Christmas is in the air!

We LOVE Christmas around the Spade house. We try and do anything and everything we can during the holidays. This year so far, we have went to the Reid Park Zoolights. It is much smaller than the Phoenix zoo, but I think we liked it better. Much cheaper, less crowded and more to do. We invited our friend Mike along and Tanner just loves him. We don't exist when he's around, lol. Sorry the pictures are sideways, I can't get them to upload to blogger the correct way...I need to save them as .png files, but I can't for some reason... Just tilt your head ;)

 This is how the night started...with a grumpy, napless toddler...

 Poor Mike carried him most of the time, Tanner was so attached to him, it was adorable

 Tanner LOVES lights

 Not a good picture, but the only one we could get before he squirmed his way out of my arms and into Mike's

Some of the lights, it was really pretty.

 Tanner checkin' it all out

Best buds :)

Each year we go to this street in Mesa where EVERYONE decorates their homes for Christmas. It is amazing. I have been going to the same street for over 10 years. It just isn't Christmas without going. We get hot chocolate, bundle up and walk through the street. Tanner LOVED it. He would yell, "WOW!" and "LIGHTS!" the entire time. It was pretty cute. 

 "WOW!"

My mom just came down this past weekend. While she was here, we made sugar cookies. This is becoming our tradition. Tanner was able to "help" this year. He enjoyed eating all of the cookies that broke apart. He said, "YUM!" all day. I also made snowman pancakes on Sunday morning. It rained all day Saturday, so it was really cold, and nice warm pancakes were just what we needed. I added chocolate chips as the coal.

We also put up our tree last week. Tanner loves to look at it. We got a new star for the top that changes colors. He picked it out. Our tree looks soooo small in our big, empty front room. We really need to get furniture or do something with that room...