Festival of Trees at the Orlando Museum of Arts

We have been recruiting anyone and everyone to help us pack and also get our new house ready to move in to next week...my friend Lonnie was nice enough to volunteer his time to help paint the ceilings (so fun) along with Uncle Matty who has been slaving over there with Rusty on many occasions these days!  Since I am NO help in the construction zone and neither is Kennedy, we took Lonnie's wife Zandra and his daughter Avery with us to the Festival of Trees in Orlando for the day.  We weren't prepared for the beautiful "art" everywhere that was off limits to touch so it was hard work keeping the little ones away from all the temptation!  We still had fun though...and even got to see a special someone with a white beard and a red suit :)

 Wish I could have gotten more pictures of the beautiful decorated trees inside but I was too busy running after Kennedy so she wouldn't force me to BUY something!  All the themed trees were donated to the museum by local companies or artists and the public were open to purchase them.  All proceeds went back to the museum. This was a really neat event.

 

Standing by the angel tree looking out in awe!

 Kennedy is going in for kisses and Avery is not interested!  She was so excited!

 

 Taking a moment to listen to the children's orchestra playing.

 

 

 They were very good!

 

 Now on to SANTA! 

 

I want your glasses, haha!  He kept asking her what she wanted for Christmas :)

And she is done!  She wasn't scared of him, she just wanted down!

After I picked her up, Santa wanted me to sit on his lap, haha!  Thanks Zandra for taking the pictures.

 

 It's Avery's turn next!

 

 She wasn't so sure about this man!

 

 But she did give him a hug good-bye....look at her cute boots!

 

 Onto the kids area to play in the gingerbread house...everyone was stomping in it and Kennedy didn't know what to think of it!

 

 They had fun going IN and OUT!

 

 Watch out Avery, Kennedy is getting crazy with the blocks!

 

 I had to include this picture since clearly Zandra and I are the only ones who got the memo to smile...well besides the cute little boy on the right who is not with us :)

 

We decided to take our fun outside next....

 

 Kennedy is telling Avery that she likes her boots!  And Avery is telling Kennedy that she likes her pretty dress that used to be her cousin Audreys :)

 

They loved this big tree!  The girls look so small.  We had fun on our girls day out!