Christmas Traditions: Seeing the Lights

Ready for another Christmas tradition?  Let's talk Christmas lights!

Our family has long enjoyed Christmas lights - whether it was the house down the street or a full blown park display.  Since adding little miss, she hasn't been old enough to really understand them yet.  This year though - jackpot!  She often times yells from the back seat that she sees Christmas lights!  So, when our town does the annual walk through night at our park's Christmas light display, it seems like something too awesome to miss.

We started at home, which has now become a nightly occurrence, looking at our own nativity scene and pointing out what all is in our display.  Then we took off towards the park.  They do a fireworks display each year, but we were still walking to get to the park, so we plopped down in an empty field and watched for a bit.

Once in with the mile long crowd, we started to explore, finding each "Elf on Shelf" hidden in the park that we could.  There are over 25 different light displays, and gobs of people, so you can imagine that not every scene gave us the chance at pictures.  (I won't lie; I was sad at some of the ones I missed.)  However, my kids had a ton of fun stopping at the ones we could and telling each other what all was in the scene.

This one I was particularly intrigued by since the entire thing is made out of - you guessed it - pallets!  How cool is that!?   And my kiddos got the chance to sit a time or two and gather to point out trains and animals in the nativity scene.

 No one should be surprised that Anna and Elsa were a huge hit with our family.  As were Charlie Brown & friends and some famous Disney crew.

We made sure to note baby Jesus each time we saw Him and before we knew it, we were at the end.

The last display had tons to point out and my two stood and admired for a moment.  By then, we were worn out from the mile walk and ready for home!  But don't worry, we had plenty more light displays to point out on our way home.  =)  Until next time!!!