Each little village here has their own tree lighting and events, our village had a fun event right next to our house at the outdoor mall. I took Maddy and Rylan and Scott stayed home with Ian. When you go they give you a little booklet that you can get stamps from each store. Certain stores had free things to give away, they had a horse drawn carriage, and a little mini train, and we decided to try an area novelty "Dick's Donuts!" They were delicious! They also had a parade, tree lighting and Santa!
Rylan was picked to be Joseph in our church's nativity reenactment. Isn't he so cute! He took the job very seriously and carefully listened to the director and led his Mary to the Inn, and then to the stable.
I found Maddy a christmas skirt and made the boys some matching bow ties, it was too cute to NOT take a picture!
Scott was being extra helpful and making the kids laugh while I took the pictures, this particular one he was putting a farmer brown toy down my shirt to do some exploring...if you know Scott you could only imagine the comments! Ian thought that was really funny, and I guess I did too because I was shaking and the picture came out blurry.
We also went to Navy Pier's Winter Wonder Fest. It was so much fun, and they had a discount for military families! It was basically a carnival inside the huge ballroom, with a Christmas theme.
Ian's favorite was the train. They also had an area for his age where it was a huge netted tent with soft "snow balls" that they could throw all they wanted to, and candy cane tunnels.
The ice rink
Dodge had an exhibit with their new cars coming out and some kid cars that Maddy could drive, she was in heaven!
This tree was the biggest tree I have ever seen, it was so magnificent! I couldn't believe that it was inside a building!
It is one of our traditions to make cookies for Santa, so we had our friends Hanna, Aubrey, and baby Lacey come over and help us. The boys went to Wild Buffalo Wings for a BSU game.
Rylan grabbed our neighbor Alex to come help too.
Things got a little crazy when the frosting and sprinkles came out!
The girls especially enjoyed dumping on the sprinkles, would you like some cookie with that?
These cookies didn't last until Christmas Eve so we still had to make more! Sweet little girls
Our Christmas card we sent out.
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