carols by candlelight

this superstar is always on the go - and tonight we went to the carols by candlelight in aveley to watch her sing in the school choir. 

they had a good turn out of kids and sang with plenty of energy and you could tell they were having fun!

our neighbour gracie (who is joseph's bff) came along with us and kept him entertained... as you can see he was thrilled hahaha

alex loved it, but kept trying to run away the entire time - no surprises there

❤

gracie is just like part of the furniture now, she is forever at our house or joseph at theirs... we don't even notice anymore

i am absessed with this photo of doug and joseph. he doesn't smile all that much, he's very serious and quiet, but he grinned for this one and i love it.

we even bought the little electric candles for the kids and alex loved his. it made me think of years and years back when we used to have stake carols by candlelight at the reserve across from the dianella stake centre. everyone would show up and we would use real stick candles with a paper plate with a hole cut in it to make sure the wax didn't drip onto our hands and burn us. fun times.

we had a great night - and alex loved watching maddie singing "santa claus is coming to town" and the "somewhere over the rainbow/ what a wonderful world" medley.

the countdown to christmas is on!