Christmas at the Zoo

 One of my most favorite holiday traditions is to attend Christmas at the Zoo!  I love seeing it all lit up and enjoying the magic of the holiday!

 We were joined by Grandma and Grandpa Fox, Aunt Cyndi and Grandma Abbott

 Petting the sharks!

 Cara's favorite part is going to the North Pole and decorating a cookie with Mrs Claus

 The hot chocolate was quite a hit on this chilly night!

Our night ended with a fun holiday themed Dolphin show!

Jazz Band performance at the Artsgarden

 Cyndi (not pictured, Grandma Fox (not pictured) and Grandma and Grandpa Abbott came to see the performance!

Scott's jazz band came down to Indy to perform a Christmas concert in the Artsgarden at Circle Centre Mall!  What a great performance!  I am so grateful that a nurse at work stayed over for me so I could go and watch the performance!!

St Vincent Christmas Gala

 We got all dressed up to go to my work Christmas party at the JW Marriott downtown!

 We went with our friends Gigi and Matt!

 I was expecting the Grand ballroom to look fancier,  but here are a couple of shots of the inside of the room

 It was a nice evening, with good food, good drinks and some interesting music choices!  However, the best part of the night was following the IU/Kentucky game on our phone and watching IU win in glorious fashion!!

Christmas Under the Stars Parade

 Daisy was "thrilled" to model her Santa hat for this photo

 We went to Brownsburg's Christmas Under the Stars Parade, what a fun night!  it was chilly but we dressed warm and brought blankets to cover our laps!

Scott felt like the parade was literally from "the Christmas Story", but we had fun and enjoyed the town's kick-off to the Christmas season

Thanksgiving with the cousins

We celebrated Thanksgiving with the Fox family at my parents house. My brothers, their families, and my grandmother were on hand to enjoy a great feast. I barely took out my camera but did manage to grab a quick pic of all the cousins in between their play time.

Cara is going to be a Big Sister

So apparently if you want to get pregnant you need to have a garage sale and sell ALL of your baby stuff and voila! That is what happened to us! Something we have hoped and prayed for ever since we had Cara has finally came true, we are expecting Baby #2!

We waited until Thanksgiving Day when I was 11 weeks to tell Cara and our families!  What a thing to be thankful for that day!!  Here I am showing Cara was her t-shirt says! (Cara was over at Aunt Cyndi's with Grandma and Grandpa Abbott for the morning while I slept since I had worked all night, we went over there and told Cara we had a special Thanksgiving shirt for her to wear and took her to the bedroom and shared this very special moment with her!)

At first she didn't really understand what it meant!

And then PURE delight!  The first thing she said was "all of my dreams have come true"

What an amazing Big Sister she will be!!
The baby is due June 14, 2012!  We have lots of shopping to do before then since we don't have any baby essentials anymore, but it is well worth it!

Kindergarten Thanksgiving Feast

The day before Thanksgiving the kindergarteners at Cara's school held a feast resembling the first feast with the Pilgrims and Indians. Cara's class were Indians.

I was glad I was able to join in the fun

Cara's desk with her costume ready for the feast

Her class with her teacher Mrs Medley.  They are holding up placemats that they made

The feast (which was food they had spent the morning preparing) included corn bread, vegetable soup, applesauce, popcorn, pumpkin pie, apple juice and milk!

My little Indian had a great time at the feast!

New American Girl Doll

Grandma Fox took Cara to our Christmas bazaar and let Cara buy some raffle tickets for an American Girl Doll. They had been selling the raffle chances after church but Scott said there was no way she would win so he would not spend the money to buy the tickets. Cara proved him wrong! She even wrote her name by herself on each ticket.

So we were quite surprised to get the phone call that she WON Marie Grace.   She is one lucky little girl!

Halloween 2011

We were blessed with a beautiful Halloween night! We started the evening off by having everyone over for dinner. Grandma and Grandpa Abbott came to town, Aunt Cyndi came over and Grandma and Grandpa Fox came to take in the festivities with us!

Cara dressed as Cinderella Bride!

Cara with her bestie Grace

Running for trick or treating, so much fun!

Grace's little sisters were cute little sheep!

Aunt Cyndi carved her pumpkin while waiting on trick or treaters!  Thanks for Grandma Fox, Aunt Cyndi and Grandma Abbott for manning the bowl of candy while we were out hitting up the neighborhood!