Christmas Craziness Part 6

One night we grabbed another family and headed up to Christmas Village! The boys were so excited! Didn't get many pictures of the "village" itself, but got a few good ones of the kids.

Even daddy got in on the fun tonight!

Here's just a LITTLE taste of the lights! And notice the cars to the left? Yes, they are all waiting to get in! The traffic waiting when we left was about a 5 mile back up! AMAZING and so worth the wait!

Breaking news!

I'm interupting our "Christmas Craziness" to report that we have FINALLY reached our first milestone in the blogging world! Right now, you are witnessing our 100th post! WOW!
So, in honor of this very exciting occassion, there would be NO other way to celebrate in this house, with out cars! That's right, 100 CARS! (and trucks, well, anything with wheels really!) So here they are, 100 CARS cars! Of course they ALL talk you know! As you can see, Slick can't stop talking to them long enough to take a picture!
Enjoy!

Christmas Craziness Part 5

Every year, the Friday before Christmas, we get together with my mom's extended family. Here are a few pictures from it this year.
Three boys waiting oh so patiently to see who picked their names.
Then before we could get a real family picture, Slick had to have a turn with the camera.

Ah, there we go!

Christmas Craziness Part 4

Christmas Craziness part 3

Next came our visit to Santa! Thanks to our gracious hosts for the tree lighting, we've found a new place to go, with out having to go to the mall! This place was great. We walked right up to him, no waiting! He took as much time with the kids as they wanted. He would have talked all day! Even gave the boys candy canes! They thought it was great.

Although I have to add that we went for a little walk down the street to the bakery and on the way back Slick said, "Do we HAVE to go see him again? He's creepin' me out!"

HAHA! You would have never known it when he was talking to him. Don't know where it came from either!

Christmas Craziness Part 2

So after we thawed from the parade, we bundled up again and headed to the oldest tree lighting in America. This was our first time, but will not be our last. We're thinking it's going to be a new tradition, thanks to our gracious hosts for the evening.
Below is only part of our fantastic group!
Slick and his little friend "Snow Princess" had to do some thing to keep themselves entertained while waiting for Santa's arrival. These two could be trouble someday! Keep a look out for some more stories I'm thinking!

Spike and daddy try to keep warm! It was very very cold!

Here he is!

Before...

After!

Christmas Craziness Part 1

So, I'm going to try to catch you all up on what we've been doing to celebrate Christmas this year.
We "kicked off" our festivities with a parade, that is if you don't count putting up the tree (the night before Thanksgiving so I could watch that parade by the light of my tree!) Those of you who know me, know I LOVE a parade! So as you can see, we bundled up the kids, grabbed a few friends and headed out!

Here it comes! The horses start it off each year. Always a treat for the boys

There were a few floats this year. Of course Slick liked the doggie one!

But a parade just would NOT be complete with out a couple of John Deere tractors!

And of course lots and lots of fire trucks!

And last but not least, Santa!