it's feeling a little more like christmas...

as many of you know, miles has been opening his advent calendar everyday, and each day there is a different christmas themed activity to do. today's activity was to go look at the christmas lights. my friend ann and her son joined us. we started in arroyo grande having dinner at gina's italian restaurant very, very yummy. then we headed to this amazing house that my friend joanna told me about. the house's lights are synchronized to the music on a radio station you tune into when you get to the house. we stayed there for at least 15-20 minutes. we would get ready to leave and then another song would come on and we'd think it was better than the previous.  AWESOME is the only way to describe it. we then headed back to santa maria to look at more lights. the kids drank hot cocoa and enjoyed commenting on all the cool lights we saw. this is a tradition i started with miles when he was just a baby, and i am so glad we have continued it with maisy. she kept pointing and saying "lights pretty". a very enjoyable night and a goo way to start christmas vacation!