{A Dickens Christmas}

Tonight we went downtown to celebrate the first day of Christmas season in the south with some of our good friends.  A Charles Dickens Christmas.  There were a lot of people dressed "of the period" and several horse drawn carriages, which the babies LOVED.  Tons of people came out (after a long day of shopping) to welcome Christmas to Fayetteville.  Charles Dickens grandson was the guest of honor.  Whoa!

There was a brief processional and speech followed by the lighting of the downtown and a great fireworks display.  It was a lot of fun!  Fancy was pretty miserable for the walking around part, but she loved the processional, the speech and the fireworks.  Coach was, of course, perfect the whole evening :)  It was so fun to sing Christmas carols with 10,000 people and introduce my (now very interested in Christmas) babies to this incredible holiday.

We went to dinner afterwards with Chris, Jami, Grady & Greer.  Cheddars!  The babies did great and ate everything in sight!  There were no tantrums and it was super enjoyable to eat with them without being flustered.  Grady & Greer did great also!  Fancy did flip herself out of her booster seat and onto the floor under the table, but she was shockingly totally unscathed.  She came up laughing.  Geek.

Sleepy Coach after the festivities, our view of the square, twin mommas and our little loves (and a little one on the way!  Not me, check out the cutie in the middle), The Daddy and Coach, Momma and Fancy.

I found some more pictures from tonight online.  These peeps had a better view than me :)

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How neat is this?!?

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