Belliveau Grandparents

Because we only make it up to NY twice a year, we make sure we fit as much family as possible. We had a wonderful afternoon with my grandparents, Riley had a great time filling them in on her busy world as a 4 year old.

Pizza Night

One of Riley's favorite dinners at Grandma & Grandpas house is homemade pizza. She will start talking about making pizza with Grandma a week before we drive up there, and it is always a wonderful, fun, messy meal!

Test run

It was cold out, but this did not stop RIley from testing her new scooter out. Since we did not have a white Christmas, we found other things to keep us busy outside.

Christmas with the Lyles

A very intense coloring session with great Grandma

All the boys were a wonderful audience for Riley while she opened her gifts

Great Grandpa & Grandma sure know how to find the perfect toy for Riley, this mermaid will be her best bath buddy from now on.

Riley beautiful dress was a special gift from Grandma Sherri, she is so lucky to have such wonderful Grandma's.

Aunt Lauren might have a future stamping partner, but for now I think Riley was really enjoying being the teacher and "helping" Colin learn the finer points of stamping, and color pencils

Merry Christmas!

Every 4 year old needs to always know what time it is :)

Riley loved her seriously cool gift from uncle Trevor & aunt Brittany!

Riley managed to open the rest of her gifts while staying in the sleeping bag.

Not sure how Santa possibly fit this in his sleigh, but this was the highlight of Christmas morning for miss Riley.

Ready for Santa!

Cookies,check! Stocking, check, check! Yep ready for Santa.

Official Santa cookies

As soon as we got to Grandpa & Grandma's house, Riley wanted to make her cookies to leave out for Santa.

Almost Christmas

Riley Loved her super cool sneakers from aunt Stephanie and uncle Jay!

Yep! They will fit!

Riley is so excited to have her own real cooks tools from aunt Kim and uncle Mike!

We let RIley open 2 gifts before we left for Christmas in NY. Riley is so lucky to have such wonderful, thoughtful people in her life. Thanks for such fun gifts everyone!!

Off to the playground!

It was a cold sunny morning, everyone was happy to be outside on the playground today. We had the whole place to ourselves almost all morning.

Ballet class costume

We got to watch Riley's ballet class tonight, we are really looking forward to the performance in June!

Visit with Santa

Garden of lights

Riley the butterfly

Lewis Ginter gardens all lit up

We had a wonderful night walking through the gardens full of twinkling lights, getting into the Christmas spirit.

Good listening award

Riley was very proud of herself for coming home from ballet with the good listening award.

O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree

Riley was very excited to participate in every aspect of decorating the tree this year. She even got a lift to the top for the final touch. She is so excited for Christmas, I'm not sure she will make it 25 days.