Lights, lights, lights!

It's become a family tradition for us to go to Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden with MaMa and Pop to see the Gardenfest of Lights.  It's an incredible light display--THOUSANDS of lights on/in/around all the plants, flowers and trees.  We're in the middle of an amazing warm weather spell with high temperatures in the 70s so we decided to take advantage of the forecast and head to the garden.  Note to self, always arrive when it opens at 5pm.  Resist the temptation to wait until it's "really dark".  The lights are just as pretty at dusk, plus you avoid all the lines to enter.  When we left around 6:30pm, the lines in the lobby to buy tickets were insane.  Plus, we avoided kid meltdown from staying out too late. A moment of mommy brilliance!

The kids were probably a little over-dressed but it was such a pleasant surprise to be warm.  The last few years have been so cold and it was nice to be able to feel my fingers and toes the entire time.  JGray and Delia had a blast running around, checking out the lights and eating s'mores.  Henry hung out in his car seat the entire time.  He continues to be the most mellow of the Schmitts.