Christmas Family Fun!

 We had so much fun this weekend!

After working so many weekends in a row, it was nice to enjoy a weekend for once.

Friday night we went to a very neat restaurant in downtown St. Louis

The Fountain on Locust

 Hubby and I in our booth enjoying an appetizer

My sister joined us after she got off work for desert

Saturday we had a family fun day!

We did a lot of cooking and baking...

 Alyssa helping me make Hot Chocolate Brownies

 We made our own Christmas Pizzas

We also made Jello-Jigglers, Grinch Floats, and chocolate covered pretzels

Once it was dark we headed over to The Shrine for The Way of Lights

My parents joined us.  It was over 30 min. wait to get into the entrance and about an hour to drive through.  We've gone through this thing in less then 10 min, start to finish before, but that's what we get for going on a Saturday right before Christmas.  It was beautiful none the less.

We also stopped by the Pet Store while we were out.  Bubbles got a festive new home for the holidays and Pongo, our Guinea Pig, got a new igloo (aka: hiding hole according to Alyssa)

And Sunday we had family over.

My aunt and uncle as well as my "baby" cousin who was in from college

We had dinner, exchanged gifts, and chit chatted most of the evening.

Alyssa received a gift card to the American Girl store and can NOT wait to go to the store and use it.

We had a great weekend!!!

This week doesn't slow down at all.

In fact I need to hurry through a shower so I can make my hair appt which is in less then an hour.