Sea World

The week before Thanksgiving, Michael had his Thanksgiving break, which means two whole day off in a row.  Whenever this happens we often try to do something, this time we made a family vacation out of it, and went to Sea World!

Benson loved all the shows and was often found dancing on our laps to the music!

The dolphin show was defiantly everyone's favorite!

The boys loved the rides!!!

Because the Christmas season had started there were Christmas trees everywhere and they even had a place to visit Santa's reindeer! They also got to have a very special visit with Santa himself.

After our visit with Santa, some of Santa's helpers played an exciting game of duck duck goose while we waited for the special tree lighting

At this point everyone was freezing because with the sun going down it had started to get cold. The only blanket like thing I had was my cape, which Benson was being snuggled under to keep warm.

The very last thing we did before we left was visit the snow area. (we figured we were already cold and this could be our only opportunity to see snow this year so we stopped in for a minute.) Alden loved the sledding, but two times down was more then enough. We explained how he could go more but he said it was too cold.  Calvin was exhausted by this point, he still ran in to play in the snow but fell down as soon as he entered and then was done.  It reminded me of living in Utah, Calvin was still a toddler at the time and would often fall in the snow, I always thought he might like to play with or in it for a minute but he would always look down at his cold hands, start crying and put his hands up so I would pick him up and get him out of this cold stuff that was all around him! :)