Christmas Eve

Christmas eve letter to Santa... and reindeer food we spread on the lawn...

 Santa arrived!....

Christmas Cookies

Typical sugar cookies with a 6 year old girl.  Pink... typical Christmas color right?

Downtown San Antonio

We took Papa downtown and went to the Tower of the Americas and took in a cold and gray San Antonio skyline.   We walked through Hemisfair Park to the Riverwalk before heading for dinner at Maggiano's for Daddy's birthday...  Just like Daddy, Papa's learning to take some great images with my camera :)

Girl Scout Christmas Party

Winter Party

Papa was here for Ella's class party.  They made reindeer art, decorated a Christmas tree treat with an ice cream cone and icing, and played a game with her classmates.

Gingerbread

This year, she did most of the gingerbread herself...  love it!

Ella's Christmas Portraits

This year, I had my own studio equipment so I did Ella's formal portraits instead of taking her to a store studio.  We also had another visit with Santa....

Our Annual Family Photos

Here are a couple of images that didn't make the Christmas Card cut...

And our annual Christmas card..... 

Uncle Lee

It's been 3 years, but finally Lee came to visit for the weekend.  Ella was over the moon to spend a weekend with her uncle and Ron, I'm sure, was happy to have his little brother around to watch the football games.  At one point they had Ella squawking and cheering too.  We did the ritual River Walk and took a drive around San Antonio, but mostly it involved the guys watching football, either here or at BJ's bar & grill.

Color Me Rad

I hate running, that is no surprise to anyone who knows me.  But I found this fun 5K 'run' that sounded too fun to pass up.  Throughout the route, they color bomb you with dyed corn starch.  You are also given packets of it and everyone is color bombing everyone.  We started out in white and ended color-tastic!  If one comes to your city, I highly recommend it!  We went with a few of our girl scout friends....