christmas tree lighting

now i will get back to big pop and grandma's visit. friday we just hung out around the house while madelyn tried to get over her stomach bug vomiting. once we figured out that she was fine as long as she didn't eat or drink anything we decided that we wouldn't go out to eat after all. it just seemed like it would be too mean.

instead we decided to go to delafield and check out their christmas tree lighting. the write up sounded fun but i thought that it was a little disappointing. and it was pretty cold out too.

we actually missed the tree lighting but enjoyed checking out the hand made ornaments. there were fruit loops on pipe cleaners shaped into candy canes, pinwheel pasta glued together to make snowflakes, and birdseed glued onto heart shapes. madelyn and i thought that we might try to make some of these for our tree in ohio (i don't plan on unpacking all the christmas stuff but we will just get a small tree and make some ornaments).

maddux seemed to do really well with the cold all bundled up in his stroller. although he did startle when we came out of the heated chocolate store back into the cold. (yes, we got some expensive chocolates and at least mine were really good.)

i don't know that the event was worth the outing, but it was nice to get a little fresh air. and madelyn did well even though she would not participate in any pictures. love.