The Ballard Bunch

Here's our littlest snow-bunny nice and cozy in her hat, mittens and bundle me. She didn't wake up once - she had a great time!

This is Tatum at the start of our adventure. She didn't last long in the stroller, but did a good job at staying with the group. She loved the elves - I think it's because they were almost her size!

Here are all the kids at one of the displays. The more kids you gather, the harder it is to get them to all look at the camera, forget smiling at the same time! Can you tell which ones are kids and which are elves? :)

We snuck Shantell, Braeden and Tatum past the ropes to get a cute picture near this mini-house. Shantell was very concerned that we were breaking the rules and Tatum was obsessive about finding a seat on the stairs before we could actually take the pic.

This is an attempt to get a picture of the three cousins, but Braeden is pulling a serious "Travis" in this one.

Here is one of the cute displays, minus our kids.

At the end of our visit, this mom wised up and had the kids all do something fun together for the picture - seems a group challenge is the way to get them to cooperate. Arms up!!!

(I'd considered trying to get them to pose like lil' rappers, since the sign says "Will Wrap for Candy" - but you can imagine how difficult that might have been with this crowd!)