December fun with Christmas lights.

Since August 2010, Kayla has been a steady presence in our lives. Once a week we get her for a 24 hour period from Friday night until Saturday afternoon. Since Mom is busy with six-month-old Baby B at home Kayla gets some fun just-me time with us.

In December we did do all kinds of fun things.
We discovered a free carriage ride in Rail Road Square. FREE! Thanks to all the merchants in the area she and I got to meet Willy the horse and his gracious owners.


We sang Jingle Bells and now she tells people she rode a one horse open sled. That works for me.

On another Friday we drove around our neighborhood looking for Christmas lights. Well we found four houses decorated to the max. This house has been dressed up in lights for over 40 years. Kayla and I counted 42 Christmas trees on the lawn all with lights, some twirled, some were small, it was all so fun. Her favorite was a Santa train right at the base of the big tree.


We don't decorate for Christmas, it has never been our thing. So we enjoyed the lights and enjoyed Kayla's reaction. At this house she named all the story characters, "that is Snow white, there is Pooh".

It was all smiles.

My favorite reaction was watching her dance for joy under the snow-flake making machine at the last house we visited that night.



In spite of all that snow making fun, her favorites were the angels. Kayla has a thing for angles.

Since our Friday night outing we have been looking for lights and discovered Lights of the Valley a website were you can look for and rate decorated houses in most of Northern California. The following week we made it to Walnut Court and saw more story characters.