Friday night after Thanksgiving our city kicked off the Christmas events downtown. It was going to be a freezing night, but I knew the kids would love it -- so we dropped Titus off with Grandma and Grandpa and off the big boys, Mark and I went to celebrate. We waited for quite awhile in line to see inside Santa's workshop and meet Mrs. Claus. Luckily they had some really upbeat music going including the Interlude that kept the kids dancing. There were also several different characters walking around including some elves, a snowman and a penguin. We finally got in for our 30 seconds with Mrs. Claus and then down the slide -- the moment they had both been waiting for :)
They had a band playing too and the boys were thrilled when Alvin and the Chipmunks came out to sing for us. I will admit the wait got a bit long...
and everyone in the crowd was getting really anxious...
but finally Santa came driving down the street...it was pretty neat!
We then walked down Main Street to see the lighting of the tree and the fireworks. I love fireworks and I think this may have been the first time that both boys really enjoyed them too. They were very pretty. We then had quite the walk back to our car...Both boys were super whiny because they were freezing and it was late. Mark was such a great dad that he gave up his coat to Isaiah and ran with Levi on his shoulders all the way back to the car.
We quickly got Titus and headed home to bed...although the end was rough, it was a pretty exciting and fun night for everyone! I wish there were more fun things like this that we could do together as a family!
Thanks Mom and Dad for having the baby!
**the big pictures that are by themselves were copied off the website for Holiday Hoopla -- not sure if they wanted me to do that, if they didn't -- sorry!, but they definitely captured the moment better than I could! :) **
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