From Thanksgiving to Christmas Eve

We've had such a great holiday season. Let's catch you up!
For Thanksgiving, we went to Craig & Jennifer's. I'm sure you heard by now that Mike cooked the turkey, and it was another success! He is becoming quite the Turkey-pro. The morning of Thanksgiving started with mommy learning an important lesson.

Don't leave the bag of brown sugar too close to the edge of the counter. Somebody knows how to stand on her tippy-toes. Take a look at my sugar-baby:


She loved her HUGE meal:

All the girls:

Apparently Jillian had too much turkey:

We played some games...

And the night ended with Maddie reading Olivia a story:


We went to a few Christmas Parties. First, was the Okinawa Enlisted Spouses Club Board Member party (I'm the Secretary for the club). Olivia donned her pretty Christmas dress I bought while in America last month.

And she got a special present from Santa (even though she wouldn't go to him to get it):

The next party was Mike's work Kid's Christmas Party. We made yummy Christmas trees out of ice cream cones. And Olivia thought it was pretty cool once she figured out she could eat it!

She needed a little help getting her present from Santa:

And we took her picture again by a tree since she wore her pretty dress:

That brings us to Christmas Eve. We went to Botanical Gardens to see all the pretty lights. It was a site to see!

And Olivia enjoyed seeing it all! Here, she is standing on a train that is covered in lights:

And she got to go down a big slide with daddy:

"Weeeeeeeee" That was fun!

When she wasn't looking at the lights, she was dancing. Give this child a beat, and she will dance with just about anybody (and apparently so will the girl she is dancing with).

They even had Cinderella's carriage! When it was our turn to get in and take a picture, a little local boy decided to jump in and pose with us....oh well, Merry Christmas!

Getting some fish food:

And feeding LOTS of fish:

Pretty lights, and pretty girl:

Olivia is Nemo! She kept walking by going "Feeeeshhhh, Feeesshhh!"

Some pretty shots by the water:

This was a bridge covered in blue lights. Olivia very much enjoyed running back and forth under the lights. Can you see her?

And in case you are wondering, don't worry, we stayed warm all night walking around, even though it was a chilly 70 degrees out! ;)

Happy Holidays!