On the 5th day till Christmas...

Lily and I went to The Peabody to visit the ducks, look at the gingerbread houses and admire the many large Christmas trees! We had plans of a carriage ride to brunch, but the weather kept the horses inside.

We then headed to the Majestic to have brunch with Rocky, Grizz and Santa and his Elves.  We both had such a good time.  Lily was so into the mascots!

As we were crossing the street we saw Santa entering the restaurant and Lily got so excited!

Laura was our server and she took good care of us!
Rocky was having a big time and almost knocked us down with is tail feathers!
Santa spent some time with us at our table!

 He wrote Lily a note as he was leaving and she was so excited about that!

She wanted her picture with his note since I told her that we couldn't take the table cloth with us!

Lily especially liked this elf as he had fresh baked chocolate chip cookies!

 And both of our favorites...The Grizz!

Eric is the best Grizz and has such an inspiring story.  He spent some extra time with Lily and she was laughing so hard when he picked her up!

In the afternoon we went to paint pottery, but Lily told me not to post any pictures until after Christmas!  The entire way there she talked about the plate she wanted to paint Baby Mullen; however, when we got there she found something for her Poppa that she was so excited to paint.  We spent 2 hours painting and she said she can't wait to go back and paint a horse for herself!  We had major rain and storms this afternoon and Lily wasn't sure what to do, so we took her home where she was more comfortable.  Today was great...Life is so good!