Hershey, the Sweetest Place on Earth

Another great Christmas tradition: our annual visit to Hershey with Marty and Stefanie. We've got it down now. First a visit to Chocolate World for the ride. Kelly loved the singing cows.

Then bundling up to head into the park to see all of the lights and ride the rides. A new stop this year: Shannon riding a kiddie ride by herself. This was her highlight. She wants to ride it again next year with the same random little girl.

Back into our groove: the carousel, followed by hot chocolate and a train ride.

Finally, visiting Santa's reindeer, the light show and spending way too much in the gift shop (I believe Marty is the proud owner of the world's largest kiss and the world's largest peanut butter cup).

Shannon's already asking to go back and sings the Christmas at Hershey jingle as obsessively as Chris does!

O Christmas Tree

Another great Christmas tree cutting adventure at Linvilla Orchards. It was a beautiful sunny December day (too sunny for Kelly's taste, she spent a good part of the outing digging through my purse looking for her sunglasses despite me telling her 75 times that I didn't have any sunglasses).

Kelly liked the little trees,

Shannon liked the hot chocolate,

and Daddy did a good job cutting down this beauty.

We love this family tradition!

Oops

Sorta skipped November on the blog. Why? We were WAY too busy!

Both girls started swimming lessons. Kelly and Daddy are swimmin' buds and Shannon is taking her first kid-only lessons in the big pool.

Mommy and Daddy spent a fabulous week in Italy.

A gelato a day...

And we celebrated Thanksgiving with cousins.