Let's get caught up, shall we?

Yes, I know I've been away for a bit. So, as you can imagine, we've taken at least 1,000 pictures since the photo card fail. Here's a few for your entertainment. And because you really can't ever have enough Lily cuteness in your day, can you? I do wonder when Blogger is going to cut me off, though.

Not yet apparently.

Let's start with Thanksgiving. It turned out that it was just the three of us for Turkey Day so we went back to Bon Appetit, location of our wedding reception. They had a special buffet upstairs in the same room, and we saw Nancy, our coordinator. Cool!

It was a little crowded, though, and when Khan leaned in for a picture, Lily leaned in and posed. Cute!


As usual, Lily loved all the food. The chocolate pie was a definite hit.
After we ate, we went out to the park by the restaurant. She went down the slide once on my lap. Then Khan tried to take her down.

Nope. Little Miss Independent wanted to go by herself.

There was no helping her get up to the slide, either. She'd just flap your arm away and growl at you.

She liked to go down the slide backwards. Feet first, at least.

She loved the slide.Last Friday we tried to visit Santa. He came to a holiday open house in our community. She did not look thrilled to meet him.

We went in for a closer look.

Death grip. She just shook her head and said "no no no." So, we'll wait til next year on that one.

But she did get her very first cheese puff. Yum.

Then we went to see Ice in Orlando. It sounded pretty cool -- a couple million pounds of ice carved and sculpted to look like the North Pole. It's at a convention center in Orlando, and they keep the place at 9 degrees. Yes, 9 degrees in Florida.

Sounds intersting right?

Well, let's just say we were underwhelmed. It's going to take more than cold to impress me.

But since most Floridians don't own winter gear, they hand out parkas to anyone who needs one.

Lily in her parka was the highlight of the whole event. I honestly don't know when I laughed so hard. I couldn't stop laughing. Look at my poor baby in her "toddler" parka.

She can't find her hand either. At least she couldn't take her hat off, I guess?

She did enjoy looking at it, though. She was impressed by the colors and the lights.

And the ice tunnel was pretty neat. But next year, we'll just wait for Wisconsin to see some ice.


Speaking of Wisconsin, check out this sign. Quality Christmas trees from Wisconsin. We have your trees. Ha!