The Candlelight Christmas & Teeth

Last year was the first year we attended This is the Place Heritage Park's, Candlelight Christmas.  We liked it so much, we decided to make it a yearly tradition!  We invited our dear friends Matt, Heather & Trin. And my sister Kathy brother-in-law, Derrick to join us this year.

This is a state run park has houses built to depict the homes that were first built here in the 1800s.  Each home, the church, and hotel has different activities to do inside that are pioneer period themed.  There is also a wonderful stable where a LIVE Nativity is depicted with all the animals and their natural aroma filling the stable.  On the other end of the part in the Brigham Young home, Father Christmas is there along with real LIVE Reindeer!

Uncle D got really into the crafts!

Silly "D"

Jeff and Derrick

Do ya think perhaps that we married our soul mates??? They are sillier than we are!

Jake looking at the LIVE Nativity.  He was very touched by this.

Jake and Father Christmas.

The gang with Father Christmas.  FYI. When it says: look don't touch, they really mean it!  Just ask Kath!

Jake and the Reindeer!

Jake, Kath and D.  He's so lucky to have so many love him.

We had a great time!  There is a train that takes you over to the other side of the park to see father Christmas.  The train comes about every 8 minutes.  Apparently we, meaning myself, Kathy, Derrick, Jeff and Jake, did not properly get on the train as one person felt like we should.  So all this angry woman and her daughter chewed us out until they got off the train.  What was interesting, is there was no right way to get on and off the train, this woman just felt there was.  We ended up laughing about it because it seems so very silly.  Life is too short to always have to be right!!!

But the big news for the night was Jake's tooth. Before going to the park, we had dinner at Sizzler.  Jake has had a loose front tooth, for a while.  Something he ate at that meal further loosened his tooth. Kathy has been a Dental Assistant for 10 years.  Once she saw the thing dangling tooth in Jacob's mouth, she could hardly take it!  All night she she kept asking Jacob if she could just pull it out.   For a while he refused.  Near the end of the night as the tooth slowly tried to exit from his mouth, he decided he would let his Aunt Kathy, whom he adores, to pull it out.

Look at that tooth, just waiting to come out!

Look a that thing flapping  in the breeze!

So on the way home in the our "super hip," minivan, Kathy tilted his chair back as if he was in the dentist's chair Uncle Derrick held his hands, and Kathy very gently and kindly pulled out his tooth! A few "ouch, ouch's,"a little bit of blood, and out it came.  The boy did not shed a tear! I hope the girl is paid enough, she was fantastic!

After the minor surgery, one happy kid, one great auntie!

Exhasted, Jake conked out on the way home.  Jeff picked him up and laid him on the front room floor.  The picture below is of Jake sound asleep with his eye lids half open.  Rather fitting because his Aunt Kathy sleeps the same way!!!

Kind of a freaky picture, don't you think?