Pictures with Santa

That's right...pictures plural! Our first go round (during Thanksgiving in Ft. Worth) wasn't a huge success as you will see. It ended up being the Butler family with Santa. I would have been fine with that, however, the picture wouldn't work for our Santa frame so we had to do a re-take. The second round was much better. Kate was brave and sat on Santa's lap for about 5 minutes and when it was time for the picture, I placed Maggie on his lap for some quick picture taking. She wasn't sure, but this picture was tons better than Kate's picture with Santa when she was Maggie's age.

Christmas wishes for the Butler girls - Kate asked for a Snow White costume with a cape and she asked Santa to bring Maggie a Dora doll. Hopefully they are on the "nice" list and will get just what they wish for!:)

My Raggedy Doll

Kate's ballet class performed their winter dance for us today. Each of the "raggedy dolls" were precious and they all did a great job. I love Kate's big raggedy doll bow!!

Sucking her thumb while patiently
waiting for the music to start!

The raggedy doll is never too loud...
unlike Kate!:)

Enjoying a post-performance cookie party

Maggie couldn't be left out!

Happy Thanksgiving!

We did have a happy Thanksgiving celebrating with Mimi and PopPop and all of the Waggoners last week. In all, there were about 30 at our Thanksgiving festivities and we had a full 3 days of playing and eating.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Kate with baby Elizabeth

Kamryn was giving Kate, Mags, and Carson
a ride...nice wagon!


Mags with Great-Grandma Waggoner

Maggie and Great-Grandpa Waggoner

Kate slowed down long enough to get her
picture taken with her great grandma and
grandpa

Kate with Kamryn and her 2nd cousins Eryka
and Elyse

It was so fun to see everyone and visit. See you all again in 2 years!

Mullet No More

Poor Mags has had a reverse mullet since she started sprouting hair. For some odd reason, her hair grows on both sides but doesn't seem to make much progress in the middle. (See picture below)

Before from the front

Before from behind

Well not any more. Maggie got the star treatment at Sweet and Sassy last Wednesday and she has a big-girl haircut. She was a bit of a wiggle worm so I ended up holding her for her cut, but she posed for pictures and we have the lock of hair in her baby book. Hopefully the middle will now grow with the sides...we'll see!

Cutting the mullet off

After from the front (ignore the drool)

After from the back

Thanksgiving programs

The girls each had their Thanksgiving program at school yesterday so Ryan and I had to split up to cover both of their classes. Lucky for Ryan, he got to see both girls perform because Kate's started late and Maggie's finished quickly...probably because 1 year olds don't sing and the teachers can only entertain the parents for so long!

Ryan did take 3 pictures of Maggie in her class but that was all he could get because instead of sitting up front with her friends, she instead chose to sit in Ryan's lap for the performance!

Doing great so far

Oh no...spotted Daddy in the crowd

Performing is such hard work!

Kate, on the other hand, was a happy and willing performer. She wasn't as into it as I thought she'd be, considering she's been walking around the house for 2 weeks singing "5 Fat Turkeys," but she did participate and have a great time. You'll notice that her favorite song is the "Squirrel" song...she sings that alot around the house too!

"We slept all night in a tree"

Glammy and Papaw came to watch

"Five Fat Turkeys" song

"Squirrel" song...a class favorite

Cowgirl

The week before Halloween was Western week at school and Kate and her school friends dressed like cowboys and cowgirls, pretend roasted marshmallows in their classroom, and made trail mix for snack.

Here are a couple pictures of Kate the cowgirl:

Ready for school

Modeling her vest that she

made at school

Halloween week in review

Wow! Halloween is over and I can say that I'm glad to see it go for another year. While I love Halloween, costumes, candy, and all the fun stuff that goes along with it, I just want to know when it became a week-long plus celebration?! That said, I do feel like we got our money's worth out of the girls' costumes, they had a great week, and we ended up with lots of candy so Halloween was a success!

Hope everyone had a safe and happy Halloween! Now onto Thanksgiving or like the Tulsa radio station that's already playing "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer", onto Christmas!

(Warning: overload of pictures follow so scroll down at your own risk!!)

Family picture at Pumpkin Town - this is the

best we could do!

Maggie's 1st pony ride

Pumpkin Town

Kate and Glammy at Southern Hills'

Halloween party

Decorating a cupcake with Glammy and Nanny

Having fun at the Halloween party

Kate's costume day at school

Looking cute for school

Kate and her school friends - Kylan (UPS man),

Ty (banana), Laiken (Tinkerbell), Kate, and

Caroline (Ariel)

Halloween parade and trick-or-treat at school

Camp Cute n Spooky for Caroline R.'s

birthday party

Cleaning out her pumpkin

Maggie wasn't too sure

Maggie with her jack-o-lantern

The jack-o-lantern artists

Maggie's costume day at school

Looking cute for school

TU/SMU tailgate on Halloween day

Trick-or-treating with Caroline (Ariel) and

Caroline (Minnie)

Halloween cuties in their Halloween pjs