Christmas happenings! Crafts at school…
my very best card helper (truly SO grateful for her help!)…
Christmas cuties at tumble…
Sunday best…
and my Coca-Cola Santas which make me very happy!
Merry merry!
Candy House
It’s officially Christmas now that the candy house has been decorated!
This house was done 100% by the kids! I didn’t help at all!
I say it every year but…best one yet!
Gingerbread houses
Sunday I took Samantha and a friend up to decorate gingerbread houses at the club. Samantha and I were matchy matchy!
And the girls were as cute as they could be!
They worked so hard on their houses…
and I think they made some masterpieces!!
Holiday fun!
More NYC
After the Rockettes, we made our way back to Columbus Circle to go to the Barbie exhibit at the Museum of Art and Design.
It was fantastic!!
They had a big collection of original Barbies and clothes from the 1950s…the same Barbie clothes that GJ had and that Samantha now has! It was fun to see all of the clothes that GJ dressed her Barbies up in!
They also had the original Barbie Dream House that GJ also had and I used to play with at Susu’s house when I was little. We don’t have that anymore so it sure was fun to see!
They even had a life size version!
They had all sorts of Barbies from each decade and it was so fun to see how the dolls and clothes evolved.
Of course the best part was the Barbie corvette!! Love it!
Samantha looks like a real Barbie!
Just call me Midge…
Aren’t we cute?!
I’m so glad we went! We then shopped a little in Columbus Circle and then walked down Central Park South to have dinner at Sarahbeth’s. On the way we ran into my old colleague…NYC is such a small place after all!
We had a fantastic dinner….
and then we made not our wisest decision to walk down to Rockefeller Center to see the tree before heading back to the hotel. The tree was pretty but, man oh man, the crowds were overwhelming!
That night we headed back to the theater to see & Juliet! It was really entertaining and Charli D’Amelio, a Tik Tok star, was in the show which Samantha thought was cool!
Such a fun, full day! The next morning we headed to the airport two hours late and missed our flight. Yep, never in my life have I missed a flight but I got the time wrong and we departed for LGA at 8:00am when our flight actually left at 8:47am. Thankfully Delta got us on a 10:00am through Atlanta and we got back to Birmingham just a few hours later than we were supposed to.
It was a whirlwind of a weekend but totally worth it! We love NYC!
more NYC
We were up and going early Saturday morning and had a great brunch at Blue Dog Cafe. Samantha got the Pretty in Pink Pancakes! Perfect!
We then headed to Nordstrom where we did quite a bit of shopping. We even found this perfect coat for Samantha! While we wish we had seen it the day before, it was too good to pass up.
Samantha even got to get her fortune told by a giant silver pigeon. Only in NY!
Her fortune was for “glamour” and then she got to go upstairs and put the coin into a machine to get a ring.
My big city girl….
heading to Rockefeller Center!
We saw the Christmas Spectacular at Radio City and it was fantastic as always! The Rockettes are the very best and we loved hearing the Mighty Wurlitzer for Daddo!
Part 2 of day 2 tomorrow!