Wow! I am WAYYYYYYY behind in finishing up this Christmas blog post!! We still have a few more days to go to complete our "week"

TWAS THE DAY BEFORE CHRISTMAS

DAY FIVE

This year we decided to start a tradition of going out to eat at, kid's choice of restaurant, and then go drive around and see all the pretty Christmas lights. To start off our new tradition, Cale chose....(drum roll please........)

IHOP!

Cheap, easy, and quick...and actually, pretty decent food! Not to mention we were ALMOST the only ones there two days before Christmas Eve!

(note the one lone man in the background)

(and noone in the tables surrounding Cale and I)

This made for a pretty enjoyable dinner and we didn't care that Keegyn was running around the table most of the time, being loud and spilling her chocolate milk on the floor!

This year we chose to drive to St Paul and drive through the display around Lake Phalen. The kids had a blast and the lights were fun...although I'm sure they would have been better IF there had been any snow to make them glow a bit brighter! I must admit, that I was somewhat of a scrooge this year when it came to the fact that we didn't have at least SOME snow for Christmas.

(and now that we have some, I'm sooooooo over it and ready for it to be gone!)


Here are just a few of some of the kids favorite light displays:

Where will our tradition take us next year???