‘tis the season!

we certainly had an eventful week preparing for christmas here at our house.  monday was the patron saint day of st. nicholas.  we got a knock on the door that evening and when we opened it, we didn’t see anybody, but he left a box of fun stuff inside of a brand new SLED!  we didn’t try out the sled until the next day, but i enjoyed my new little gifts!  i got a gingerbread train kit, a sticker activity book, a new clifford book, a toy story puzzle, some candy and a little jasmine doll.  st. nick also left a box that he picked up from mimaw and papaw to bring down to me.  it had coloring books, window stickers, a few puzzles, and some avon body paints for the bathtub! 

     

  

daddy brought home the christmas tree on thursday and it really is a very pretty addition to our living room.  i loved helping put the lights on it and decorating it.  my favorite part was putting the candy canes on at the end!  

  

yesterday we put together the gingerbread train.  it didn’t turn out as pretty as the one on the box but i don’t care one bit about that!  i just like how colorful and yummy it looks!

  

i got a lovely early christmas present from grandma and grandpa!  they sent me a new dress for bitty baby!  she wore the dress the day we got it, but froggy also got a turn wearing it as well!  it is quite festive for the holidays! 

the nutcracker is this weekend and my performance was in last night’s show.  i did a great job up on the big stage in my cute mouse costume!  the stage pictures are from the dress rehearsal and are blurry since there is no flash allowed…sorry about that!

i love snow!

  we woke up to lots of snow today and i was so excited!  it snowed off and on yesterday, but overnight we got lots more and it has been snowing all day long today!  we went out this morning and played (daddy shoveled the driveway) and then we came in for some yummy hot chocolate.  right now i’m out again on the back deck for another quick snow-time before it gets dark.

yesterday daddy and mommy got the living room all painted pretty and we also have some of our christmas decorations out.  we are getting our tree tomorrow!  and dude the elf is back from the north pole.  he watches over me from a different spot everyday and i love finding him and talking to him throughout the day!   

let’s play BLOG CATCH-UP!

we last left off right before daddy’s birthday.  he was on a trip to the beach for work and came home on his birthday.  mommy and i made a cake for him and got balloons and i made him a nice big sign.  he called on his way home to give mommy and i enough time to hide and SURPRISE him for his special day.  

   

a couple days later, amy came to visit me in the mountains with her mom and her grandma linda, who was visiting from iowa.  we had a nice time together playing and we watched frosty the snowman, which is one of my favorites!  we also went to blowing rock for an afternoon and had a nice lunch at mellow mushroom, shopped a little, and played at the BR park.  (we took the parkway to get there to see some of the blue ridge.  for some reason, i wasn’t very happy when we stopped for a picture, but mommy took a few anyway!)

       

we celebrated thanksgiving at our house, just the three of us.  it was quite a relaxing day and we had a wonderful turkey dinner with green bean casserole, sweet tater casserole and topped it all off with pumpkin pie that daddy and i made together.  yummy! 

the next day, colby and kylie came up for a visit with their mommy.  we had fun playing together and i took them to my favorite restaurant, rice and beans!  colby showed me how to play tic-tac-toe while we were there!