Better Late than Never

I had hoped to take the kiddos to a local garden where they do a great light display over the holidays, but we never actually made it there. It's honestly kind of expensive, and they were so impressed with our neighbor's "crazy tree" (it looked like the light department at Walmart threw up on a tree) that I decided we could do without.

Then the other day when we came home from church, one of our neighbors (not the one who owns crazy tree) came running out the door and told us how she and her roommate weren't able to use tickets to the light festival, and wondered if we could. Um, score. We were pretty grateful and the kids had a great time.

It went pretty well. There were several near misses with various little ponds, and one episode of extremely loud yelling while we were in the greenhouse about how the flowers were "sooo stinky". These children are so classy I tell ya. There was a pretty cool dragon light display as well, (first picture) and they may have yelled loudly as they ran through it that they were running down the dragons throat to choke him so he wouldn't "fire us". I'm really not sure where this kind of thing comes from, but I'm so glad that I have them to save me from dragons.

I'm pretty grateful for this neighbor's thoughtfulness. While something little, it really was a great gift and gave us the chance to do something fun with the hooligans...all embarrassing hooligan outbursts included. I mean, they wouldn't be the hooligans without them I guess. ;)