Viewing the Christmas House in Kim's Neighborhood 12-22-08

On the Monday before Christmas, Emily and I made our way over to Kim's house to view the light display at one of her neighbors house's. When we arrived, we were greeted by Dora who was very excited to see us. Emily and Helen played, while Kim and I waited on another couple that was coming to view the lights with us. When they arrived, we bundled up the kids, since we had a sudden cold spell of a day time high temp in the 30's, when it had been in the 70's the week before. You have to love that about SC, you never know what you are going to get =)

Emily pushed Helen's stroller for the first block, but she was having problems with the stroller staying straight, so Kim saved the day by pushing the second block. I had heard about the house from Kim several times, but without seeing it, it was hard to imagine. When we walked up to the house, there was a crowd of people coming to see the spectacle. The first thing we did was let Emily visit Santa who was out front. Then we started on the path they had set up for people to walk their back yard. It was amazing. I have never seen so many lights in such a concentrated area. After we had walked the entire trail that lead through their back yard and into their neighbors yards that they had also let these people set up in, we made our way back to Kim's house since it was so cold.

When we got in, we all enjoyed warming up with hot chocolate and other goodies. Emily being on her anti chocolate kick warmed up with her warm milk. Not a personal favorite, but she thought it was great. The kids were having such a fun time playing, we stayed until almost 9:30 when Kim and I were pooped. The little ones were still rearing to go =)