I love all the fun things to do at Christmas time, which starts mid-day Thanksgiving.
:)
I have made a real effort to get organized and get things done early so I could enjoy the holidays, stress free. It's worked pretty well, except for one day, just ask Eric.
Here are some things we've done thus far.
Our stake's nativity festival has a wonderful kids room. Zach was into it, but Avery ran away. He looks cute!
At our ward's Christmas party, the primary kids put on a wonderful nativity, all done to a song. It was beautiful. This was right before they went on, and Zach is a little too far to the left. I didn't even get my own son in the picture, what is wrong with me? He was a shepherd.
The Lights at the Toledo Zoo! A tradition for us. We went on a Monday night and it was tons less crowded than last year. The lights are so pretty and we did see a few animals. Avery had a fun time, even though she doesn't look it in this picture.
The best animal display that evening was a lion roaring. It sounded different than I expected, but cool nonetheless.
These ducks came walking right in front of us. Zach's way to call to them was, "Hey you, ducks! Come here!". They didn't come though.
Zachery spied a gingerbread man at Panera and has been talking about it since. So today we went to get some. Avery kept eating the m&m buttons while I was taking pictures.
Then she danced afterward! (I did her hair in a french braid for the first time. It doesn't really stay put, but I thought all the time I practiced on my sister's hair, while we were on road trips, really paid off. Thanks, Nickell)
