Grace got to go see her very first movie in a theatre tonight. She was SOOOO excited! Nana, Mama and Grace (or in her words "just us girls") went to see "the Princess and the Frog" which turned out to be really cute. Great music and a sweet story (I only cried once...darn that romantic lightning bug who finally gets to be with his true love.) I am always disappointed that Disney seems to feel the need to bring in some really evil stuff (scary voodoo and evil spirits in this one!) in all of their princess movies (Cinderella is the only exception that I have found.)I mean, c'mon Disney, your target age group is 3-7 year old girls, you could definitely tone down the scary stuff and they wouldn't miss it a bit! During the scary parts Grace decided that she needed to go potty so she wouldn't have to watch (proof that she is her father's daughter). She was so good,and watched the whole thing without talking. Whenever the other little kids laughed and talked she would get this frustrated face and say "why are they talking? People won't be able to hear the movie!" (proof that she is MY daughter!) Grace's favorite part? The "cool chairs." Overall a great experience and further proof that my girlie is growing up way to fast.


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First, for those of my friends and family that usually just view this blog in email format, you will want to go to hallam4.blogspot.com to view the actual blog as this post contains a slide show and some videos. I can't believe how much has happened since I last blogged! I guess it has only been a month but during the holiday season a lot gets packed into that small amount of time! We had a great Thanksgiving with all of our friends and family (22 people, 37 lbs of turkey and 16 pies consumed- the turkey and pies not the people. Noah had a great birthday. I can't believe that he is 2 years old! Mema and Papa gave him a bouncer (Grace calls it a "jumprine"..I guess like trampoline?) so the kids had a lot of fun on that. Noah usually loves them, but he was nervous, perhaps because he isn't used to seeing this big thing in our backyard, so he chose to watch from the outside. He thoroughly enjoyed eating Doritos and laughing at the other kids while they jumped. Noah is in to "Geotrax" (a train/car/plane system) in a big way. Our living room is filled with all of the tracks that he got from his birthday and the early Christmas we celebrated with my Dad's side of the family. We have been doing lots of Christmas baking, and a few days ago we had our annual gingerbread house party. Katelyn made an elaborate Victorian house that blew all of the others out of the water as usual. Steve made a gingerbread surfboard which he intends to submit a picture of to his surfing magazine (just don't include your age Steve!) The next morning the kids made their houses which turned out super cute.
More photos of the houses to come, they are still on my camera :)
Tonight was Grace's Christmas pageant at church. She was a sheep. I had a cute sweater and leggings picked out for her to wear, but Nana and Mema bought a poofy dress and I got out-voted. Grace, of course, loves the dress and says it looks JUST like a sheep.


I am looking forward to Christmas next week, and I promise to do a better job keeping up with the pictures and videos so all of our family can be included in our holiday.