We wish you a merry Christmas

Merry Christmas, blogfans! I gut up all aquiver with excitement at 6:30 this morning to go see if Santa had come. He had! At least, that's not what our tree and stockings looked like last night...

I paid pretty much no attention to that huge lump of wrapping paper to the left of the tree, but was fascinated with my stocking stuffers, from barrettes and headbands to M&Ms and slinkys.

Eventually though I discovered that big oddly shaped (and oddly wrapped thing) and discovered not only that it was for me but that it was also a real big-girl bicycle! I was so excited I climbed on before the paper was even off of it.

But then later I opened a few of the necessary accoutrements, such as streamers and a helmet (oh, and my ballet clothes, because everyone rides bikes dressed as ballerinas, don't they?), and got a better pose on the bike.

Pretty cool, huh? Unfortunately it rained all day so we didn't get a chance to try it out except in the living room, but I bet it'll be tons of fun. How were your Christmases, blog fans?

My Christmas Pageant

This year I got to participate in the Christmas Pageant at church. I was a lamb. (Or a sheep, I've been called both.)

Aren't I cute?

My main job was to lead the procession to the altar, so I practiced that, back and forth:

I also got to sing Away in a Manger, and I did wonderfully. Mami and Daddy and Grandma and Granddaddy were very proud of me!

A special visit

Today was a special day for me. I got to go to Daddy's Rotary Club with him. Not just that, but guess who was there? SANTA! I was so excited to see him I ran up and gave him a great big hug.

I also told him all about what a, ehem, good girl I've been all year long. I think he believed me!

He promised he would come visit me in a couple days...

After that Daddy took me to a park near his office, which I thought was very fun. My second park trip in two days - isn't vacation great?!?

The Great Christmas Performance

Today was our holiday concert at school. Here we are singing our two songs: Away in a Manger and Jingle Bells.


What do you think?

My first gingerbread house

At school this week we made gingerbread houses out of graham crackers. Here's mine:

It didn't last very long though!

Yummy...

Dance recital

Last week we had our dance recital in Ms. Amy's dance class. I showed off my moves for the crowd.

Check out the air on this one - good photography Daddy!

I've told Santa that I really hope he brings me some new dance clothes, since mine are getting way too small. Do you think he will?

Christmas cheer

A Christmas dance for you to enjoy

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The best Christmas tree ever

We went on a quest yesterday to find the perfect Christmas tree. It was cold and rainy, but there were a lot of pretty trees out at Pam's lot.

I looked and looked and finally found the greatest tree ever.

We brought it home and then started decorating it this afternoon.

Daddy hung the high ornaments because he's so tall.

And this is the final product. What do you think?

We're getting so excited for Christmas around here!

Our trip to D.C.

As you know if you've seen Lela's blog, we all went up to Washington D.C. for Thanksgiving. It was cold there, we needed hats and jackets and everything!

We did a lot of fun stuff. Here are some of my favorite pictures of the weekend, in no particular order.

One day we went to the zoo. We saw all kinds of cool animals, like pandas, elephants, lions, tigers prarie dogs... and the orangutans came out to see us too.


My Aunt Melissa is my godmother, and I always call her my Fairy Godmother. So when we saw this store we had to take a picture in front of it!

We also went to see the Capitol, which is right near cousin Reeny's house.

And since Daddy says I'm going to be a lawyer one day (I like arguing with him), we took a picture of me in front of the Supreme Court too.

All this patriotic stuff got me going, and I proudly showed everyone that I've learned the Pledge of Allegiance, too.

I hope we can go back to D.C. soon!