Lights Before Christmas

Mimi and Papa took us to Riverbanks Zoo and Garden for the lights before Christmas event. It was a blast, way better then our experience at our Zoo. They had more then a million twinkle lights, animated animals, marshmallow roasting, live music performance (children), snow, and much more.

Snow! Benjamin loved it and now "nooow"

Carousel Ride

Smores!

Train Ride!

Santa! Benjamin sure did stare him down

Girls Night...Christmas Style

Ken and David went to a football game so I thought that it would be the perfect time to start some holiday traditions. So we put on Christmas music, made some ornaments, homemade pizza, and a little dancing (and adult drinking!)

 

Train Ride with Santa

Mimi and Papa took us on a train ride with Santa at the South Carolina Railroad Museum! It was so cute and Benjamin loved it (minus Santa and Ms. Claus). We missed our first train and they squeezed us on the second train in first class, yea!!

He was so scared of them

First Plane Right

We flew to Charlotte, NC to visit Mimi and Papa for Thanksgiving. I was a wreck just thinking about it. I was dreading the flight but knew that a two hour flight was going to be better then a 12 hour drive. So off we go...

 

Benjamin did AMAZING on both flights, I was so impressed that little guy. We will for sure be flying again!!

Thankful for...

I am so thankful for my parents and grandparents who take such good care or Benjamin. We were going to be out of town on Thanksgiving so celebrated the Sunday before. Just love all these people so much!

Monkey Business

For Halloween Benjamin was a monkey and a cute one at that...

 

 

We took him trick-or-treating and we did great for the first two houses and then all he wanted to do was push the wagon around.

 



Boo at the Zoo is right

David thought that it would be great to take Benjamin to the Zoo for the first time (back in October) and it happen to be during Boo at the Zoo. What a mistake, never again! True fashion Carlson kicked in while we were trying to find a FREE parking spot. He told two ladies that were standing in a parking spot saving it for someone to "enjoy their cigarettes". Then some guy started yelling at David because he was waiting for fifteen minutes for the spot that we just pulled into, which to our credit we didn't see him. David proceeds to tell the guy that he needs to calm down and we will give him back the parking spot. I think the only person who needed to calm down was David. After twenty minutes of searching for a parking spot we found one about a mile away.

Once we get in and get situated, we realize that it is just packed with a bunch of kids dressed up in costumes running around yelling. The women walking in in front of us had six children all by herself and kept yelling at them all to hold hands and stay together. Yikes! David and I moved as quick as possible to get outside where we thought that it would be better. NOPE, the polar bear and penguins exhibits were closed due to remodeling, the line for the train was so long (as if David would even pay money for it) and we just missed the trick-or-treat vendors. Now, I was just on a mission to get Benjamin to the monkeys and get out of there and that is exactly what we did.

Moral of the story, never let your husband come up with the great ideas! Love you though honey