Christmas Pictures

Okay, so I know it's too early to be discussing Christmas, but since I am ever the planner, I had her Christmas pictures taken today. We had three outfits: her Christmas dress, her Christmas day outfit (which is reminiscent of her family's Scottish tartan) and her Halloween costume. So here are the highlights:

Boo!

We went to the annual Boo at the Zoo today. It was a little strange that it fell after Halloween, but we were all still in a festive mood. Marina decided to be a snow princess this year. And as luck would have it, an identical snow queen costume was also available. When Marina asked me what I would be for Halloween (I haven't dressed up in years!) she decided we should match.

As per tradition, we went to the zoo with Cameron and Aunt Ann. Cam was dressed in a Special Forces costume. How cure they looked with him in black and Marina in white! It was a beautiful day, although it was a bit muddy after last week's snow and subsequent melt down.

Today's focus wasn't about the animals (Marina did insist on seeing the zebras and giraffes), it was about the candy. Since it was the last day of Boo at the Zoo festivities, many of the vendors were obviously wanting to rid themselves of as much candy as possible. Some of them put huge handfuls into the kids' bags. The result was Marina had a bag of candy she could barely lift!

Princess Profile

Last year I carved our pumpkins to look like Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty. Marina just loved them!This year Marina wanted to help carve the pumpkins. She mostly helped clean out the insides. Just like last year, we decided to pick two more Disney Princesses to put on the pumpkins. We each chose our favorites: I chose Belle and she picked Jasmine.

Snow Day

We had a snow day today - sort of.

Marina's school is on Fall Break this week. (Where was Fall break when I was in school?) So when we got the snowstorm this week, she was already out of school. I had decided in advance to take today off to spend with her. We had more than 8 inches where I live. Today the great melt down began. So it was warm outside and the gutters were filled with rivers of melted snow. Marina had a ball!


While we were outside, I snapped a few pictures of her in her Halloween costume. After all, she is going to be a snow princess. What better backdrop could I ask for?

THANK YOU!

I am so overwhelmed by the support Marina got during the "Fairest of Them All" contest. Marina's Snow White picture ended up with 78 votes. That was enough to put her in the top 200 out of over 6,000 entries! That's an amazing result.

The pictures are still visible, but you can no longer vote. The highest vote getter had over 5,000. I have no idea how that is possible, but I don't think it was anywhere as cute as Marina's pictures. :-)

The winner of the Disney World trip will be chosen by the lovely folks at Disney. So we could still get a prize.

But I think we're already winners - thanks to our wonderful friends!

Picture This!

Since we had the matching Giselle dresses, I decided Marina and I should have our pictures taken together. So, here we are:

Of course, the best pictures were of her:

One more to vote for

Thank you to all of you who have voted for Marina's pictures. It's so fun for me to see the count grow!

I added one more picture to the site. I wanted at least one to have her full "Princess Story" attached. Unfortunately, I can't add the story after upload is complete. :-(

Tea for Two
http://family.go.com/princess-picture-contest/who-is-the-fairest/tea-for-two-17428/