We headed to Florida this year for Christmas (a tradition of my families for years!). It was chilly but so fun to hang out with my family!
Willa has never been to the beach before so she LOVED investigating the sand and water. It really is the hugest sand box!
Christmas Eve we went to church with everyone - Violet even dressed up as an Angel for the Unrehearsed Christmas Pagent. Here she is with cousin Claire and Willa.
Christmas Eve dinner!
Violet and Claire were GREAT playmates. Here is Claire as a reindeer and Violet as Santa driving her sleigh!
Christmas morning!
Violet and her new ballet slippers and fairy princess dress.
The annual Christmas Day walk on the beach. Willa was super sandy and you can see how much Jon enjoyed having her little hands on his face! :)
Willa and Violet both LOVED the pool! We have got to get them some swimming lessons. They both spent many hours in their rings floating in the water and spinning around. Willa also loved getting dunked under water. Who knew?
Both the girls like to pretend to go on a trip in the sea kayak.
Willa's favorite part of the beach was rolling around in the sand.
Both girls in their matching Tutu Swim Suits.
Playing on the beach with cousins Anna and Ethan.
Violet's new monster face that we get the pleasure of seeing ALL THE TIME.
Out for dinner at a Japanese Steak House. Violet wasn't too sure about the fire at our table!
We had such a fun and tiring trip that Violet decided to take a little nap at the Atlanta airport on the way home.
Violet showing off her Christmas Tree she decorated at preschool.
The girls freezing at the Christmas Parade in Golden.
One of their favorite games - NAPTIME!!!
Hope you had a wonderful Christmas 2010! I can't wait to see what 2011 brings!
The girls watching the giraffes.
Our little ray o' sunshine!
Pretending to take a nap. Aw.
Violet also got to celebrate her birthday at preschool today, and I got to volunteer. It really is so fun to hang out with all these amazing little kiddos! Here is Violet making play-doh cookies with her friend:
For how much she wants to paint at home, I'm surprised she doesn't spend all morning at the painting easels at school!
Song time! I think this was during the "If you're sad and you know it..." part of the song :)
She got to wear her special birthday crown for snack time. Later we had pink cupcakes with pink frosting and *gasp* pink sprinkles. She decorated them herself.
After school we headed down to the Stock Show with Uncle Trent. She got to take a ride on Dolly the paint pony:
And use dry-erase markers on a van (hopefully she doesn't decide to do this again on our cars with a Sharpie) - among other things like watching lots of cool animals!
No wonder she fell fast asleep on the ride home!
In other news, she wrote her NAME today!!! I am so proud of her! Funny: for the last 3 days when she says "I'm going to write my name!" she writes T O E. Those three letters are in her name, but just so funny that she really did think she was writing it! Luckily she also seemed excited that TOE spelled out a word too :)
And some more artwork. I showed her how easy it was to make a skateboard, so now all her people are skateboarding. Here she is skateboarding with her Grandpa Rich. If you knew her Grandpa Rich and how much he "loves" that all his boys skateboard, you would know just how funny this is! We're sending it to him soon!
