The Festival of Trees

Today we went to "The Festival of Trees" at the Hilton Garden Inn here in Champaign. Evie and I went with Hope and John Michael. Although we loved all of the tree designs, it wasn't a great place for the kids.. well.. not OUR kids, at least LOL They wanted to touch everything and of course everything is NOT meant to be touched... I can't tell you how many times I had to scold Evie.. I always feel bad for scolding her for doing things that is natural for a kid to want to do.. but with all of the delicate things there that could break.. I just knew that if I didn't have a firm grip on her, something was coming down. Our favorite tree was the Minnie Mouse design as seen pictured above.. I love the reds! Evie and I both loved the "tea cup tree". I don't think that was what they called it but it's what Evie called it. She wanted to have a tea party so bad! Of course, the big suprise was that downstairs was Santa and Mrs. Claus! There was no waiting to see them and Evie couldn't wait anyway! She had to tell Santa that she wanted "12 Dancing Princesses!" (She has the movie so everything she wants this year revolves around that) There was a "Kids Zone" next to Santa's chair for the kids to make hats and letters to Santa but there were field trips galore there.. the schools took up all of the table space.. there's no way we could have participated.. which was fine with us.. the kids just wanted to run and play at that time so we took them to the mall play area to run it off.
We saw our friend, Audrey and her husband there with their new 2 day old baby boy and their little girl Zoey. Then we ate lunch and did a little shopping.. and then I took Evie to Kohl's so she could pick out her Christmas dress and accessories for pictures we are doing this Sunday. She loved doing that too and wore her dress all around the house tonight. It was a busy day.. that's for sure! She's been in "trouble" so many times tonight for getting out of bed.. over and over.. I think, (now that it's past 11:00) that she has finally fallen asleep. I don't know where kids get their energy.. Oh yeah! They get to take naps! How wonderful! Oh to be young!
Well.. She's in my bed right now and the hubby is out with a friend, so I think I'll sign off for the night and go snugle with my little princess. Night Night!