Happy New Year! 2013 - can you believe it? I am looking forward to this year, but I have to admit, I am hesitant to say goodbye to the best year of my life so far. 2012 was fabulous for me, not gonna lie! I got my baby girl, and I got to spend extra time with both my kiddos while I enjoyed more than a few months off from working. Now I have to hunker down and find a new job, and I am not happy about it.
BUT - this is not about that. This is about the JOY I just experienced over the holidays. I am always behind, but I want to post about some of our Christmas fun before time gets too far away from me.
Stone Mountain Christmas: As usual, my mom, my sister and our kiddos all went to Stone Mountain Christmas, and this year Aunt Jen and her boys came too. It was FREEZING. I mean, like, INSANELY cold. The kind of cold that no one in GA should ever have to know! Still, if there was ever a time to be bundled up, this was it. Unless you are a crazy, full-of-energy, hot-natured bunch of boys!
Jack has been talking all year about the "Holly Jolly Cabaret," which is a fun, comedic musical show they have had for the last few years. I can't believe he remembers it, but it somehow has made a big impression. Here is the set from this season. 
Then of course we had to visit with the Snow Angel. Jack looks a little worried, but he was actually really excited! Baby Girl did great!
The fan fave is definitely the train ride. I was playing with my iPhone on the train, and apparently the flash is a bit obnoxious! Sorry Aunt Christie!
Nice "photo bomb," Logan!
After the train, my kids saw Santa. Stone Mountain is the best place for us to see him b/c there is hardly a line, and it is just really calm and laid back...nothing like the chaos of the mall scene. Jack asked for a metal bat, a real basketball, another train and a new PEZ Dispenser. :-) Lander just smiled like crazy!
The one above is the one I took with my iPhone. The one below is the official one the Stone Mtn. photographer took. Of course, I told Jack to do the funny face!
We finished up with Santa just in time to see the Snow Angel make snow and watch the fireworks, or "boom-boom," as Jack still calls them! Jack tasted a little of the snow on his tongue, and Lander enjoyed the bright lights in the sky!
It was a fun-filled event, as it is every year, and it is truly something I love doing with my mom and sister and the kids. We got home to Daddy really late, but since it was a Friday night, we were all able to sleep in the next morning. We spent the weekend before Christmas just relaxing together and getting the house ready for Christmas morning. We also rode Jack's little bike one last time...
I have to stop for now, but I'll crank out Christmas Eve and Christmas in my next post! Stay tuned for more of Christmas 2012 with The McQ Zoo!
~The Zookeeper ;-)
