La Salette Christmas Lights

On Friday night, we decided to get into the Christmas spirit and headed out to La Sallete Shrine, which has a huge (free!) display of Christmas lights. It was really beautiful with so many lights. It was also REALLY COLD so we all froze our butts off. Especially Leah, who started off the evening with a diaper blowout. We changed her in the trunk of the car because she had made that much of a mess in her clothes/diaper/seat that we had to take care of it there. The poor baby froze her little heinie off while we cleaned her up. I ended up carrying her a lot of the way because I wanted to keep her warm with my body heat.

Some of the lights around the little lake

One of the goals for the evening was to try and get a good picture of Ella and Jack for Kim's Christmas card. Unfortunately, because of the difficulty of taking night pictures, and the fact that the kiddos were freezing their butts off... well, none of them turned out all that good. Here is one of our first tries.

Cousins admiring the fountain: Leah, Cam, Ella, Jack

Tom and Joan

Leah the little bear

Another Christmas card try... Ella looks cute, Jack looks like a deer in headlights. :-P

More lights, and an overall good idea of La Salette - awesome in its gaudiness

Cute picture of Mr. Jack

And another picture of Leah Bear. We took lots of pictures of her because she was so darn cute with those pink cheeks.

There was a merry-go-round, one of the only things we had to pay for. Cameron doesn't normally like carousels, and has actually freaked out on the one at Carousel Mall, so we figured he would skip it. One look at Jack and Leah in line though, and he was all in. He rode happily with them and was so excited to go on it. Since then he has ridden on the one at Carousel Mall too. Thanks, Ella and Jack, for showing your cousin how to ride a merry-go-round!