Fun weekend... full of thanks

I got off early on Wednesday, and we had a fun afternoon. Jules and Grammy made pink cupcakes again. :-) Yay! Pinkalicious.

Thursday, we had a fun morning, and Jules took an early nap before she headed off to Daddy's house. There, she met Daddy's girlfriend, who will be moving into their house in 2 weeks. Whew! I'm praying for the kiddo! Lots of changes ahead.

Jules came back home Thursday evening and watched a bit of the Longhorn game before konking out.

Friday, we put up the Christmas tree (Jules' favorite part is the lights) and then had some fun before nap time.

Pretty much right after nap, we headed downtown to see the Parade of Lights. We went with my cousins and their kids and had a lot of fun. I'm lucky that Jules is still around 30 pounds because she spent the majority of the hour on my shoulders. :-)


Saturday morning, we headed to the mall to pick out an Angel from the Salvation Army Christmas tree. Then, we had lunch with our friends Caitie and Kelly followed by shopping for our angel.

Jules helped me and Gramps put up Christmas lights after nap time.

Pictures!

We had pictures taken. Over the last few years, I've tried to get pictures taken every 6 months or so. This is the first time we've gone to a studio to get them taken. Portrait Innovations was great. Here's a taste.

Camping

We had a fun weekend. We went camping with Aunt Mereny and Uncle Buck. They are awesome to camp with... Buck loves camping, so he pretty much does everything.



It was dark when we got there Friday night, so we didn't even know our tent was on the water until the morning.



Buck's cousin and his family were there as well... and Jules and Miss P had some fun together.

Bubbles and the park...


Jules is very lucky to have such a great aunt and uncle!
After the park, we took showers... then Jules and I headed home.
We had a fun Saturday evening at the mall with a friend of mine. Then Jules and I crashed early. We were exhausted!

Learning Fast

I don't know when kids generally learn to do these things, but Jules has started dressing herself. She can take off and put on her pants, take off and put on her socks, take off her shirt, and she's getting there on putting it on... oh... and she put her shoes on by herself yesterday. She amazes me!

Daycare is having picture day today. I'm curious how it went. She picked out her dress and let me curl her hair (2nd time ever). Her hair is getting so long. I might actually consent to a trim after the holidays.

This is the dress she picked out for pictures.

Halloween 2009

We went to our church's afternoon trunk or treat festival and then went Trick Or Treating in our familiar neighborhood. She raked it in and enjoyed every minute.

Then she enjoyed handing out candy until bed time.