ICE!

To celebrate my mom's birthday we decided to go and see ICE! with the Grinch Who Stole Christmas. It is an ice sculpture display at the Gaylord Texan Resort. It was made by Chinese artisians who use over one million pounds of ice to create beautiful displays taken from the Dr. Seuss book The Grinch Who Stole Christmas. It was amazing to see what they had done with ice, and we sat guessing at how they could make it work. Before we went I had Brody watch the Grinch movie so he would get a refresher of the story. At first he was very upset that Christmas was ruined, but he was glad the Grinch's heart grew and he brought Christmas back to Whoville. Such a cute cute story for kids (it was my favorite Christmas cartoon growing up)

We waited in a line and when we got close we got on the jackets and hats and mittens we had brought. The room is kept at a frigid 9 degrees. We turned another corner of the line and we were issued additional parkas to wear over our coats to keep us warm and to use when going down the slides. Seeing Ella in this huge parka, over a coat was hilarious. We couldn't find her arms for awhile and she walked like a penguin and even took a couple of face plants. Once we were finally dressed appropriately we went inside and the kids loved looking at the displays and especially going down the slides. It was breath taking what they could do with ice.

Our little ones before the parkas made them twice as bulky

Cuddling to keep warm

I Can't Put My Arms Down...(can you name that Christmas movie??)

Our group...minus Aunt Stephie (our photographer) who was able to come with us while she was home for Thanksgiving

The Grinch Who Stole Christmas!

Our family with the Grinch

The birthday girl with Ella

We found her arms!

Brody on the slide

Ella on the slide

Daddy on the slide

Christmas came with out packages or bows and the Who's still sang their Christmas carols...

Two very excited little Who's who are loving all the lights, decorations and celebrating! The joy that these two little people have while experiencing all the holiday fun is the best Christmas gift ever!

An attempt at a Christmas card photo...I don't think it will be used...but my camera died right afterwards so we couldn't try for a better shot. They were brave enough to shed their coats for the picture though!