Festival of Trees

The thing that's great about having sisters close is when you husband blankly stares at you when you ask them to go to the Festival of the Trees you still have someone to go with...lol. So I loaded up the kids..picked Nic up on the way..and met Kimber there and had a great time. For the most part all the kids were excited to sit on Santa's lap but I think Hallie was the most excited so she went first. She told Santa she wanted a dollhouse 

 Then Gracie went and said she wanted a puppy

 Oh when did our beautiful girls get so big?!?

 They were both thrilled with the candy stick they received

 Then we wandered around to see all the trees, the gingerbread houses and the other displays. They were all really well done.

 The kids all really liked this grinch display....probably because of the movie

 This was our "attempt" at a group picture

 This gingerbread house was probably my favorite thing we saw it was so amazing! The detail was unreal I can only imagine how long it took to complete.I also turned on a circle.

 Once we finished we took the kids to the treat corner and let them each choose a treat. After we wandered through the entire section we went back and got what the kids choose. Hallie wanted a caramel apple, gracie was asleep in the stroller, Luke got a chocolate chip cookie,  Rigs a pretzel rod, and as you can see from the picture below Kinley had a chocolate cookie with chocolate frosting and really enjoyed it....she was a mess!

 Rigs wore the "leash" so he could be out and wander with Hallie. When we were standing talking we looked down and he was on all fours barking. We seriously couldn't stop laughing.

I love great days like this it is refreshing and rejuvenating for me and my spirit. We had a very quiet ride home seeing as all the kids were asleep. Although its more of a circus with each kid we always seem to have a great time.