What a LONG day!!!

After a LONG night of shopping and a VERY LONG day with the kids- the plan was for me to come home, my mom would be picking up Lauren for the day and I would get to sleep while John entertained Michael. That plan did NOT happen. I walked in the door as my mom arrived for Lauren. Shortly after my mom left with Lauren, John got a phone call and had to leave for work. This meant I had been up for well over 24 hours and was now left to care for my extremely active one year old... I knew this was NOT going to be good. I thought maybe I could sit on the couch and relax for a few minutes.. WRONG- I fell asleep right away- thankfully the phone rang and woke me up- I got up, packed up Michael and off were were to the park to meet up with my mom and Lauren. We spent some time there then went back to their house for lunch with Marc's daughter Michele and her family who were in town and visiting (this is the only good thing about getting no sleep... I really wanted to see her and the kids). After lunch I brought both kids home for naps and took a short (hour and a half) nap myself and then I was up again to take the kids to the Mizner Park Tree Lighting with John, my mom, Marc, Amanda, Jon, and their kids.

John dressed Michael for the occasion in his "Pop Pop shirt"

Lauren and Nams on the train ride (Michael didn't go on this year- after the experience on the hayride for Halloween we decided next year will be better)

Sand Art- you can see where she spilled the sand on her skirt!

Some help from Daddy.

Lauren is still not a fan of the fireworks.

Michael on the other hand had no problem with them!

John and I got to sit in on the picture with Santa since neither of the kids were fans of him.