As you can see- Ike really enjoyed his time at our family outing to Bass Pro Shops!  This is his favorite face of late and I can't tell if it's hideous or kinda cute- or maybe just hideously cute?  what do you think? 

Bass Pro shops has the COOLest Santa's Wonderland ever.  The fact that it's all free doesn't hurt at all! They've got remote control monster trucks and remote cars on racetracks to play with with - our two boys were in heaven. We may have been the only people there whose winter coats weren't hunting camo or bright orange- but we enjoyed ourselves nonetheless.

Zeb LOVED the snowball throwing arena.  There must have been ten kids in this big tent just going crazy hurling 'snowballs' at each other.

 

He also sat and watched the trains FOREVER.

and here's Zeb and Kent shooting their rifles.  I'm pretty sure it's the closest they'll get to shooting real guns.

The place really was amazing.  They had so many cool things to do.  There were crafts, coloring books, and- of course- Santa!  They even gave us Santa pictures for free! 

With Kent being off of work/school we've really gotten a good headstart on Christmas!  Zeb wakes up every morning asking if it's here yet.  The next 23 days are going to be looong!!  Luckily they are packed with all sorts of fun stuff to do.