Zoo Lights 2012

You all know how I love family traditions.  

Zoo lights is another.

Our List Of Christmas traditions:

*Zoo Lights

*Honko the elf

*making a gingerbread house

*Making Christmas lists

*Driving around the neighborhood in PJ's, listening to Christmas music, admiring lights

*Baking cookies for Santa (Kids)

*Baking Christmas cookies (me)

*Sitting on Santa's knee

*Buying toys for those in need

*Decorating the house

*watching Christmas movies

*reading Christmas books each night

*Making reindeer food 

*Family Christmas Eve party

*Hiding Santa's key

The Sunset was amazing

Drama a.k.a Brody was doing what he does best, being dramatic.

Baby man loved all the lights.  

I figured he would have fallen asleep since it was an hour past his bedtime but he stayed awake and happy. The trick to keeping him happy was I carried him in a carrier instead of his stroller.

Mom advise: Buy glow sticks from the dollar store, hide them in a bag and give them to the kids when they start asking for the $20 glow wands that turn into weapons on the ride home.

They were just as happy with the dollar store ones.

Polar slide

I had to add this little gem.  Yes we do in fact live in the desert.  As I was sitting on the curb trying to get a cool picture of the lights, Landon walks up behind me and very nonchalantly says "Oh be careful mom, there's a scorpion right by your butt.  Its a big one". I thought he was kidding, never even turned around and kept taking my pictures.  Landon just stood behind me eating his popcorn, admiring it.
Gross. The rest of the night I was positive that I had scorpions on me, Lee found this funny (it may have been his favorite part of the night).