. She is so busy all day long....and of course still LOUD.
We got a new wagon that the girls are loving. Savannah just looks around and smiles the whole time and Skylar gets so excited. She thinks now that whenever we leave the house we are going on a wagon ride. A wagon ride or to Target. This morning I took her out to get the mail and as we were walking out the door she said "Target!" Mail not quite as exciting as Target...