Christmas Eve

We had a nice time on Christmas Eve.  The theme for the table setting was the Nutcracker.

I found them at Kroger's while shopping for groceries.  They were marked down to $1.50 each so I snatched up what they had (8) and brought them home.

#lovenutcrackers

    

I snuck in on this little guy dancing to the music of the Mickey and Minnie snow globe.  He loves to play with the decorations in my office.  He's at the age I no longer have to worry about him messing with something he shouldn't.

We had gumbo for lunch.  We had a choice of chicken and sausage or shrimp.  I chose shrimp.  It was delicious!

Here are a few pics of opening gifts.

Poor baby.  He was so over opening clothes.  I'll have to remember to give him clothes on the side.

I hope you had a wonderful Christmas.

Happy New Year!

xoxoxo

Debbie

Zoo Lights at the Houston Zoo

On December 14th we went to the Houston Zoo to see the Zoo Lights.  The Zoo lights have more than 2 million lights and 15 miles of LED lighting illuminating the beautiful oak trees and the pathways.

#zoolights

#houstonzoo

The weather was nice.  It was a little chilly with the wind blowing.  The temperature was in the mid to low 50's.  Nothing like the Christmas Train experience!

You can tell by this pic it was a bit overcast.

There were lights outside of the zoo.

Here is Sweet P patiently waiting to get inside.  As you can see, we were there early so we did not have much of a wait.  However, the line was rather long by the time they opened the gates.

These photos do not do the lights justice.  It is so hard to capture Christmas lights.  I'm hoping these photos give you an idea of what we experienced.

Holly Berry is a 1958 Cadillac with a lightship set to music.

By getting there early, you avoid all of the crowds.

The lights in these trees changed out to colored lights and to the beat of the music.  It was so pretty.

It wouldn't be Texas without a huge armadillo.

The LED lights were so pretty!

Here are a few photos showing the lights in the trees changing colors.

There were very few sightings of the animals.  Here we captured the tiger.

There are three longhorns in the next photo.  They are kind of hard to see.

Mr. W and Ms. A were playing the bongo drums.

I love these.

I wish this one had come out better.  It is supposed to be a tree with various animals and such around it.

We had a really good time.  I highly recommend going if you find yourself with some free time.  My advice is to get there early so you will have close parking and also so you can get in at the beginning of the line.  The Zoo lights are open through January 15th.

Hope you have a wonderful evening!

xoxoxo

Debbie