Santa Claus is Coming to Town

During her last dance class before Christmas, Lily & her
friends did a tap dance to "Santa Claus is Coming to Town".
Poor Lily was just getting over Strep Throat, but she was
a little trooper and got well just in the nick of time.

After the performance, the girls had a little party
and exchanged gifts. It was really a wonderful way
to see how much they have learned.

As you can see, Lily & Laura certainly had fun.
They are a little wild when they get together, but
they love each other. Laura is Lily's best friend.

Baking Cookies with Catherine!

A couple of weekends before Christmas, Catherine
came over to play and bake Christmas cookies, but
before baking could get underway, they had to
have a little Princess time.
The girls had a blast rolling out the dough and cutting
out all of the different shapes.
They especially enjoyed icing the cookies.
I must say that Catherine was much neater
than her messy friend Lily.

Ta Da! The finished product!!!!!
Preston was very proud of his candy canes.

The Nutcracker

Lily, Kristin & I went to see the Ballet Mississippi's
"The Nutcracker".

Lily loved the ballet. Ever since then, she
has insisted that her name is Clara and that

Lily picked out a Sugar Plum Fairy snow globe
and a ballerina pen to buy during intermission.

When we got home, Daddy gave her a Nutcracker and,
as you can see, she LOVED it! The arm of the Nutcracker
even broke (like in the ballet) and Daddy had to
be Heir Drosselmeier and fix it.

Madison Christmas Parade

Lily and her ballet class from Repeat Performance were
in the Madison Christmas Parade last Saturday. They had a lot
of fun. GoGo (my mom) and my brother, Lee, came up to
stay with us Friday night and go see Lily in the parade. It
was an all around fun weekend!

Visitin' Santa...Southern Style!

The day after Thanksgiving, we went to Bass Pro Shop
to see Santa Claus. They had a wonderful Christmas village
and Lily really loved Santa this year.

After Lily had her picture made, Santa insisted that
Preston & I join them for another picture

Lily even got to write a letter to Santa. She wanted to
write it all by herself and she asked for a baby doll and
"all of da things that I like". At the end of her letter, I
offered to help her sign her name and she surprised me and did
it herself. I had no idea she could write her name. We are so
proud of her!!

I got Lily to make a little sample for everyone to see.
She did a great job! I really cannot believe how smart
she is! Learning to write your name is a big step.

They had a cute little village surrounded by a train
track. Lily thought the train was pretty cool.

After we watched the train for awhile, everyone
took the remote control car for a spin.Lily really enjoyed riding the "pink motorcycle" (really
a 4-wheeler).Hanging with a gator!

Camping out in a "hoog" tent

Overall, as Lily would say, we had a "favlious" time!

Oh Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree

A week or so ago we decorated our Christmas tree. This

year Lily really understood how to hang the ornaments on
the tree and got really into everything. You could tell how tall
she is, because there was a section of the tree in which the
ornaments were hung three and four deep on each branch.

Lily the Christmas Angel can't wait to decorate the tree!
We of course had to put her in her adorable
Christmas pjs for the decorating of the tree!

Mommy & Daddy gave Lily and Southern Miss
cheerleader ornament for her special ornament
this year. Here she is hanging it on the tree.

Our little reindeer.

Pilgrims and Indians

All ready to go eat some turkey!!!

Little Indian Chief

Princess Pouting Lily

That turkey will get you.....
(she was faking it...she might have missed
something if she really went to sleep)

Later she changed into her pilgrim hat....