It’s my favorite time of year and the day after Thanksgiving Luca and I were outside and setting up the lights.  

After the lights were up we headed to our favorite tree farm and in between the hot coco and hay rides the kids found the perfect tree! Luca was in charge of the saw Autumn was in charge of being perpetually cute.

With the lights up and the tree decorated next on the list was talking to Santa.  Luca and Autumn have been calling the North Pole via their North Pole Communicator nightly so they were very excited to see Santa in person. We headed to the Alpenrose Christmas In Dairyville.

The dairy is home to several baseball fields, cycling track, go-kart race track, and western town replica with lots of fun shops.

We walked through story brook lane.  It was a tree lined street with little buildings.  Each building was based on a childrens story and came complete with petable animals. Here are the sheep from Little Bo Peep.

Autumn checks out the Three Little Pigs in their brick house with the Big Bad Wolf trying to blow it down.

Bye chickens!

Easily Luca’s favorite place was the two buildings of replica train cities.  The cities were huge with diesel and steam engines, tunnels, and even a train roundhouse. He could have stayed here all night and have been plenty happy…

…but it was time for Santa’s house!!

This was supposed to be a Luca and Autumn pic 🙂  but not this year.  Autumn decided she’d rather be with Dad than tell Santa what she wants for Christmas this time.

A quick stop at the bakery and then some last minute pictures in Santa’s sleigh

We had such a great time and will have to come back again next year