Christmas Season Pictures

On Saturday night, we went downtown to watch the Holidazzle Parade. It is a huge parade that, despite frigid temperatures, has a huge crowd. This parade happens at dark so all the floats are lit up with thousands of lights.

We watched from one of the sky ways that connects all the buildings downtown. Though we couldn't hear the music, we were warm and toasty watching it.


Notice Sam's Elvis smile. He busted his lip at the indoor play area on Friday night. A quick call to Granddaddy told us we didn't need to go to the ER for stitches, since he didn't bust it all the way through. He was in a lot of pain this weekend, but it didn't keep him from enjoying the parade.

Despite the rather unflattering up the nose shot of me, this is a cute picture of Sam. He loves to watch the video, posted on here, of Ga-Ga and Granddaddy dancing. Here he is learning "new moves" to add to his juking.

We received packages from Ms. Becky and her boys on Friday. Our kids have always opened their Christmas packages together. We tried to time it so that they could open them over speaker phone, but it didn't work out. We miss having our annual Christmas dinner and gift exchange with you guys!!!
Sam LOVED the Cars movie book that he received.

And of course, Maddie loves her triplets. These are wooden dolls with magnetic clothes and accessories. Right up her alley.

Here is Sam "reading" his new book to Lightning McQueen and Pooh.

Also, on Friday, Maddie's class made gingerbread houses. I went in to help out. All I did was put the icing on.....Maddie did the rest. Her house has candy cane "bushes" out front and even a sidewalk with Teddy Grahams walking up. She is very proud of her house....can you tell?