Dressed up

Dress up with friends

poor finley... so many girls

Longwood

we visited longwood one afternoon when dad was out of town for work.  ended up having some great weather for the afternoon

Sleeping beauty

Bowling princess birthday party

Vera went to a friend's birthday party

Snow

we had some minimal snow fall - just enough to play outside... vera actually did have fun despite the faces she is making in these pictures.

Aunt Sarah's new bathroom

we went to go check out aunt sarah's new house a while back - aunt sarah has an awesome bathroom vanity

Frozen on ice

mom and vera went to see frozen on ice, and it was pretty awesome 

marshmallow was my favorite character

NYE countdown to noon

we went to see a music concert at the queen and did a countdown to noon on NYE - happy noon year!!  we also have a new favorite band - trout fishing in america - they were awesome.

christmas with cousins

the day after christmas we visited our other cousins.  nana and grandpa were in china this year for christmas, but we visited the other raufers to celebrate the holidays

(three blonde future heartbreakers...)

Christmas grinch kebabs!

vera helped grandma make grinch kebabs

christmas at grandma's

we spent christmas day at grandma and grandpa's house

Christmas morning

coming down the stairs on christmas morning (at a very reasonable 730 am)

looks like santa delivered everything we wanted!

Santa came!

christmas eve

a family tradition continues... while growing up, the elves always visited on christmas eve and filled our stockings - and scoped out the place for santa of course!  the elves came to our house on christmas eve while we were at church.  aunt sarah also came over for christmas eve this year!

 the pez dispenser!!!!!!

Art project

very deep in thought, while painting a santa ornament

decorating christmas cookies

christmas cookie decorating party with friends 

santa brunch

ok! lots of catching up on the blog to do.  will try to do so in the next few days - so where we left off about a month ago - we had brunch with santa!  a few more pictures from that brunch below.  vera was very specific in her requests - #1 on her wishlist was a pink pez dispenser.  also she wanted math books.  and anna and elsa (disney frozen princess) dresses. done, done, and done.   

Santa brunch

Longwood garden

Checking out the Christmas displays at longwood gardens