Powdery goodness!

Earlier this month while we were at the house in Texas I gave Emme Claire some powdered donuts for breakfast. It was her first time eating them and she loved them! As you can see from the pics I took. :)

A special new suitcase!

One day earlier this month we went shopping in Monroe and we checked out a new childrens boutique called The Silver Spoon. They had a lot of cute stuff. This is what Emme Claire found and couldn't leave without. :)

The Grinch Musical

When I saw that The Grinch Musical was going to be in Houston this December I knew we had to take Emme Claire to see it! Brian and I had seen it in New York City a few Christmas's ago and we both loved it! So we got the best tickets they had left! Orchestra row 4 aisle seats! Our view was perfect!! The show was about 80 minutes long and so we were very worried she would not want to sit still that long and pay attention but we were very pleasantly surprised! She sat through the whole thing in amazement and wonder! She LOVED it!!! I've never seen her clap as hard as she did at the end of each song performance. And she would point and make faces and she says the Grinch says "Grrr!" haha! She thinks he is mean and doesn't remember that he turned nice at the end. I bought her the stuffed animals Grinch and Max. She loves Max (the dog) but she doesn't want much to do with The Grinch. Max is her new sleeping buddy.
They didn't allow pics in the theater so I only snapped 2 with my cell phone. I took some pics outside after the show. The theater was in downtown Houston in the theater district at the Hobby Center.

Here she is waiting for the show to start holding her Playbill.


Here is how the stage looked while the curtain was down before the show began.


Here she is after the show outside the Hobby Center.






Emme Claire and Daddy after the show




My favorite part of the Grinch story is when the Grinch hears the Who's down in Whoville singing with hands joined and he says...
It came without ribbons. It came without tags.
It came without packages, boxes or bags.
And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore.
What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store?
What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more?

2010 Christmas Card

Merry Christmas from The Murphy Family!


And Happy New Year!!!

Gingerbread House Outfit & Santa

I made this appliqued shirt for Emme Claire to wear this holiday season. She's worn it once so far and it was really cute on her.



I also made a matching pair of ruffle pants. :)


She had her Santa pic made in it. Her Texas Santa pic that is. I'm in the picture because she wouldn't be in it alone. She cried when I sat her beside him. Poor thing. This Santa was at the Gaylord Texan hotel in Grapevine, TX, more on that trip to come in a later post.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

So the day after Thanksgiving we started decorating for Christmas. That is the tradition I'm going to try to start (decorating the day after Thanksgiving and not before). So instead of getting up at the crack of dawn (or before actually) to go shopping in all the crowds we stayed home and had a relaxing day and put up the tree and began to decorate it and the mantle too.

Emme Claire saw me fluffing the limbs on the tree and wanted to help. She tried her best to help me. :)




This is how my mantle looked before I hung the stockings and put the stocking holders up. I had to change it when I added the stocking because all this wouldn't fit anymore but I sure did like it like this. But you can't go without the stockings.


Emme Claire's 2nd Christmas ornament. We are collecting the whole series. We love Hallmark ornaments!


Here is my almost finished tree. My husband hasn't found the box that has all my keepsake ornaments in it yet. That is making me nervous but I know it's somewhere! Just got to keep looking!






Here is my mantle after putting the stockings up. They read Amy, Brody, Brian, Bella, Emme Claire and Asher, that includes our 3 dogs. :)

Jonesboro Christmas Parade 2010

We took Emme Claire to her first parade the Saturday after Thanksgiving in Jonesboro (our home town). She enjoyed it, she Ooohed and Aaahed over everything she saw. :) Brian's parents met us and watched the parade with us.















This is the niece of my best friend Bridget. Her name is Sarah and she is on the homecoming court of a local high school. Her aunt (my friend) Bridget helped with the decorating of her parade car. Doesn't Sarah look beautiful?!!!


The front of the car. Bridget did a great job decorating it!


The back of the car. It was so pretty!


Emme Claire with her 2 ducks she "caught" during the parade. She wouldn't let go of those ducks! That's Grammy holding her (Brian's mom).


Here is Grammy, Emme Claire and I yelling for them to throw something to us! Emme got lots of beads and candy!


The day of the parade was also Grammy's birthday so Emme Claire brought her present to the parade. Here she is helping Grammy open it. :)