Jessica poses with Santa Claus

Finally, Jessica decided to sit on Santa's lap and she told him that she wants a Sleeping Beauty doll.

fun at holiday lights festival

Jessica had lots of fun at the holiday lights festival in Gilroy. She went with her friend Leilani. Here are the two of them posing in front of the lit candy canes (lit candy canes seem to be the hit of the season).



Jessica and Leilani had lots of fun riding the rides in the dark. Photos from the strawberry ride are while the ride is stopped. You couldn't actually see the girls while the ride was in motion hardly as they are so short.



Here they are waiting for their turn on the park's version of Disneyland's tea cups. This ride leads to lots of giggles.



Jessica rode the firetruck with her mittens on. The last point is very important to her.



And, it wouldn't have been right without at multiple horsey rides either.



The park had an ice skating rink, so Jessica did skate-skate-skate (like Mickey Mouse) with her Daddy.





Jessica was very excited to see the Snoopy show the park put on. She even got to dance with Lucy.



And, when it was time for the light show, Mom got snookered into buying Jessica a princess wand, which looks amazingly like a sword. Jessica was really pleased with it.

a morning at the children's museum

This past weekend, we took Jessica to the children's museum as the forecast was all rain. She hadn't been in about a year and really had a good time playing there.

She finally has mastered the coin rolling exhibit. She can put the coin in track and let it go. Then, she watches it roll and roll around.



The water play area is still big for her.



She let me paint her face at the face painting station.



And she built tunnels with the big blocks.



Jim also had fun taking photos in the bubble station.

morning hair

Don't you just love the unruly poof of hair that comes after a blissful night of sleep?

some family photos

Back in November, we took some family photos. Here are just a few from that photo shoot.

A Thanksgiving Recap

A bit late, but the Thanksgiving photos have finally been processed. Here is a recap of our time in Indiana.

On Thanksgiving evening, we took family photos (whole family and just our family) in front of the Christmas tree.




Jessica modeled various Christmas outfits while in Indiana. Of course, we could not get her to sit on Santa's lap in any of her Christmas outfits. She wants nothing to do with him it seems.



This is Jessica in her "princess" nightgown that her Mimi made her. She pretty much pranced around in this the entire time we were in Indiana. She always wanted to wear it.



She also enjoyed reading her princess books and watching hours and hours of Mickey Mouse (the same episode over and over again).




And, she had lots of fun playing trains and farm with Papa.