My little artist and my little man!!

They other day Lillian was playing with her new doodle thing and she drew this really cool picture. I asked her what she had drawn and she said they were ghosts. I thought she had done a really good job at drawing ghosts, so naturally I had to take a picture. See if you can see the ghosts too. :)

A couple of days later, Preston was just being so cute. I had to take a couple pictures. He also started trying to walk. I took a couple of videos but then he wouldn't take any steps. Oh well, he still looked really cute. I can't upload the video's so this will have to suffice. 

Rose Parade 2010

This year my mom, Lillian and I went to see the Rose Parade floats. It has been a yearly tradition for almost every year. We love it and I love that I am able to pass on this tradition to Lillian. She loves looking at all the floats. Her favorites are the ones with animals. Even though she is totally capable of walking, we park quite a distance away and the rose parade floats are quite long, so Lillian rode in the stroller. She did like walking part of the time but when she got tired it was nice to have the stroller there for her to ride in. Of course there are a ton of pictures because there are lots of floats and so much on them that you just can't capture with one picture. We all really had a great time, even though I lost my mom and Lillian for about 15 minutes. Which at the time was nerve racking and frustrating, but thankfully we found each other. :) Hope you enjoy all the pictures. Going to view the floats every year is one of my favorite things to do to bring in the New Year!! The pictures where we are posing are the ones that were our favorites. We had a couple this year that were our favorites, but by the time we got to the other ones it was later in the day and there were too many people around.

The jungle themed one shown above and below was one of Lillian's and my favorite. It was so amazing to see  up close. Lillian loves monkey's, of course. We must have spent 10 minutes or more looking at it.

Lillian admiring the gorilla float. When I said she loved, I meant it. LOLThis was another of our favorites, again because of the animals and how real they looked. Plus the floral display was breathtaking. 

This one was another of our favorites. The ocean animals looked so real. Lillian and Grandma loved this one too. I loved how they used real Christmas trees on this float. It brought life to the float. The next few floats were so beautiful. The Boy Scouts Of America did this one. They did a fantastic job too.Lillian loved the Panda Bear. This was our other favorite. It had a working dog sled. The people inside the little house would put the dogs on the sled and then they would slide down the ramp. I had to put Lillian on my shoulders so she could watch it because there were SO many people there we couldn't get close enough for her to see. Before that I literally held my camera over my head so that I could get these great shots without too many heads. LOL!!! Lillian and I loved the girl dog, she wore a tutti. So hilarious!! After they were done. They had the dogs walk around to their trailer and Lillian was able to see them up close, briefly before everyone else spotted them.  Origami Dragon. So stinking cool!!I loved the ship only because coming out of the port holes were little sea creatures. This guy was seriously tall!!!

The bird float was pretty cool too. Lillian and my mom seemed to really enjoy it too.