Lead-Up to Christmas

A couple of things we did this year leading up to Christmas was visit Santa's Barn Yard at LL Beans. Carey's mom works there and Beans does something like this every year. It is only open to employees and their families. They have employees who dress-up as different rolls at different stations and the kids walk through doing different activities. They run it for about 8 hours, in half-hour blocks. I think, she said they had around 4,000 people go through!

Making an ornament and being spun for pin the nose on Rudolph!



Giving the list to Santa

And of course we went and got our Christmas Tree. We found this tree farm in Dresden and decided to give it a try. Well as you will see in the pictures the pickings were very slim. This year was his last year in business so finding a great tree was tough......I mean impossible. Once you have the kids there you really can't pack them up and say we are going somewhere else without a melt down. They don't really care if the tree has a bald spot or not, they love it once its decorated no matter what.

They had a good time being pulled and pulling each other through the field. The toughest part was we had to go to the furthest part of the field for any trees and that means they had to walk the whole way back because the tree was on the cart.