Thursday, January 26, 2012

Christmas 2011

We were able to go home for Christmas, which was really nice!!! It was a short trip, but I wouldn't have it any other way! Ansley ended up getting the stomach bug while we were there. That kinda put a little damper on some of the Christmas festivities. Not to mention passing it on, but at least Christmas was over when everybody else got it!! Sorry! :) I  made another one of these 'smilebox' things. It is so much easier when there are a lot of pics. So enjoy the slide show below....
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Monday, January 23, 2012

some random pics

Here are some random pics from one of the first snows we got....

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Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Holidazzle Parade

I know I'm WAY behind on my blog posts, but I'm trying to catch up...starting with our trip to the Holidazzle Parade that runs through Downtown Minneapolis! http://www.holidazzle.com/

We went with AJ and Jen and started the day off with a trip to Macy's. On the very top floor of Macy's they have a holiday show called 'Santaland-A Day in the Life of an Elf'. It is an animated show and it reminded both me and Lance of Dollywood or something that would be at Dollywood! :)
Even elves have to sleep....Ansley couldn't get over the fact that they were snoring! :)

When we left Macy's we walked around Downtown for a little bit before meeting up with Tina to eat before the parade started.
playing around downtown
Ansley loved all the Christmas decorations

So after we ate, we made our way to find a spot to watch the big parade!
Front Row!
the floats were very elaborate....it was very different than the Clinton or Lake City parades! :)
Ansley had so much fun!

After the parade and on our way home we stopped by a drive-thru Christmas light show in St. Paul. It was pretty neat, but it didn't come even close to as good as Shadrack's at the Smokies Park, but we had fun!
at first I thought this was a red tractor, but once we got closer I figured out it wasn't
We had one tired little girl on the way home!