Saturday after we got home we put up our Christmas tree. Colin really got into decorating this year and carefully placed his ornaments.The tree is a little bottom heavy with ornaments and they get moved constantly as Colin keeps playing with them all. He really likes the nativity set and its fun seeing him play with the wise men and baby Jesus. Colin woke up the next morning and told me it was going to be a really fun day and I asked him why and he said "Santa came last night" so he's a little confused as to how it all works and thinks that Jesus has a really long birthday party (what he told me today) and he wants to know if he can have his birthday party just as long. ha! Joel loves sitting under our tree and looking at all the lights and wants to just eat the ornaments. I remember being little and just sitting near the tree just looking at all the lights and ornaments. Colin and Joel both like sitting next to (or under the tree) So fun.
I tried to get a picture of the boys and I in front of the tree but self portraits are hard - esp when they love looking at the tree
Sunday night we went to the Founders Inn Illumination. Julie, Eli and Jasper came and so did our friend Sarah. According to the website and brochure there was going to be a lot of stuff going on. It sounded really fun and very family friendly. Ha nope! There were crowds of people and the lines for everything was really long. I think it was over an hour wait for the free carriage rides and the face painting was just as long. So we all went out to the courtyard to wait for the lights while Brent and Colin stayed inside to listen to the Christmas Story. Colin wanted to stay and listen and Brent said he went down with all the other kids next to Pat Robertson to hear the story. (I had the camera - i wish brent had gotten a picture) Pat Robertson asked a few questions and then Brent said he opened up his bible and read mabye 2 sentences and then was done. It lasted all of 5 minutes. So they came and joined us outside where Colin and Jasper were crying and Eli might have been crying too. It was dark and you couldn't see and there were tons of people. Then Pat Robertson came out on this balcony (where they had an orchestra that no one could hear) and we counted down from 10 and then they turned the lights on. Then everyone went home. Not too exciting and next year we'll just go on another night and walk around the courtyard. The kids were disappointed since I think we had talked it up but it was still good to get out of the house.
2 comments:
i like that family picture, it turned out good!
I didn't know that was Pat Robertson counting down!
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