Hi hi Lovelies! It took me a while to finally have some time to blog about our Winter Wonderfest adventure. I tried to take as many pictures as I could, but I didn't bring my camera, only my phone, so the pictures aren't in the best quality, especially with the lighting. BUT! We did have TONS of fun! We saw so many magically decorated trees. One in particular was my ABSOLUTE favorite!
Can you guess why? Yep, that's right. TIFFANY!!! "Breakfast at Tiffany's" is one of my all-time favorite movies. I la-la-love Audrey Hepburn. She is my idol. She's beautiful and talented and her style! It's classy glam all around.
The kids had fun playing around the place with their neat carnival rides and inflatable slides. Unfortunately we didn't ride any of the carnival rides. The line for the ferris wheel was insane (for being a Friday afternoon) and Ethan and I are just crazy motion sick for the other stuff. But we did take advantage of all the monster slides! There was also a cool tube hill that was a lot of fun. We tried ice skating, but Reesie wasn't having it and Ethan was just having a hard time. In my opinion, my blades weren't sharpened enough so even I didn't enjoy it too much. (I should have just brought my own ice skates but I haven't sharpened those blades in a while.)
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(Some quick scenes of the "town" on the train ride!)
(Look J! Tropical themed! ^_^)
Generally, it was an amazing time. It was just so magical and beautiful. They had a cute little show and the train ride was pretty neat. Their kiddie area was a lot of fun too. Reesie had a blast there. She loves the merry-go-round! It was a great adventure to take the kids on. I wish I had better pictures!
It was a great inspiration for our own Christmas tree at home. Originally I wanted something Frozen themed. Reesie loves the movie so much that at one point we had it on repeat the whole day. And my dream tree would be of course the Tiffany tree I took a picture of at Winter Wonderfest. So, the kids and I went to Hobby Lobby (one of my favorite stores ever in life!). Hobby Lobby has great sales for the holidays. There was 50% off going on, so I thought to take advantage of that and get our ornaments and decorations. Unfortunately because we'd gone so late, a lot of their packaged ornaments were all gone. We didn't really have much to choose from. So I went with a more traditional theme.
Not so bad right? Heheh. Ethan really wanted these neat black and silver ornaments with fancy designs on it, but it wasn't appropriate I thought. I told him next year when we can get a smaller white tree for his room (because I love Christmas so much EVERY room in the house should have a tree!).
Because there wasn't much packaged ornaments left, I decided to fill in the gaps with Christmas floral which was also 50% off. Our tree isn't very full so there were a lot of gaps that needed to be filled. I decided to use the thick ribbon as garland to hide most of the gaps and the floral pieces everywhere else and work the ornament balls around the rest of the area. The kids had fun helping me put everything together.
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And don't forget MICKEY MOUSE! I've had this ornament for about 3 years now, but this is the first time I get to actually use it. Last Christmas, our theme was green (my mom's favorite color so all her ornaments she bought were green) and poor Mickey was in storage. The year before that we had a little tree and it was just way too big to put it on. But this year he made it on the tree right in the middle where everyone can see! I'm so happy!
I told the kids, while we were at the store, that they could pick out one ornament that they liked as their special addition to our tree. I'm not sure Reesie understood what I was talking about, but she picked an ornament nonetheless. Ethan had a little bit of a hard time finding something he liked and I told him that he could pick one of the most important parts of the tree: the tree topper. So, this is what they picked out.
Reesie is super adorable. Of course she would pick an ice cream cone ornament with candy in it. She loves her ice cream! I still want to find a better ornament for Ethan, something that represents him more, just like Reesie's ice cream cone represents something she loves. I'm thinking of finding Minecraft ornaments on Etsy or making something? I'm not sure yet. But there's time for that. If I can't find something by this Christmas, I have all of next year to find a good one.
On Monday we went out to Royal Buffet for dinner for my mother-in-law's early birthday celebration.
I love the fact that they picked Royal Buffet because they have really great food there. Their sushi is amazing, their hibachi is yummy, they have steamed buns, a few selections of dim sum, crab legs for days, and awesome dessert! They have crepes and I love crepes!
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AND COTTON CANDY!!!
During the weekends they have creme brûlée and that is one of my favorite desserts. I just love desserts in general!
It was a fun time with great food and great company. Reesie was trying to use chopsticks, Ethan really liked their chocolate fondu fountain, and the hubby ate his weight in crab legs hahahaha! I was so stuffed afterwards I didn't want to move!
December so far as been fun fun times. Stay tuned for my review on my Coastal Scents haul!
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I can't wait for that because *dun dun dun* I am going to be uploading my first video on YouTube! Hopefully. I just recently discovered that my new MacBook Pro does not have iMovie on it and it's $14.99. My old one does, but the iOS is so outdated I can't do anything but write my stories on it. So we shall see. If anything, of course it will be blogged.
Until then, Lovelies!
Love sincerely,
Mich <3
