Christmas Season is here!

I love it, Courtney is really starting to get into Christmas this year! She loves looking for lights on houses and singing Christmas carols and all kinds of other things that go along with the season. Last night we took her to the Festival of Lights parade they do in downtown. It was the first time Hubby and I have ever been to the parade too! We met up with the Zeigner's downtown and Kelly and I ended up sitting on a blanket on the street, so we had GREAT seats!

There was the usual bands, and floats and fire trucks. Everyone and everything had LIGHTS. It was great! Courtney spent half the time on Hubby's shoulders and the other half of the time with me on the street. She was yelling 'Happy Holidays' and 'Merry Christmas' and 'whoohoo'! She was waving and high five-ing people coming by. She was really getting into it!

It was COLD though. Our car thermometer said 30 degrees. Courtney had on 3 layers on her legs and three layers under her big winter coat. Hubby and I also had on several layers. We left Kasey with my Mom and Dad since it was so cold. It was too cold for her! But Courtney had a GREAT time, she talked about it the whole way home. Here are some pics.

Friday our neighbor called and asked us if we wanted to join her and her daughters on their trip to a gym called ArtSports. It is a really cool place that has lots and lots of trampolines and a few foam pits. Courtney and Ava ran all over the place and had a blast. The babies sat on a trampoline and had a blast being bounced.



The day before that (Thursday) was our Zoo preschool day. It was 8 degrees and a little snowy, so we once again were the only people to show up for preschool. We learned all about polar bears. Since our zoo doesn't have any polar bears, we got to make treats for our grizzly bears. We have 2, Emmit and Digger who were saved from being put down up in Wyoming or somewhere because they kept getting into people's trash. So, now they belong to us!

Anyway, Courtney put peanut butter on sticks and we took them up to the grizzly bears. They opened the door and Digger came over to the cage. They let Courtney give him a stick though the bars! It was so neat!!! We really are enjoying our zoo preschool!

Yes, we have hit a cold snap recently and it's been super cold! Right now, at 9:45pm it's 10 degrees outside our house. I don't even think we got up to 20 degrees today! BRRRR! We have also had light snow on and off all day. I have to say, so far this winter season has been pretty cold and snowy!

Tonight we had our annual "Friend's Holiday Dinner". Basically our Christmas party with our close group of friends. Sometimes due to busy lives and such it's hard for all of us to get together at once. But most of us were able to make the dinner and get some catching up done. I always look forward to the dinner.

Well, my hands are freezing and so is the rest of me, so I guess I will go and put on some warm PJ's and go turn on my heating blanket! Stay warm everyone!