The Annual Smocking guild fashion show

Another wonderful evening of beautiful children in beautiful clothes made with love by those closest to them! The children all looked so happy and did a wonderful job. Tripp had his debut and he was hilarious! My Mom walked him up there so that I could take some pictures. The first outfit he hid behind Tessa...

... How could this baby ever be shy?

Then the little one was like a little Princess in her outfit that Tessa made... she twirled for the ladies and gentlemen and loved every minute of the show

Then he came around on the next round... he was a complete ham and made everyone laugh by crawling down the aisle... it was hilarious!

As you can see there is zero cooperation when poor Sissy tries to help Mommy get a picture...

All the darling children minus Tripp

Thank you Tessa for another year of beautiful outfits for the children. The love and work that goes into each outfit is truly appreciated and loved!

Ms Adi's wedding

We celebrated a very special wedding today! It was Ms. Adi's wedding. She is a very special part of our family. Juliette was a "flower girl." She was SO excited! It was quite an evening and one not soon she will forget!

Let the glad tidings ring!

It has been so much fun getting ready for the holidays! We got into the full swing of things this past weekend with the tree! Juliette and Tripp had way too much fun under a tent chasing each other around the trees! Tripp was SO into the action this year and did not want to stop running at all!

Able to hold him down for one second to capture a picture....

... and then in all the commotion I looked at the tree laying down and it looked perfect... well its perfect all right... 9 1/2 feet tall! It took three men to load the tree on the car. At that point it had not even hit us the size of it until we tried to roll the tree off the car... it was the BIGGEST tree that you could imagine. We are getting some good laughs as I swear it takes up half the living room... you ask for a picture of the tree all decorated? Well we have not even started... I am beginning to think she looks beautiful just as she is in the room. 

Stodda the Elf must be lost...

or so that's what Juliette is telling herself.... I have been waiting for some perfect behavior before Stodda comes around and we just can't seem to get that. Last week Juliette woke up to a note on the floor and a friend of Stodda's who claimed his name to be "Moonshine" had arrived...

A quite excited little girl to even find a friend of Stodda's... her response to the note... "Of course I have been behaving..."

Then she found something very strange... it looks like a reindeer lost his antler and at the same time there was broken glass under the tree where the elf apparently dropped an ornament climbing into the tree...

Juliette was a bit in shock and refused to touch it or get any closer to it. The rest of the morning here is what she did...

There is a little girl that is hoping that Stodda arrives very soon...

Saint Nicholas Day

Saint Nicholas paid a visit to Juliette's class overnight. She had to decorate one of her shoes and leave it out in hopes that Saint Nick would come...

Her beautiful shoe that she and Tessa decorated...

Off to school in hopes that the jolly good man will arrive!

a "Doh orange"

Let this little guy gets his hands on Doh's backyard grown orange and you have one very happy baby boy!

An evening out on the town with my Man...