First smiles & first excitements of Christmas 2013

Going by the title you may assume this post will be about Hudson, but it's about Lulu! This will be a Christmas we will all remember because she was so excited about everything this special holiday has to offer. For starters she loved the holiday decor in our home, stores and christmas lights. When she helped decorate my tree and my mom's tree she would gently touch all the ornaments and say- "oooh, how pwetty." Any time she saw a large older man with a white beard she would say...."yook (look) it's HO HO HO." Every year I would drive around the neighborhoods and check out the lit up houses with Hannah. Even though she enjoyed seeing them, she was ready to go home about 20 min into our eveing tradition. Lulu on the other hand couldn't get enough! She had something to say about every house and just enjoyed the late evening drive. She reminded me of how excited I use to get when my dad would take us out almost every night the week before Christmas. Sometimes we would drive blocks away from our house and other times we would drive about 20 miles out for one big house he wanted to show us. I was never ready to come home- I wanted to see it all! Another highlight was that I was able to get a great picture of the three kids with Santa. Hudson was too little to even know what was going on, but I was so relieved that Lulu wasn't scared this year. Last year I didn't even bother to print the pictures I took of Hannah and Lulu because she was so scared of Santa.

Family outing to Buda Lights

Santa came to the Library!  What a surprise for us....