It's that time of year again! The decorations are up in and on the
house, presents are wrapped under the tree and our schedules are filled with
things from parties to Christmas programs and everything in between.
We have already done the Festival of Lights at Moody Gardens and Jocelyn was an
adorable barn animal in the Christmas program at church.
We have had one epic fail already though. John and I took the kids to
see Santa at Bass Pro Shop where there is never a line and they have the area
decorated so nicely - plus you get a free picture. Well, we took a
ton of pictures of our own on our camera but realized when we got back in the
van that we didn't have the memory card in the camera. Ouch. We
haven't been back to redo the pictures and we probably won't. Liam and
Lizzie wanted nothing to do with Santa and I held them both (yes - 60 pounds
between the two of them) while standing next to Santa. Jocelyn really
enjoyed it this year and even told Santa that she loved him.
This past weekend we did the Christmas Festival for Friendswood with
Mom, Jennifer, Kenny and all the kids. This was a pretty cool event
and there was lots to do for the kids. They got to slide down a snow hill
(after waiting in a very long line), meet Anna and Elsa, ride in a cute little
train and do an obstacle course bouncy house. Liam and Lizzie didn't get
out of their strollers for those couple of hours because it was pretty crowded
but they did get to eat a gigantic corn dog - each ate a foot long corn dog!
Last night (a Tuesday) we went to see the Zoo Lights and it was really neat. Mom, John and the babies picked up Jocelyn from school at 3:30 and headed to the zoo. They got to walk around for about an hour before the zoo closed at 5pm. Then at 6pm it would reopen for Zoo Lights. We used our membership (which was a gift from John's mom and will be put to good use) to get discount tickets. The lights were really great and Mom and I enjoyed a grown-up hot chocolate.
