Teddy Bear Tea

We've been working on renovations for the house...so sorry for the lack of the catching up on posts.

We have gone to the Teddy Bear tea the last two years at the Royal Sonesta. We loved staying there and definitely will be a tradition to come for many years hopefully! I work so much the months of Oct and Nov so I love to make up time with the girls by doing a ton of fun stuff for Christmas. It is my absolute favorite time of year! If you are in the area during Christmas check out the Teddy Bear too! It's toooo cute! The girls LOVE it!

They have a million trees decorated all the way down the corridor. They are so beautiful and smell sooo good!



The nutcracker.

One of the girls FAVORITES the snow princess. They are in AWE of her! She was outside ready to greet us! She would get them to SWOOSH their skirts with her every time they saw her for the rest of the tea! (Which of course the girls thought they were just HOT STUFF with her!!!)

During the tea.

Amelia and her teddy bear she got.

LOVE this one!

Abigail with her teddy bear!

Watching the parade come in of the trumpteer, Santa Claus, Mrs. Claus, Rudolph, the Snow Princess, and Frosty the Snow Man.

SOO EXCITED!

Frosty

Rudolph

I love this one of Abigail looking up at him!

We didn't go take pics with Santa Claus before the tea. We had seen Santa sooo many times by this time and we were worried the questions were going to start coming. At the end of the tea Santa came up to the girls and spent a GOOD 10 minutes talking to them! They were in AWE of him and just talked and talked to him! Here is Abigail giving him a BIG hug!

Mrs. Claus with the girls. She comes and sits with all the kids and reads them The Night Before Christmas. She is GREAT with the kids and gets them to interact with her as she is telling the story. This is after singing songs with her.

Me and the girls.

After the tea we walked around downtown. It was chilly so I didn't get pics while we were out and about, but did get some of them in the courtyard.

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Celebration in the Oaks

The one place that will always make me go AWWWWW. .....Celebration in the Oaks. Brian and I got engaged there 9 years ago on Dec. 30th 1999. We have been every year since (except the year of Katrina) and wouldn't miss it. Now we love taking the girls there. It's still not the same as it was before Katrina, and they don't have the carriage rides that Brian proposed to me in...but I have faith one day they will. I can't wait for the day that we can take them in a carriage ride there and them TRULY understand the story of daddy proposing to Mommy. They KIND OF get it now...But at the moment Abigail will tell you she is marrying Daddy! :)

We used to spend more time walking around and enjoying the lights..now we spend more time in the Storyland playground and the rides!

This year while we were at the Royal Sonesta we took the girls.... It was COLD that night!

The big Alligator Santa.

My two princesses in their carriage. (we have this pic from every year and their 3rd birthday!)

Amelia Going down the dragon slide that is SUPER fast.

Abigail in her castle.

In Jonah's belly.

She posed like this and told me to take a pic...UH OH do I have posers FINALLY on their own??? I usually have to beg or bribe! :)

Well at least one of them likes to pose. Gotta love my dear Abigail who gets sooo tired of me taking pics. I guess I don't blame her!

Sleeping Beauty

Abigail checking her out.

Abigail tap dancing for us...HILARIOUS!!! There was music playing and she told us to back up on the grass bc this was her stage and she began tap dancing. Doing her arms and everything. It was ADORABLE!!! We were cracking up!

Yummy Hot Choclate to warm us up!

They look so grown up to me! Where did my little babies go in their wagon the first year we took them? Now they are running all over the place!

Motorcycle girl. She loves motorcycles....

Thumbs up! They loved these and they went up pretty high!

Truck drivers!

We rode the train and the girls loved it... Here is me and Abigail.

Daddy and Amelia on the train!

Amelia on the train!

Thumbs up from Amelia!

My favorite the Carousel.

True smile from Abigail!

I hope you girls love Celebration in the Oaks as much as your daddy and I do! It will definitely hold a special place in our heart and hope it does yours too!

Cafe Beignet

We went to eat at this outside Cafe called Cafe Beignet the first morning we were there. It was super yummy and the girls had a blast feeding the birds that were everywhere.

Yummy Applejuice.

Yummy choclate milk.

GO EAGLES

We went to the New Orleans bowl... We only made it to half time, bc the girls got silly tired!

Here are a few pics..we where we were sititng there weren't many people so we had a ton of room for them to move around.

Fulton Street

While staying at the Royal Sonesta we went to Fulton St. It was reather a little disappointing, but we were going to the USM game afterwards. I had to put their USM cheerleading outfit under their dresses bc it was so cold that night. We took off their dresses right before we took pics with Santa.

I LOVE this picture with Santa.

The snow was bubbles.... kind of disaapointing after the real snow....

Mom and the girls.

Waiting for the snow.