Day After Christmas

The Day After Christmas was a great one for us.  We spent the day as a family together. 

First, Elaina practiced riding her new bike outside.....  She's got to get the hang of it still.  She will.  Last year we were outside in the snow with her barbie jeep.  This year we barely needed jackets while outside.    Anyway, here she is giving it a shot.

Later that day after naps, we headed to Pigeon Forge for the day.  We have never gone up to see any lights during the holiday so we thought we'd hit a few stores that we got gift cards to and then have dinner and see the lights at the Smokies stadium.  We had never done that before and were super impressed.  I was glad we went. 

Anyway, before we did that, we wanted to do something fun with Elaina since she was a trooper and walked to a bunch of stores with us with no complaints. We happened upon this Christmas themed road carnival right outside the Wonderworks Museum.  Perfect!  She had a ball and we enjoyed watching her have a ball...

Train ride...

Carousel...

Big tall fast slide...  This was her favorite.

And... Ferris wheel...  Little tid bit of information that even I did not know - this was Erik's first Ferris wheel ride EVER!!  WHAT??  How did I not know that and how is that possible??  So, he and Elaina experienced their first Ferris wheel rides together.  I am so glad he did it and we got to snap this picture of the big event.

We finished off the night with dinner and the light show at Smokies stadium.  Like I said before, I thought it was super cool.  You set your radio to a particular station and the lights are synchronized to the music...  I thought it was worth it.. and, it's not near as crowded after Christmas so it did not take long.