Christmas lights

One of the things on my to do list for this Christmas was to get out and look at Christmas lights.  I found a website where you just pick a city in California and it has pictures of the best houses with decorations as well as ratings and directions.  You just click on the houses you want to see and it will make a route for you.  Pretty awesome if you ask me. 
So after dinner yesterday we loaded up the kids and went on our way.  At first Braedon was just mad because he wanted to go inside of the houses.  He took him a while to get the concept of looking at lights.  The first destination was two neighboring houses that had worked together to create a Christmas light show synchronized to music.  Braedon loved that so we stayed and watched the little show for a good 20 minutes.  When we were ready to leave (we, not Braedon) at first he was mad because he didn’t want to leave, but after explaining that there was plenty more to see and we excitedly pointed out all the other lights along the way, he really started getting in to it. 
This folks is one of the best things about having kids, in my opinion.  His excitement and little screams of joy as he would point out, “another Christmas light, another one!” made the whole experience so much more fun!  We spent almost two hours looking at Christmas lights and Braedon loved every  minute of it, once he got past the idea of wanting to go in the houses.  I can’t wait to watch him on Christmas morning! I don’t have any pictures of the lights, but they never turn up well on the camera anyway. 
Instead I’ll just leave you with some pictures of the kids…
in other news, Adi can hold toys now!

Braedon still fits in the Bumbo.

When he refuses to nap, it shows all over his face.

Adi loves watching her crazy brother run around and play, either that or she is watching him like a hawk to make sure he doesn’t run her over with his bike or something.