Springdale Light Parade

 In December, we do a Activity Advent Calendar.  It is so much fun.  We all just love it.  We do a lot of the traditional things that we would already do and add a few new ones.  It's so nice to plan everything out that we are going to do for the month to ensure we do everything that we want.  And I've learned not to put the card for the activity in the countdown til the night before.  My master calendar is in pencil and we switch things around a lot.  But it works for us!  One of our new things this year was to go to the light parade in Springdale.  It was perfect. Springdale is just quaint and fun in itself.  But the cars and trucks lighted up with lights and Christmas music blaring from the trucks was just cool.  Not to mention, my kids were pretty much the only kids on our street so they got lots of candy!

All night I was playing around with my camera.  Frustrated that I knew enough about the settings to change them, but not enough to actually fix something when I messed it up.  Like all the blurry Christmas lights at night.  Then I turned and saw Lindsey going in for a hug from Lauren.  I got down at their level and was hoping for the best- no time to figure out ISO at that moment.  And I got it. By far, one of my favorite pictures of the season.  Pure Love.