"christmas tree shop"

dad and evie 2010

we ventured out last monday night to the, as evie calls it, "Christmas tree shop". it was such a fun night...and one that has quickly become another tradition for our family. especially the snapshot of evie on top of the car with the tree. she probably won't be so hip on taking the same picture when she's 16.

dad and evie 2009

evie 2008

giving thanks...

this thanksgiving we were so lucky to have rich, renee and sallie stay with us for a couple of days. it was so fun to catch up and especially watch evie and sallie play together. we headed over to eldorado to my parents for the afternoon and shared it with most of the morris family. we ate too much, as usual and mapped out our plan for black friday. It is definitely a day i look forward to as it is the traditional, super early, shopping day with my sister, renee and this year we were joined by my cousin amy. we headed out at 2:30 am and shopped until we literally dropped. we arrived home shortly before 1 and i headed straight back to bed for a long winter's nap!

the kid's table

the 3am shot

all finished!

build a...

bunny!

today we ventured to build-a-bear for evie's first bear building experience. hampton has been there a few times, so she was sweet to show us the ropes. both girls chose the same bunny and evie, of course picked the most blue outfit she could find.

right before the stuffing went in

kissing her bunny's heart

all dressed and ready to go!

such a fun afternoon! looking forward to making many more memories together!

radio city....ROCKETTES!

What a treat to make it to the Radio City Rockettes Christmas Spectacular! So much fun to be with "just the girls" and dream about what it would like to be able to kick like they do! Joined by Dana, Hampton, Mee-Maw and Doodle, we sat on the floor and had such a great view of the entire show. Evie loved every minute of it..and so did I!

dance class

today was a day i've waited a long time to arrive. the opportunity to go watch my daughter in her first dance class. she has been going since august and today was her first observation. of course i arrived with camera (& took too many pictures to count), video camera and sweet mee-maw. evie was so thrilled to know we could actually come into class with her. oh my, she was quite the little entertainer and obviously is not afraid of a little attention. i'm not sure if that's good or bad. ah, is there anything cuter than a little girl in her leotard and ballet slippers? precious!

lucy and evie - how fun they get to do this together!

the girls and their proud moms

happy halloween

this year's halloween was super-fabulous! complete with a visit from papa and doodle, a trip around the neighborhood, a costume party and topping the night off with the traditional time at my sister's house, for yummy chili and more trick-or-treating, of course. evie had

THE BEST time and is already talking about going trick-or-treating "next week". i have to say, she makes the most beautiful butterfly, don't you think?