Hadley and Brooke dancing right along with the Rockettes during the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
Ok, so these next few are from the Festival of Trees which we did the Tuesday before Thanksgiving. Technically not included in our busy weekend, but oh well. This picture was taken just seconds before Brooke decided she did not want to ride the train after all. Hadley rode by herself and I rode the second time with both of them.
Brooke posing next to her favorite tree.
Hadley and Santa!!!!! I was pretty surprised when she walked right up without hesitation. Brooke wanted NOTHING to do with the jolly old man.
Brooke has started this whole hand thing when she is getting her picture taken. What a pose!
Hadley with her favorite tree -- Hello Kitty
Kami getting some love from her sister...
I think she's hiding from her sister in this one!
Here are the pictures from the Polar Express. It really was a good time. The younger girls were a little young to really enjoy it. Hadley was the perfect age and had a lot of fun! Once you boarded your train car, you got your souvenir ticket, hot cocoa, cookies, a jingle bell from Santa (if you believe) and lots of entertainment. They had girls dancing and we were even able to join in to the singing of The 12 Days of Christmas. If you are looking to maybe try this next year, tickets go on sale in June. I really don't know how we got tickets for this year because I hear it's a pretty big deal.
Brooke and Ellie
Daddy and Brooke
Brooke NOT smiling --that's another new thing she does. If you ask her to smile for a picture she does this. What a goof ball.
Brooke and Mommy
Looking out the window at the North Pole
Hadley after eating Oreo cookies
The hot cocoa man
The girls dancing
Brooke and Hadley
Brooke and Papa Clark before we left.
Brooke was practically trying to jump out of my arms to get away from Santa.
Ok, so these next few are from the Festival of Trees which we did the Tuesday before Thanksgiving. Technically not included in our busy weekend, but oh well. This picture was taken just seconds before Brooke decided she did not want to ride the train after all. Hadley rode by herself and I rode the second time with both of them.
Brooke posing next to her favorite tree.
Hadley and Santa!!!!! I was pretty surprised when she walked right up without hesitation. Brooke wanted NOTHING to do with the jolly old man.
Brooke has started this whole hand thing when she is getting her picture taken. What a pose!
Hadley with her favorite tree -- Hello Kitty
Kami getting some love from her sister...
I think she's hiding from her sister in this one!Sometime in September I had seen a facebook post from someone asking about extra tickets for the Polar Express train ride. I had never heard of it so I googled it and found out that they do a train ride in Monticello. We found the website and the only date they had available was the Friday after Thanksgiving. We went ahead and ordered tickets and didn't think much about it. Rewind a few weeks to August... The Rochester Rockets football team was starting their first season as a member of the CS8 conference. Little did we know they would have an undefeated season but go on to win the State Championship -- On the Friday after Thanksgiving!!! The train ride started at 7:30 and the game started at 7:00. Monticello is about 30 minutes from Champaign. Brian's mom, Patti works at the high school so she was really torn. We enjoyed our train ride (pictures below) then hopped in the car to go to the game. We had gotten a hotel room in Rantoul because we would be going to my Aunt and Uncles, so my mom and dad took the girls back to the hotel while we went to the game. We ended up catching the 4th quarter and the celebration after they won. It was really neat to see so many people there to support Rochester and to know that I was at the first game and Brian was on the first varsity football team ever at Rochester in 1996.
Here are the pictures from the Polar Express. It really was a good time. The younger girls were a little young to really enjoy it. Hadley was the perfect age and had a lot of fun! Once you boarded your train car, you got your souvenir ticket, hot cocoa, cookies, a jingle bell from Santa (if you believe) and lots of entertainment. They had girls dancing and we were even able to join in to the singing of The 12 Days of Christmas. If you are looking to maybe try this next year, tickets go on sale in June. I really don't know how we got tickets for this year because I hear it's a pretty big deal.
Brooke and Ellie
Daddy and Brooke
Brooke NOT smiling --that's another new thing she does. If you ask her to smile for a picture she does this. What a goof ball.
Brooke and Mommy
Looking out the window at the North Pole
Hadley after eating Oreo cookies
The hot cocoa man
The girls dancing
Brooke and Hadley
Brooke and Papa Clark before we left.
Brooke was practically trying to jump out of my arms to get away from Santa.This blog is so out of order... Sorry. I said earlier that we picked out our tree on Friday morning. It was cold but I wanted to go ahead and get it because I knew we wouldn't be able to get it the next week and I didn't want to wait until the weekend.
Here's our tree at the tree farm...
Here's our tree at the tree farm...
And, here it is decorated at our house.
Our niece Ellie is going to be a big sister to a little boy! Brad and Devin found out last month that they are having a boy. Guess I'm off the hook trying for a boy to carry on the Tweryon name :) Devin's brother Dustin and his wife Missy are also having a boy due just a couple weeks before Brad and Devin.
I still have a few more pictures that didn't make it on here. I will post those later, but for now, STAY WARM! I can say that for just about everyone I know that is reading this blog, because even Florida is having some pretty cold weather right now! Do you hear that Brody!?!? Stay warm. Maybe this weather is just preparing you for your trip home in TEN days!!! Have a great rest of the week everybody!
