New Years Eve

Tonight we went over to C and K's house to have a yummy dinner. Afterwards the girls made a gingerbread tree.


Let's start this thing

Of course we need to make sure it tastes good

Alpine Groves playdate

Met up with several families today for a playdate. We ended up staying about 4 hours. The kids ran around that whole time! Had a blast.

Mulan dolls
firing up the ole Easy Bake oven
Burning off some energy
Playing with friends
A and K opening their gifts

cute school project

Cute hand towel (pun intended) Angel made for me at school. Just had to post this.

Christmas Day

Wonderful Christmas day with family. Thankful that we are all healthy and are provided for. Some of the items Santa brought for Angel:

Easy bake oven
Bathtub Barbie
Mulan doll
Mulan/Tinkerbell/Snow White movies
Leapster games
several craft items


Santa ate almost all the cookies!






One of her favorite things





Practicing on her Hannah Montana dance mat Grandma gave her















Later we went to St. Augustine for the Night of Lights Holly Jolly Trolley ride. They gave us 3D glasses that made the lights look like snow flakes and stars. Great way to end the day.
Us at the big tree





Some of the beautiful lights.

Christmas Eve

Today started with baking cookies for Santa. We baked some chocolate chip and sugar cookies.


No sure what the pirate hat is all about.



















Later we caught up with Raina and her family to finally welcome them back from China and meet Naia.

Raina's family and Angel




















Then we caught an early dinner at Olive Garden.



















Fed the raindeer.


















And then to church.




After Mass












And in between, we opened a few presents!

Opening her Princess light up cowboy boots from Josh.



Along with the cookies and milk, Angel wanted to leave this note for Rudolph and a couple of pictures she drew for Santa. He remembered to take them too. She was so excited about that.

Ornament Exchange/Cookie Exchange

Today we went to Gigi, Sullivan and Sutton's annual Ornament/cookie exchange party. It was so much fun. The house is beautifully decorated and the girls just have so much fun.













Me and Gigi
















Angel, S and S









H and L











The front steps shot








Gma and Angel









Picking cookies














Opening her ornament




My ornament



Angel's ornament

















Later we rode downtown to see the window displays and then through the historic part of town to see the luminaries and beautiful houses lit up.