HeavenLee Times: It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.....

What a week it has been.... Let's start from last week's blog.

We visited Enchanted Airlie last Saturday night. This is the first time our family visited Airlie during the Christmas holidays. It was VERY cold, but worth the walk in the cold to see the lego display (which contained Star Wars characters), butterflies and beautiful lights. We didn't wait to see Santa, as there was a long line, and we knew we would be visiting later in the week.

Jackson in front of the Lego town.

The butterfly room was Eliza's favorite part at Airle.

Sunday was the annual Advent Festival at church. We made our gingerbread houses, advent wreath, oranaments, bead candycanes, hand-print Christmas trees and countdown to Christmas chain. We had a great fun with great friends!

Eliza concentrating on her gingerbread house.

So tempting to eat the icing "glue."

Eliza's finished product. So proud!!

Wednesday we visited Santa at Mayfaire. Eliza didn't want to get close to Santa at first, but from the door told Santa that she wanted a Mickey Mouse. This is the first Charlie and I heard about this.... Jackson was excited to sit on Santa's lamp. He told Santa he wanted a Star Wars transformer, Maze Book, Woody, Buzz, Slinky and Jessie Toy Story characters. Once Eliza saw Jackson sitting on Santa's lap, she decided she would get closer, but not too close...

Eliza: "This is close enough."

We stayed for the "snow" at Mayfaire. Supposedly, there are 2 snow blowers on the roof of two restaurants by the theater....Charlie and I were a little (and by "a little", I mean VERY) disappointed. The kids loved running around...maybe because it's been so cold, and they haven't been able to run around outside. After running around in the "snow", we had a nice dinner out.