Christmas Vacation: Day One

Technically it was the first day of Christmas vacation for only me. Brynn had school today and I dropped Clara off at daycare in an attempt to get errands, last-minute gift shopping and appointments done. As soon as the girls got home, though, vacation mode was on. Dana is off all of next week and doesn't go back until January 3rd. I took off next week as well, but go back to work on the 2nd. I have been very much looking forward to Christmas vacation and knocking out our bucket list with Dana and the girls.

After pizza for supper, we took some Christmas PJ/tree pics before we headed out for our annual holiday lights tour.

We initially had thought we knew which neighborhood we wanted to go to, but Brynn wasn't crazy about going out and she put us on a 20-minute time limit. So, with that time frame, we didn't go to the neighborhood we had in mind as it wasn't that close to us. We still saw some nice displays.

Apparently it was all too much for Clara.

Clara received some different candies and goodies for Christmas at daycare today, so she was rifling through all that tonight. I was chuckling at her in this video because she kept trying to look at her tongue to see if it was green. hehe.

Christmas Cocoa! Mmmm!

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theweckerlys said…

Aww love the PJ/Christmas tree pics! Fun time!

December 23, 2017 at 12:21 AM

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