lights in belton

can you see the smiles on our faces? the lights in belton were everything i remembered about last year and more! seriously . . . this year was so wonderful! we headed there with our bff's after a great g'town dinner . . . okay, the wonderful didn't actually start until after we waited about an hour to drive into the lights . . . yes, an hour in the car with four kids. the minivan has never felt quite so small. i let them unbuckle, but told them they had to stay in their seats . . . well that lasted all of a minute until they were crawling all over the van. there were 3 little bodies right behind my seat and b.c. sitting on my lap! i felt sooooooo claustrophobic! mck was getting a big kick out of how frustrated i was getting and kept sticking her head as close to me as possible . . . with a big ol' grin. how can you not love that girl? :)

the lights were wonderful and sooo worth the wait! how can you not be completely in the spirit of the season driving through miniature trees and a huge tunnel that dance to the music streaming through the car radio?!?!? it was great! the windows were down, the heat was pouring out, and the kids were so excited! ken and kam hung out on one side of the car .. . kam sitting in ken's lap in a good part of the way and mck hung out on the other side . . . pointing everything out to b.c. who was sitting with me part of the time and helping daddy drive the other part! ken's fav part . . . "the baby jesus lights" (is she my kid?) :), mck loved the tunnel, and kam . . . "the baby lights and the baby trees" (if it's little and she can put the word baby in front of it she likes it!) :) b.c. was just in awe of everything!

it was late when we headed home. mck and ken passed out as soon as we left the lights. . . but little kam talked to us the whole way home! :) she wanted to know where the moon was and where its baby was and where the deer were and where the baby deer (and wanted all of them to wake up so she could see them!) were and why we couldn't have her baby music blasting in the car! :) it was a special treat for her to pull onto our street and see 2 mommy deer and 2 babies laying in the grass in front of the driveway! :) (she said, see they listened to me and woke up!") too cute!

is it possible for christmas time to get much better?