Let The Holidays Begin

The last two days I have spent at the Southern Christmas Show.
This is something that I look forward to every year!
I usually go the first day, but this year I was not able to go until later in the week. However, I made up for it by going two days in a row.

(All these pictures are taken from the first day (Tues) when I went with Alyse and my mom. The second day I went (child free) with my friend Lori. It was her first time going. I was glad to introduce her to this fabulous event.)

Alyse loved going with me and my mom! She kept stopping and pointing at things and would say "Mommy! Look all the Christmas!" It made me smile!

After looking at the trees and decorations, we moved onto the 3 buildings shopping! I did my best to keep myself under control! I only bought a few decorations and did a little Christmas shopping too.

This is one of the things that I bought - SNOW! It is called Insta-Snow. If you have never seen it before you have to watch this video! (It takes a few seconds to download, but it is worth it to see how neat it really is.) I thought it would be really fun for Alyse to play with.

This is "The Gourd Lady". She has been at the show for YEARS. She makes me laugh. The last few years. she has had a sign that this might be her last year because may "retire" but the next year she is always there.

Alyse found a stage and had to dance.

Towards the end of the day Josh came and joined us.

One of his fellow officers asked him a few weeks ago if he wanted to work overtime at the show. He was given some free tickets and we figured the money that he would make would basically balance out the money that we knew I would spend... so he said yes. I have to say that I was a little jealous that night when he called me and informed me that he would be walking around and would have the WHOLE place to himself for the next 3 hours. Can you imagine?! 3 buildings of Christmas stuff just to walk around and look at all by yourself!

Alyse was very excited to see him. She made it her job to walk him around and show him "all the Christmas".

I am now inspired and ready for "all the Christmas" at our house.