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.

Christmas Cookies

Ready for Christmas to be here, we started making cookies to practice for Santa.

Happy Thanksgiving

Decided to make our own centerpiece, turned out great!

Riley wanted to help carve the turkey

I get the whole thing?

Now that's a piece of pie!

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving, just the three of us.

Fall Leaves

Riley had a great time "helping" us pick us a few of the leaves in our yard.