12 dates for 2011

1. dinner at Taverna in dallas
2. Omni
3. horseback riding
4. mainstreet arts festival in fort worth
5. camping trip to Lake Ray Roberts
6. outdoor concert
7. speedzone
8. frisco RoughRiders game
9. dancin' at Billy Bobs
10. Public ArtWalk in dallas
11. barnes and noble open mic night
12. snow tubing

merry christmas!

a few highlights of the holiday season:

max "performs" at his MDO program. he sang "jingle bells" and he cried "we wish you a merry Christmas".
hanging out watching elf while daddy makes our snowman pancakes.we used this cute advent sticker sheet to count down to christmas. max loved putting the star stickers on each night.
showing off a few of our fun gifts/dates.

max received many cars!

what a big kid...

with a cute bow butt!

the big 3-0!

on december 8th, i turned 30. weird. that's all i can say about it. i find much joy in my last 30 years and am happy with where my life is, yet it is still a sad thing to say goodbye to your 20's. i mean so much happened then. college, marriage, a kid. and even though i know the next decade will be filled with so many blessings, i can't help but feel weird about the big 3-0!

we began our celebrating at my moms house. this picture makes me laugh!
since we had gone on a cruise in november for my birthday, i didn't think i would have a "party", but when i thought about celebrating with this special friend (we've shared our birthday celebration for 5 of the past 7 years) i couldn't help but want to celebrate with a yummy dinner in dallas.

after dinner, some of us walked around highland park and came across this dude....the creepiest santa i have ever had the pleasure to meet. we smiled sweetly nonetheless.

but when the lap sitting turned into hand rubbing and knee bouncing we knew it was time to say "to all a goodnight!"

a progression of pictures

i had to get our little 2 year old to pose for a pic in one of his new outfits.

looking at the progression made me smile.