Christmas Tradition

Last weekend, we had a rare opportunity to just be frivolous and just pick up and go do something fun


So we took that opportunity, to take a respite from some pretty stressful regular life stuff.

We took off to our favorite city to see Christmas lights, eat yummy food, and hopefully, take some great pics of the kids for our Christmas card. We had been to see the lights a couple years ago, and declared it a Christmas Tradition for our family, but we just had never gotten back there.

It was a lot of fun. Our kids loved staying at Aloft. It's this really trendy new hotel chain that is very European and modern. The kids really enjoyed it, and it was super cheap, so that was a bonus.

The yellow flower blooming here was just an unexpected blessing.

My boy is growing up so quickly, but still such a happy kid with the best sense of humor. He makes me smile every day.

The ladies who make baskets also had all of these live wreaths, and I wanted one so badly. Gorgeous!

My kids always want to climb this same tree at the Battery. They were having fun climbing around on the limbs, but if you could see the outtakes, it was so funny seeing them try to climb.

I would love a secret entry to my garden like this, it just seems magical.

I can't believe I got this picture to turn out. The old bridge lights would fade on the display, and then the new bridge lights would slowly brighten in the background. It was so pretty, and it was on a little pond so it was awesome that I got it.

My daughter kept saying, we could live in this little house, or this one. Not realizing that these little houses South of Broad, cost over a million dollars. Sorry, baby, we would not quite afford that. She was the most patient in posing for pictures, believe me, noone else was!


All in all in was a great trip. We had a blast, and I knew the kids did, when on the way home my son said, "Aww that was way too short, I don't want to go home yet."

Tradition confirmed.


What do you do as a family tradition?