We took Will to pick out our real tree this year....I've always been a REAL tree kind of girl-full and fat. It wasn't quite the Christmas tree farm experience...with LOTS of 280 traffic just beside the lot, but that didn't really matter because Will was not in the browsing mood. We took home the first one John picked out and luckily it turned out to be what I think is our best tree yet!!
The 2nd weekend in December we met our cousins out in Calera at the Heart of Dixie Railroad Museum for a special train ride with Santa! We have been talking about doing the Polar Express train ride since about August. Helena started calling/checking online in October to book our tickets. This is when we quickly found out that tickets for the Polar Express train ride go on sale in JULY....so needless to say they were sold out. They had a daytime train ride with Santa that was not sold out, so we opted for that. It turned out to be perfect for Will and James' age. The Polar Express wouldn't have really meant anything to them since they haven't seen the movie or read the book, but the hot chocolate and warm cookies would have been pretty sweet!
Will's school Christmas party was this past Friday. John took the day off of work, brought him up to my school for our breakfast and then dropped him off at school and attended Will's Christmas party. He took a FEW (4) pictures for me...pretty much what I expected...lots of eating and a little dancing :)
Sunday night we took Will to his first Zoo Light Safari at the Birmingham Zoo. This was John and Will's first time and it did not disappoint. I mean, you don't go for amazing light displays like Callaway Gardens or something...there is just a bunch of lights and inflatables, and of course the carousel and train. Will was super cozy in his stroller and thankfully it wasn't too cold!
Monday morning we were lazy in our pajamas and made our first Gingerbread house. Nothing too crazy-just the store bought pre-assembled one from Wal-Mart but Will seemed perfectly content. He ate as much icing and gumdrops as we put on the actual house, but I guess that pretty much goes with the territory when constructing a gingerbread house. Every time he walks in the kitchen, he says "houuuuuse."
Mix in a few Christmas parties, shopping, wrapping, and trying to get it ALL done, we've been busy! I even attempted to make Christmas cut out cookies today-what a mess!! They turned out decent and I think Santa will be pleased, however I am not sure I will try to go that fancy next year. I think I have cleaned my kitchen 17 times, and that was all before 11:30 this morning. Whew....it has even taken me 3 days just to finish this post :) Merry Christmas!!
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