Kara and Mike's Happenings: Ho Ho Ho in September

Happy belated Thanksgiving to everyone! We had a great day yesterday hosting Mike's family. The day had a rough start with dishes gone wrong, nose bleeds that wouldn't stop, lots to do and the kids doing their best to make everything twice as hard to get done, but once family arrived, it was a good time. Lots of food, drinks and laughs. Now it's on to Christmas!

I have to admit, I have been super antsy about the holiday and have had a really hard time holding off on the decorating and dressing the kids in their cute Christmas t-shirts. The boys love so much about the holiday that I'm ready to dive it. Watch out because there's going to be a serious amount of tree trimming and holiday spirit about to be unleashed at our house! Oh, and of course, the boys are wearing Christmas themed shirts today.

Anyway, long ago (September) in a land far away (NH), we took a vacation. I have not exactly been on top of this blogging business lately and failed to finish blogging about our trip. Well now is actually the perfect time to post about our last big day on vacation because it was spent at Santa's Village!

Santa's Village is a year round kids amusement park in northern New Hampshire. We've opted for the "other" kid's park, Storyland, the last few years but decided to mix things up this year and see what Santa's Village was all about. It was seriously cute! Everything is Christmas themed of course. Given how much kids love Christmas, they thought it was great. Here's a run down of our day in pictures and captions.

We were greeted by Rudolph. If you said your name, he would greet you back personally.

Cupcake Chair!

The park had a great game. You picked up a card from "Elf School" and had to find all the lettered elves throughout the park. You punched your card on each one. Once you had a full card, you returned it and received your diploma. The boys loved it.

Dylan's favorite ride was the Humbug ride. You had to try and "tickle" the Humbugs with your laser to make them laugh.

Huge Nativity Scene
It felt a little weird to have Cade climbing all over the animals in a sacred scene but it seemed to be the thing to do.
When in Rome??

I was impressed with the little details that the park had.
Here are little male and female gingerbread cutouts in a railing.

Neither of the kids were too sure of Santa.
That should be interesting over the next few weeks when we plan to have some more run ins with the big guy.

We got to feed the reindeer!

Cade gave this one a little smooch.

We did a little shopping too.

I think the boys had the most fun of the day just chasing after each other in this little area.
It's really the little things for the kids, isn't it?

Despite the fun they were having at that point, they somehow were both giving the camera a pouty face at the same time.
We didn't really notice as I was taking the pictures, but Mike and I both laughed hysterically when we reviewed the pictures from the day and saw this. Those boys are too cute!