Christmas Celebration #1 of 3 (Duluth)

We spent time in Duluth with my mom and brother, celebrating Christmas with them. We had the BEST time. An exhaustingly fun day was spent laughing and dancing and sledding and eating and singing and playing!

This just a sweet picture of a Daddy and his special little girl

Bundle and Yaya opening a present together

My mom had just enough snow in her backyard and the perfect sized hill so that Bundle could try sledding downhill for the first time. And boy did she love it!

Uncle Matt carrying Bundle to the top of the hill



Jon helping Uncle Matt & Bundle down the hill

Of course I wasn't going to miss out on the fun!

Jon wasn't going to miss out either!

It is hard to say who had more fun, the adults or the child. This is usually the case when we all get together!

As is our family tradition, we went to Bentleyville in the evening . The amazing thing about this light display (besides the lights and the music and food and size of the display itself!) is that it was started by a gentleman, Nathan Bentley, as a way to give back to the community. It is free and open to the public. It is a magical place. I'll never forget the first year my husband and I were dating and he wanted to take me way out in the country to look at someone's Christmas lights. Well, little did I know then, it was worth the drive as it was, and still is, the most spectacular Christmas light display I have ever walked through. What started out in his yard, then grew so large he had to move to a new house, is now in the Bayfront Park in Duluth.

Yes, we were the annoying people with a tripod, but it was worth it because we have decent pictures from the evening of all 5 of us.

Snowwoman, Bundle, Uncle Matt

Bundle meeting one of Santa's reindeer, Dancer

I love that this picture shows Bundle's dance moves!

Me, roasting a marshmallow over an open fire

My husband took this picture with the lift bridge in the background

I had a few tears on the way home, just thinking how simple, yet how beautiful, the day with my family was. And how blessed I am to have each of them in my life.