Winterhaven and Desert Museum

Cari and her girls came to Tucson Friday evening and Saturday to help us start our Christmas Break right. We took the kids to a neighborhood called Winterhaven to see all of the lights. They block off the entrance streets to cars and you can either walk through or ride a hayride. We walked and only got a corner of the neighborhood. We'd have to go back several times to catch everything. It's in their HOA that they have to to decorate for Christmas. For some, this was stringing a few lights across their roof, for others, it was a much bigger deal.

This house was our favorite. They had a fountain and light show tuned to Christmas songs. It was pretty neat. We watched it for a while on the way in and on the way out.

Beautiful Cari and her beautiful girls

What a fantastic looking family! :)

On Saturday, Cari and I took the kids to the Desert Museum. I got a family pass when we went for Carter's birthday, but we hadn't been back since. It was a whole new experience. We found and saw things that we completely missed the first time, and couldn't find other things that we had seen originally. I'm going to have to start taking better advantage of my pass so we can explore again and again.

The kids loved the snake house. Personally, it gives me the eebie geebies. There were way to many rattlesnakes enclosed in one little house. Several of the snakes had recently shed their skins, so that was pretty neat to see. Cari did fine with the snakes, but wasn't quite as crazy about the tarantulas. I'd take a spider any day!

The kids hard at work looking for dinosaur fossils.

What a cute bunch of kids! Who would have thought that I had to threaten them within an inch of their lives to get them all together for one little picture?

We were really glad that we made the effort to go. Cari and I have just as good of a time taking a nap together while the kids play in the yard as much as anything else, but I think it was nice for them to get to do something a little extra.

Thanks for coming, Blackwells!