christmas all over again

howabout our first family trip to frankenmuth?? all right! we had an excellent day with family and christmas all over again at this very special place. poor meredith couldn't understand why she couldn't run free all the time in the largest christmas store in the world, but she loved taking as much of it in as she could. we kept having to remind her to, 'look up' at all the pretty decorations overhead. she was consistantly pointing out most of the santa claus and frostys. she is almost as big of a fan of santa as she is of frosty! its cute to hear her talk about santa claus and the chimney. it is an amazing concept to her. she also will say reindeer with great passion. what a beautiful store bronners and zehnders both are. we had hours of fun and tasty chicken and sausage dinner together. thanx for meeting us there aunt rosemary, aunt fran and cousin mark! ohhhh i almost forgot. we got a pickle ornament for our christmas tree at bronners. next year we will start the old tradition in our family where santa claus can place the ornament on the tree and our children can find it on christmas morning. the lucky one to find it first will get a special treat. how fun right?? and we got the coolest nativity scene ornament that fits into half of a walnut shell. i thought that was cool and well, unbreakable. he. he.