~The Mitchell's~: Christmas Happenings

Saturday before Christmas, Terry, Natalee & I loaded up & headed south. We went to Madison to eat supper then headed back north to Canton. We took Natalee to see "Canton - the City of Lights". It was amazing! She had a blast & loved looking at all the Christmas lights. They had the whole town square lit with different scenes, the courthouse was beautiful, a giant Christmas tree that was GORGEOUS, a couple of carousels, a train, a horse & carriage, & so much more! When we first got there, we stood in line for the carousel for probably close to an hour. Natalee wanted mommy to ride with her. She picked her a horse & we got on. It didn't really look safe to begin with but Natalee wanted to ride so we did. Once it got going it was going really fast & Natalee started crying. She kept saying "It's going too fast! I want off!", but we couldn't just hop off so we had to finish the ride. It was kind of wobbly too. That is the only thing we rode though, cause it was really cold & so crowded. So we ended up walking around the square, taking pictures, & looking at all the beautiful lights. Before we left, we stopped by the book store for some hot chocolate. Yeah, it was not good! All in all we had a blast & Natalee had so much fun!

Mommy & Natalee riding the Carousel

The courthouse was beautiful!

Daddy & Natalee

Some of the decorations

Natalee LOVED all of the Christmas decorations. She even had her own tree in her room. The weekend after Thanksgiving, Pete the Elf, came back to visit Natalee. She really enjoyed looking for him every morning! I TRIED to remember to get a picture of him in all the places he liked to hide & all the things he liked to get into, but I think there were a few I missed (of course!). He was caught in the tree with a half eaten candy cane, in the basket of ornaments on the counter, in the Halloween candy, in the cabinet in a glass....you can imagine what kind of mischief he got into!