Winter Wonderland!

Saturday night we took Jackson to the Zoo for their annual Winter Wonderland display of lights and holiday fun!!  Jackson had a fantastic time riding all the rides, seeing the Reindeer and visiting Santa!! It was a fun filled family day and night of exciting Holiday events!!!

Jackson eyeing Santa's reindeer

Touching a reindeer antler!

The reindeer up close!

Jackson with the ducks and penguins made out of lights!!

Jackson and I in the Frozen Forest!

Jackson giving the Penguin a hug!

Jackson and Penguin

Feeding the Goats! Gross!

Pretending he's a toy soldier too!

Ryan and Jackson with the Penguins!

Jackson liked this Christmas display!

Enjoying a christmas cupcake!

Jackson's favorite ride the flying Bananas!

Riding a pony!

Lets go already!!

All smiles!

Having Fun!

Riding on the train!

Jackson and Santa!

Telling him everything he wants! Which took awhile!

Santa telling him to be a good boy! Not sure that worked!

Riding in the sleigh!

The last display of the evening "Sugar Plums" So appropriate to end the evening!   

The children were nestled all snug in their beds,
While Visions of Sugarplums danced in their heads.
And Mama in her kerchief and I in my cap,
Had just settled down for a long winter's nap........

 Merry Christmas to all, and to all a Good Night!!

Santa's Pre-flight Parade In Westchase!

Today was the annual Santa's pre-flight parade in Westchase and boy was Jackson excited!!!  We have been talking about this all week so naturally he was anxiously awaiting Santa's arrival all day!! The weather was perfect although a little cooler would have been nice but nonetheless we still had hot chocolate and cookies (which Jackson ate plenty of) before Santa arrived!! The parade came right through our neighborhood and all the kids were so thrilled to see Santa!!  They got beads and candy canes and just had a blast!!!!  It is such a great holiday event that The Westchase Charitable Foundation puts on for the kids and parents alike!!!!

Jackson riding his bike to the parade!!

Jackson and Daddy before the parade!

I told you Jackson enjoyed some cookies!!

Waiting for santa oh so patiently!

Santa's Coming!!

Playing tag before Santa arrived and this is his fall in action which he quickly go t up and kept running!!

Jackson and his friend Caroline!

He sees Santa!!! So cute!

Santa's Here!

Sitting on Daddy's shoulders!

The parade coming back around!!

Elmo and all his friends!!

Jackson saying goodbye to Santa!

See you next year!!

Enjoying his candy cane from Santa!

Lots of Beads from the parade!!

I think we are ready for Gasparilla!

Such a great afternoon as you can tell from Jackson's ear to ear smile!!!!!!

Christmas Poem and singing Jingle Bells!!

Jackson Singing baby Jesus We Love you!!

Jackson Entering the Christmas Program

The video footage of A Joyful Christmas!!!

Now for the best part of the "A Joyful Christmas" Program are the videos Ryan took of Jackson singing all the songs!!!!!  I could only upload 2 to this Blog then the rest will follow on other Blogs!! It was definitely comical so enjoy I know we did!!!!

Part of The Pledge of Allegiance

Go Tell it on The Mountain

"A Joyful Christmas" at The Rainbow Garden!!!

Last night was Jackson's christmas program at school and what a fantastic night it was!!!  It was so special and I am so glad we were able to be a part of it!!  All the children did a fabulous job singing their hearts out and Jackson did awesome!!  He sang and danced a little :-) and just had fun up there on stage!!!  Ryan and I both commented that it was the first time we had ever seen him stand in one place for that length of time :-)  And we were a little nervous he was going to try to run off stage and see us but he stayed up there and was such a good little boy!!!!  We are such proud parents!!!!  Thank to you to The Rainbow Garden staff for putting together such a sweet program and what a wonderful way to really kick off the Christmas season!!!  

Jackson's name in the program!

The program!

Before the show!

Jackson and daddy!!

Jackson and Brynna!!

Good friends....although Brynna's mom told me Jackson kissed Brynna at school today and how Brynna always talks about Jackson!!  Uh oh!!

Will, Brynna and Jackson before the show!

Walking in!!

Jackson with his hands behind his back walking in so sweet!!

Getting set up!

Jackson was so happy to see us there!!!  We had great seats thanks to Miss Pat at Ryans work for  pushing Ryan out of the office on time :-)

Ready to start!!

Hi Mom and Dad!!

Singing their first song!

Singing so nicely!!

Waving again!!!!

Dancing kind of!!

Doing the hand motions to the song!!

The whole 3 year old class!!!

Go tell it on the mountain!!

Singing Go tell it on the Mountain!!

Having fun!!

Close up!

Really getting into it!

All the 3 year olds singing Go tell it on the mountain!

Singing their hearts out!!

Shirt Untucked already!!

Jingle Bells, they had cute bells they had to jingle!!

The end of the show!

Leaving the stage!

Gracie came to the program!! And boy was Jackson Happy!!

Gracie, Jackson, Aubrey and Josh

Jackson and Gracie Hugging!!

Jackson eating a cookie and hanging out with Isaac

Buddies!

Our family although Jackson was more interested in the cookie!!

When we got home ready for bed!

Enjoy this beautiful Holiday Season!!