Sometimes

It's fun to play baker with friends.

And then sometimes it's fun to be the actual baker in th kitchen!

Sugar cookies of course cause it was December.

and sprinkles of course

can you ever have to many sprinkles?

apparently not

time to frost more

and eat more

I think she'd be happy with just a tub of frosting and a knife, no cookies needed.

The Perks of...

a Santa living in our neighborhood!

They had an open house one evening and the girls loved visiting with him. They hopped on and off his lap several times during the evening.

What? Another Field trip

This time we went to a Christmas tree farm.

First thing on our agenda:

Play

pump -the- water- so- your -duckie -can -race- down- the- cut -open- plastic- pipe- game.

I don't know if that's really the name of the game, but the kids loved it and probably could have stayed there all morning playing it. Just some good old fashion fun.

Next up: Sophia and her friends dressed a scare crow in some random clothing.

Then they watched how to make a fresh wreath and got to help a little too.

Then we were off on a hay ride around the farm to learn about how Christmas Trees grow.

Lastly the class picked out a tree to take back to the pre-k and decorate.

Fun day!

Sunday Best

My Mom brought these dresses from CA from H&M. So cute. Why is the only H&M in Texas in Dallas? They better hurry and make online shopping available in the USA.

Small Business Saturday

Led us to Frederickburg. Why? Because they have a cute little fabric store that accepts American Express and I got $25 worth of fabric and notions for FREE! Love small business Saturday. So glad Mike and Margie told me about it.
My Mom and I enjoyed looking at all the little shops and of course the girls and my Dad had fun on the street.

There were doggies

and little wind storms.

It was actually very cold and windy that day and just as we passed this area where the leaves picked up in circle and wisped passed the girls. They were in heaven running around chasing the leaves. I should have taken a video instead of stills cause it would have portrayed it a lot better.

Even so you can tell they were loving it.

Thanksgiving

Rob carving the delicious turkey my Mother made us.
The rolls!

Sophia loving the rolls!

A little after dinner play on their friend Avery's scooter.

Later that night my Mom and I actually went out to brave some black Friday shopping. We only went to Toys R Us. They opened at 9pm thank goodness. I don't think I could have stayed up any later than that to go shopping. We got there about 30 mins before they opened and I dropped my Mom off in the back alley of the store(that's how long the line already was) then went to park. It actually wasn't too bad and we got in pretty quick. We ended up with everything we went in for. So it was worth the little bit of hassle we encountered.

My Parents came for Thanksgiving

It's always a treat to have family in town. November was a pretty good month for us. Mike and Margie at the beginning and my parents at the end. I don't seem to have taken a whole lot of photos while they were here, but we sure LOVED their visit and all the help they gave me while they were here. Here Sophia is helping Meema make homemade rolls the day before Thanksgiving.

My parents went to Europe in the Spring and brought me back these cute glass jars. Perfect for little flowers. They actually ate yogurt out of them every morning. I couldn't imagine throwing these away. Too cute!

Peepa also brought his new iPad and that was a hit with both girls. Sophia somehow got it into her head that it was call an iPatch. "Peepa can I play with your iPatch?"