Family Night.

Tonight we had a special family night... just the 4 of us.  It was something I had been looking forward to all week!  We started out by treating the kids to dinner at their favorite restaurant, Steak -n- Shake.

After we got back in the car from dinner, I gave them each a small box that had a ticket and jingle bell necklace.  The ticket was for a ride on the "Christmas Express," a.k.a our van, to go see some Christmas lights.  {I found the tickets on pinterest... cute idea!}

I had heard of an amazingly decorated house on facebook that we decided to check out first...

It was really cool, and bright!  We all loved it.  All the other lights we saw after that weren't as spectacular.

After our little "Christmas Express" light tour, we headed home, hopped in our pj's and settled down to watch Home Alone with popcorn.  Joel and I both have good memories of watching this movie as kids, but in hindsight, thought maybe ours were still a little young to watch it.  There were a few bad words in it, that we had forgotten about.  But we talked about it and did enjoy it.

And that was the end of our Family Night.  Love my family and look forward to many more moments and memory makers like this!