The evening started with sharing some tasty food at our friends house. Then we headed out to the botanical garden's, Winter Garden aGlow.
A few of us were especially excited to see the garden lit up with 300,000 sparkling lights! And we weren't disappointed. It was beautiful and despite it being chilly, we enjoyed ourselves. Thankfully there was some hot cocoa, cider and little fire pits disperesd around as well, to temporarily thaw us out. Ellie was intrigued by the lights and it was neat to see her focus on the little, and big, ones intwined around the garden. Sometimes she would crane her head around, as well as arch her head and back to look at the lights. I love how having a kid makes things more exciting and makes you appreciate more. This was just many of 'firsts' for her and we can't wait for all the others she will experience.
After walking around for awhile we headed back to the house to put Ellie down (she's such a champ going down in the pack n' play somewhere else). And us adults could finish the night off in a warm house! Some treats were put out and then we exchanged gifts with some holiday music playing in the background.
Fun night with some fun people! We appreciate them all and are grateful for their friendship which is the best gift of all, not to be cheesy...but it's true!
Sadly there weren't ANY photos taken at the house, but we did capture some shots at the garden.
^^Not the greatest of shots, but here's a bit of the garden!
^^We aren't totally set up on winter gear for Ellie, so we were piecing together things for her wear. Funny enough I had some old school mittens from when I was little she could wear.
So don't judge that awesome outfit of hers...
see those lovely brown, red and beige mittens peeking out?!
And I love how she was arching her back so she could get a good look of the lights around!
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