Friday, December 7, 2012

18 Days until Christmas - Festival of Lights with the Alexanders

We had an absolutely fabulous date night with the Alexanders.  They drove down from Red Deer for a play at our house, an A&W picnic on the floor and then a tour at the Airdrie Festival of Lights.  
Sam happy to be playing with these three little monkeys!
An annual photo... hmm... sadly maybe it's more than annual but we definitely have one just like this with a smaller version of the boys!
Bundled up and ready to tear up the Festival of Lights!
Best ever!
We turned a corner and the train pulled up... NO LINE UP.  We couldn't believe it because last year we waited an hour to ride the train.  We squeezed all 4 boys onto one car and they rode the train all by themselves.  Very fun!
Getting ready to go!  So cute!
Connolley Fam!
Alexander Boys!
We decided to was time to warm up so we headed into the tent.  First we found this penguin.  The girl in the reflective vest told us the penguin's name was Waddles but the boys were convinced it was a different penguin.  There was a funny smell in the tent of deep frying mini donuts and the boys didn't like it.  The hilarious thing was they thought the bad smell was the penguin!!!  Hahahaha!
Another surprise (and a very short line) was that the man in red was also at the Festival of Lights.  What luck!!!  Everyone let Santa know what they wanted for Christmas.
3 out of 4 fit on Santa's knee!  Love these beautiful boys!
We found Santa's sleigh parked outside the tent so we all gave it a try.  Sam thought is was AWESOME!
One of my very favourite families ever!!
I feel so grateful to have this beautiful and inspiring mommy in my life.  I wish we lived closer, talked often and spent more time together.  I love that we pick up where we left off regardless of how many months have passed since our last visit.  Thank you for loading up your crew and bringing them to share this wonderful Christmas activity with us; so much fun!

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