Perry's Many Faces

I took a few shots of Perry today in this adorable lace romper I got for her birthday. Of course this is the first time she's wearing it. I changed my favorites to black & white. As you can see, I had a lot of favorites.

Chinese Lantern Festival

I bought a Groupon a while back for the Chinese Lantern Festival. It was in Dallas at Fair Park. I have to say it was pretty cool. Lots of things to look at which kept the kids' attention. The only down side is that we went through the whole exhibit in 30 minutes. It was so cold that we didn't want to linger at any one thing. It was still pretty neat.

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Party for Perry

Since one of Perry's nicknames is Sweetsie Pie, I decided to capitalize on that & have a pie party for her birthday. Everything turned out great.

 We had lemon meringue, salted caramel apple, triple chocolate pumpkin & pecan pies in mason jars. We also had 2 dozen fried pies in assorted flavors.

Periwinkle is 1!

My little gal turned 1 today! It was very low key. Just me & the kids at the house. Lane worked all day. My parents did come over at night to celebrate New Year's with us. Which means, my mom made onion dip. Yum! Here are a few pics. I'm sure there will be many pictures exactly like this in her future.

Perry's Stats:

Weight--18 lbs 1 oz--23%

Height--30.25 in--86%

Head--44.5 cm--38%

Holidays Around the House

As soon as we got home from New Zealand, I rushed around doing some crafting for Christmas. I wanted to get our decorations up ASAP. I'm very pleased with how they turned out. Example 1-sign on the mantle. So basically I used Liquid Nails to glue 6 30" boards together. Then I sanded them. Next I put vinyl lettering on, followed by stain. I then removed the vinyl letting the natural grain show through.

 Love the look of greenery. I bought 5 fresh cut wreaths & put candles in the middle.

 Love this sign! Got an engineer print from Staples, backed it on some burlap & trimmed it with ribbon.

 

One morning I made the kids snowman donuts for breakfast.

 

Pawpaw stopped by for a visit. We were so happy to see him. Perry met him for the first time.

 Christmas eve we had reindeer root beer.

 

I just had to throw this last picture in here. They are so cute!

Marionette Show

Lane's mom & Hunter took Elliot & her cousin Susie to a marionette show. Elliot has never seen anything like it before. She was mesmerized. The play was "The Little Drummer Boy". She said her favorite character was the sheep.

North Pole Express

Lane's mom told us about the North Pole Express in Grapevine & we all got tickets. It was pretty fun. We had a short train ride and a little show afterwards. Elliot ate it up.