Poinsetta tree in the lobby.
The lights outside were beautiful.
The magnolia trees in the background were completely covered with white lights.
Nana and Papa taking a stroll through the lights.
This is the manger scene out on the lawn. They had the story of Jesus' birth playing.
We took a carriage ride through the Christmas lights at the Opryland Hotel.
Elle gives her approval.
Dean has to be silly too.
Nana and Papa Branam.
Dean loves his t-ball gizmo.
Elle showing off her horse's crown.
Elle posing with her hat.
Cooper was worn out from the festivities.
Nana with the Klueppelberg grandkids.
Elle and her new pony.
Dean picked himself out some gold teeth for Christmas.
Posing with presents.
Another one of Dean's picks....... the grossest ball he could find. (And that's Elle holding it)
After the party, Dean and Elle really got into the snow.
Elle blowing out her candles.
Mama, Nana, and Elle doing crafts.
Here's our snow! We had a snow party. I ordered this powder that makes a substance that looks and feels like snow. We filled our pool with it and the kids enjoyed.
The 1st snow kinda came early this year. It was beautiful. The flake were really big!
The pirate and the princess out trick or treating and stuffing their faces with potato chips.
Dean took this picture of her.
Pony rides at Pumpkinfest.
We met my friend Rainer and her kids (Ava on the left) at Pumpkinfest. The kids wore costumes and trick or treated down the streets. Here, they are painting pumpkins.
Elle loved her pony ride. She is way into horses right now.... and princesses. I think that's Santa is disguise behind us :)
Our small group met out at the pumpkin patch for family day.
Clair and Elle. This is Elle's sweet friend Clair. Their ballet class does a little performance for the parents for halloween. All the girls dress in their costumes.
Elle got a treat afterwards.
Right when the teacher brought her out, she was a little shy. She brought them out one by one and they all blew us a kiss. At first she didn't do much but by the 2nd song she got the hang of it. I videoed most of it with my camcorder but I got some with the digital camera (below). What I got on the digital camera is really just her standing there. So the movie below is not action packed! -but still cute!
Dean was "Jack be Nimble" for Land of Nursery Rhymes Day at preschool. They all had to recite the nursery rhyme they chose. Very cute!
Here are Dean's 2 big school buddies. Noah (left) was "Hickory Dickory Dock" and Nicholas (right) was "Humpty Dumpty".
More kids in his class- (from left) Kyla was "Mary had a Little lamb", Ava did "Jack and Jill", then there's Nicholas, Adrian was a "king's men" in "Humpty "Dumpty", Lilly Anna did "1 lttle 2 lttle 3 lttle indians". There are a few that aren't in the pic.
