Christmas in Dallas 2011

I am so so behind on updating this blog but here goes. We spent Christmas in Dallas this year and had a lovely day. We started off the morning with our stockings, then our traditional Christmas coffee cake, then present opening and then hosted Troy's family for Christmas Dinner! Kendall got a ridiculous amount of gifts this year so I decided to hold several of them back for a later date. Though she loved all her gifts, the absolute favorite was the Disney Princess Pop-Up Castle given to her from Uncle Jon & Aunt Lou. Those two spoil her like crazy, but what are aunts and uncles for right. This castle has been amazing in promoting independent play. Kendall LOVES to go inside and recite all the names of the princesses: Bell, Arial, Punzle, Rella, White, Beauty, and T. She reads books in her castle, plays with her dolls and stuffed animals and puts her Fisher Price Door in the castle so she will have music and practice her dancing of course.

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Thanksgiving at Ma & Pa Lap's

Our family switches off Thanksgiving and Christmas between Texas and California. This year Thanksgiving was with the Lapachets. We had so much fun seeing family and friends. We spent Christmas Day at my Aunt and Uncles in Elk Grove and the following day with my mom's side at our house. What this equates to is two awesome and huge meals back to back plus left overs so lots of eating.

Kendall had the best time playing with Uncle Jon and Aunt Lou, dancing with Pa Lap and snuggling with Ma Lap..oh and I can't forget the star of the show Jon's beloved dog Mac who Kendall can't stop talking about. It's always so great to see my girlfriends and their kiddos and catch up on what's new in Livable Lovable Lodi!

I didn't get any photos from Thanksgiving on my camera so below are pictures from a trip to the mall. Kendall's ride in the Mickey Mouse car, pictures from the park where we visited often. I tried several times to upload two videos but I couldn't get them to post.

More Things Pumpkin and Random

Here are some additional photos of things we've been up to.
-Troy and I carved some Jack-O-Lanterns this year. We were quit pleased how they turned out.
-Kendall was given a few hand me downs from one of her friends, Sarah. She is modeling the purple hat of Sarah's. Now all we can talk about his her friend, "Shar-a".

-We went with two other families to the Arboretum the weekend of Halloween and had a great time. We got some family photos, Kendall and Troy got some photo ops in the Princess Castle, and Kendall liked petting the goats.
We got some more pictures of the kids in front of the pumpkin houses and in Cinderella's carriage which is drawn by beautiful horses made out of bushes...it is the Arboretum!

-Those pictures are of me at 20 week. We need to take more photos as I'm now 24 weeks. I had another doctors appointment yesterday. Baby Girl is doing great and I feel good except that my stomach is starting to hurt from everything growing and stretching. In a month (28 weeks), we go in for another sonogram to see how big she is and then I get to do the oh so fun glucose test!