Too Much Christmas For One Blog Title

Today was pretty eventful. It started off with Ashlyn and me heading over to the Chapel Nursery for a playgroup. Ashlyn was shy at first, but started to warm up near the end. We had to leave early, though, because Ashlyn needed to eat, get a bath, and get her pretty Christmas dress on before we went to go see... Santa!!! I knew to keep my expectations low and I'm very glad I did! Santa was NOT her favorite person this year! The poor girl was terrified of him! She screamed when I put her on his lap and Aaron just couldn't get her to smile for a picture. So I had to kneel down and hold her while she was on his knee and this was the best we got.


The original plan was to put it in the Christmas cards, but yeah... we're going to be taking a different picture for that. :) Oh, and speaking of Santa, click this link to see who's on Santa's Nice List this year!!!

This evening we went out to dinner before heading out to a parade. In the lobby they had a few decorations up.


Then got a great spot for the Electrical Lights Parade.


I am officially going to call it the Main Street Electrical Parade because, well, it goes down the main street on base and I love Disney. Here is the Security float. They did not make a float ahead of time so they asked Aaron if they could borrow one of the boats. He spent half of the day on Friday getting the boat on the trailer and over to the parade area.


And here are a few other cool floats.


Anyway, it was a lot of fun. This was our first year going and I think we'll definitely make a point of going next year. Not only were there great floats, but some people threw out candy and one float actually threw out stuffed animals to the kids in the crowd. Ashlyn got a cute blue gorilla. Next weekend is the Holiday Boat Parade so we'll make sure to take pictures there, too! :)

Oh, and we can't end this post without saying...

ALABAMA IS THE 2009 SEC CHAMPION!!!!


Roll Tide!