festival of lights

checking out the santa sand sculpture...always amazing!

little man joshua

getting ready for the train ride

a little excited!

the fortney girls

charleston scenes

waiting patiently to see santa

the big girls sitting on santa's lap

5 seconds after being placed on santa's knee :)

riding the carousel

susanna's fav part of the night...the puppy painting!

one of our annual traditions in charleston is to go to the festival of lights on james island. this is actually the first place caroline saw santa when john did a rotation at musc his 4th yr of med school. hard to believe that was 4 yrs ago when she was 7 months old!! we went with the mclain family and had a blast! we missed you, white family :( unlike last year when it was freezing, the weather was so mild. you never know what it's going to be like here during christmas. we rode the train, the carousel, sat in santa's lap, roasted marshmallows and saw the beautiful lights. so much fun!! except of course the babies and their dislike of santa :)