Happy New Year 2013!!!!

Hope everyone has a wonderful time ringing in the new year. 2012 was a good year, but know that 2013 will be a great year! We had our annual Benihana dinner with the B Fam and some family fun time afterwards. Little lady was unsure of the chef and all his antics but he started to grow on her after awhile. On a side note,  I do not think they do as many tricks as they used to. We get the train and volcano deal and the flipping of the shrimp into his hat but no knives being violently tossed into the air.  Anyways, we had a great time none the less.

Merry Merry 2012

Having fun at Papa and Gig's place! Little one had a fun Christmas and loved opening gifts this year, even more than last year.  More pics to come on that. 

Cuzins

Christmas Photo Dump

Christmas time is in full force and we are soaking it up! We even got to go see the Nutcracker with Gammy and her cousin.

Baking, decorating and tasting Christmas cookies.  Note to self, flour and a toddler is a messy combination!

Visiting the Trains at Northpark

Giving me some sass!

Storytime with Santa

Putting on her Christmas dress to go see the jolly ol' Santa Claus.  Despite how cute the crying pics are with Santa, she did great and sat and chatted with him for quite a bit.  She even gave Santa the gig'em sign out of the blue...promise I did not provoke her.  He did it right back and claimed he is a HUGE AGGIE FAN! Who knew! ;)

MMmmm Cookies

We went to see our sweet little cousin sing at her annual Christmas program and visit with Santa.  They both did great with Santa this year and even gave Santa her two cents on what she wants for Christmas.  She was pumped.  I think her favorite part was decorating the SUGAR cookies.  Her sweet tooth was in candy land HEAVEN!!!!

Loving on her uncle who showed her how to triple dip her cookie into icing and toppings.  That's what uncles are for.  I guess it is payback for when we let her cousin drink a bunch of Sunkist from a 2 liter bottle when she was little =)

Double Trouble

Mrs. Holly

So I caved into the whole Elf of the Shelf deal. I am glad I did as C is having fun looking for her in the morning. Mrs. Holly happened to be relaxing on the piano chilling in one of her dolls' chairs.  She thought it was pretty funny and decided to play her some self-written tunes.  I tried to stand there and dance around with her...she quickly told me to leave.  She was playing for Mrs. Holly and not mommy.  Geeze! Plus Mrs. Holly is a good behave yourself because Santa is watching tact =)