Our Little Shepherd!

Miss A's school put on their Christmas play and her class were all Shepherds. Last year she was an Angel and did not think that a girl should be a shepherd but I explained that I was once a shepherd for my church play too and it all worked out ok as all of the parts are important to Jesus' birth. She so very much wanted to be Mary and was so jealous of the Kindergartners with their speaking parts. I love her little school and they did a great job with the kiddos! I was so proud of how well she has learned every song and really has an ear for music more than her mother. She love to play a game where we hum a tune and she picks it up right away and then she will hum a tune and it is easily to recognize.

She is extremely obsessed with Baby Jesus and the story of his birth. We have multiple books and we visited the Live Nativity again this year at DS 1st Baptist Church. She was also given her own Nativity this year by her grandmothers. I love that she is so curious and has such thoughtful questions about Jesus' life.

As her parents our goal will always be to shepherd her to learn more about growing as a child of Christ.

Family Date Night in Wimberley

We had a family date night for dinner and Christmas light in Wimberley. We tried a new cute yummy restaurant http://www.leaningpear.com/

and then headed to my favorite Christmas Lights at the Emily Ann Theater. The place is just so gorgeous!

We are finally planning to actually attend their outdoor theater this summer as they are putting on Alice in Wonderland.

My camera was not working right so the pics are fuzzy - we even took a precious family pic in Cinderella's pumpkin carriage but it didn't come out! Oh well - still great memories

Roasting hot dogs and marshmallows with a singalong Christmas Carols

Pointing to all the flags and what they mean to us

Ash is spinning under the lights at the top of the Hill

Great night of Christmas fun!

New York City Girls Trip!

Brooklyn Bridge from our Ferry boat

Some weird store on 6th Avenue

Barbie Foosball table in FAO Schwartz

Trump Towers

Sacks 5th Avenue Windows

Rockafeller Center Christmas Tree & Ice Skating

Light & Music show on the side of Sacks 5th Avenue

Snow falling over the Empire State Building

Bryant Park - Fashion Designer area

Ice Skating

ET on a Ferris Wheel inside the Toys R Us in Times Square - had to get this pic for Ash - she is obsessed with him

Times Square

Central Park

The Plaza

St. Patricks Cathedral (so beautiful and peaceful inside)

NBC Studios

I had a work conference in NYC in December and it was the perfect time to celebrate my mom's birthday with her 1st trip to the Big Apple! We had a blast! It was so fun to see mom walking around with her mouth hanging open. She just kept saying that she had heard of all of these places for years and couldn't believe she was here. We were both so worried it was going to be freezing that we over prepared and layered ourselves to death but we did look the part in our comfy boots, scarves from Tillie, hats from Somer and mom even wore her coat from Grandma.

Our hotel was beautiful and located in the middle of everything. We walked everywhere ~ down 5th Avenue to see Rockefeller Center past Tiffany's and Sacks 5th Avenue - the shop windows are so amazing ~ to Central Park ~ to Times Square and all the way back from our Ferry trip to see the Statue of Liberty. The one thing that I did not get pictures of was our visit to Broadway. We went to see the play "A Little Night Music" staring Bernadette Peters and Elaine Stritch in the cutest old theater. It was such a talented cast of actors and singers! http://www.nightmusiconbroadway.com/

I am so glad I was able to share the time with mom and I will definitely enjoy bringing Ash to shop and sightsee someday.

We both agreed that we never want to live there - it is just too crowded and too hard to see the sky but it is a wonderful exciting place to visit.