Friday, November 30, 2012

The Start of our Advent Calendar

We are attempting to do the Advent tree again.  Which means 25 days of gifts or activities.  It officially starts tomorrow on the 1st of December, but we had to do our first family activity tonight, being that tomorrow night we have a Nebraska football game to watch.

So we headed out to the Luminaire walk at the Arboretum.

Oliver had a great time and wanted to go, go, go.  Except for when we came upon the musicians, then he was content to stand and listen.  That one loves his music.

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He also loved the new train area.

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Bella had a great time, she was yelling in excitement the whole time.  And I really do mean the whole time we were there for almost 2 hours.

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The kids even got a chance to meet Santa.  As we thought, Oliver did not want to sit on his lap.

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Once he saw the pretty lights in the background he calmed down.  Bella did a decent job looking at Santa herself.

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We were joined by our friends the Divine’s.

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And we wrapped it up with a family picture, although not everyone would cooperate.

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017It really was a great night to start our holiday tradition.

1 comment:

  1. Enjoyed your pictures from the Luminaire Walk! Thanks for sharing! Looks like everyone had a great time! (Glad Oliver calmed down for a cute pic with Santa!:)) It was wonderful to hear that Bella enjoyed the family outing, as well!

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