Merry Christmas! Family Photo

Merry Christmas! May the Lord bless you with peace through the holiday season and into the coming year! We love you all!

Meeting Santa and Mrs. Claus

Ava's school had a night with the Claus'. Santa and Mrs. Claus were special guests at a pizza dinner. This is the first time that Ava actually met Santa. She had been to the mall to see his helpers...but Santa came to her school and BOY!! was she excited... {in hind sight - that's probably why she was dancing around the Christmas tree! haha}


Here she is waiting her turn to meet the man in the red suit.


Taking this very serious...telling him she wants a Snow White dress and a scooter...Hope she was a good girl :)







They had a room where you could make food for the reindeer...Well, of course we made a stop. We definitely want the reindeer to find us on Christmas!






Ava and two of her teachers...Ms. Lindsey and Ms. Sadie


Ava and her main teacher...Ms. Jen


Then, finally, one last stop to finish this fun night... PiZzA

Christmas Tree 2011

This year espcially, Christmas seemed to come WAY too close to Thanksgiving! I can't believe it's time to get the tree and decorations up. I do love this time of year...and I think I've passed that love on to Ava...





This is what happens when an almost 4 year old is excited while you're trying to take pictures...

Happy Thanksgiving

We spent a nice family filled Thanksgiving close to home this year. It was a quiet blessing and we hope that your family enjoyed a time to reflect on what a truly amazing world we live in.





Lily is watching intently...just in case...

Ava even helped me make the salad.




Getting a "happy" from Aunt Nancy and Uncle Mark-




And all that turkey = pooped out!



On Friday night, we had the gang over to celebrate Grandma's birthday. Ava topped the night off with entertainment...a fashion show!

Trick or Treat

We hope you all had a fun and safe Halloween!

Love, The Bumble Bee Butterfly

Red October

Immediately following the Rams game, we raced over to the baseball stadium to watch the National Championship parade. We weren't the only ones with that idea...there were TONS of people trying to get from the dome to the stadium. We rode the train and had to wait through 2 trains before finally squeezing in.


At the stadium we found this sea of red -


People were lined up and down the streets, literally 10 rows deep...this town LOVES it's baseball... they even sold tickets for inside the stadium.


Our friends arrived VERY early and got us all a great spot!






There was an energy in the air that I can't describe in words. It was truly electric. While waiting for the parade to make its way around to the stadium, we had a fun police officer really working the crowd... She would point to one side of the street and say "WORLD" then point to the other side and say "CHAMPS"...it went on like this up and down the street. She even tried to get us started in a "wave". HaHa...it was so much fun.


It was a LONG wait until we saw those first players.



And then...They came... Tony LaRussa leading it off


Followed by the trophy


Fredbird


The rally squirrel


Then each player followed in a truck, surrounded by their family.

go RAMS go

Ava had a fun football adventure. This was her second game but probably the one we'll count as her "FIRST".

Let's just say that Rams football is not the hot ticket this year.

In fact, I don't think they've won a game this season :( BUT, that doesn't matter to us...we like to go for the experience.

Experiences like Brats outside the dome:



Experiences like being silly, because that's what 3 year olds do!


Experiences like family time...


Unexpected experiences like seeing the WORLD SERIES WINNERS, the St. Louis Cardinals. And, the WORLD SERIES trophy :)
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But most of all...we went to bring them good luck...THE RAMS WON!!!