We have found another perk of living in Dallas (that helps with my homesickness for LBK) and that is this: we are minutes away from everything Cowboys! The Star (which is the Cowboys new-ish practice facility) hosts a "Christmas Spectacular" every weekend during December, so we headed out with the kids last Friday afternoon for a very fun (and cold!) evening.
Our night began with reservations to take photos with Santa in the "Cowboys Cottage". Our time slot lasted for five minutes and I was so impressed at how well the kids did talking and (semi) smiling for the photos. Parker told Santa he wanted a robot and Legos and Hayes said he wanted a race car (which Santa did NOT know and will need to remedy ASAP). Lily wouldn't tell him what she wanted and mostly just showed him her reindeer shirt and blankie.
I was also very impressed with the big guy himself--he was really kind and really good at getting the kids to warm up and sit on his lap--which they did for our entire time slot! No tears! A Christmas miracle for sure.
The final product.
Cutie patooties!
After we got our photo, we walked over to Raising Cane's (which is in the same giant complex) to eat dinner. There are like 24 other fancy/cool restuarants to eat at but we went the kiddie route since chicken and french fries are a pretty safe bet in our household.
It had rained all morning and most of the day, so I was thankful that it stopped in time for the show!
In January, The Star will be hosting a giant Lego building weekend so they had a few Lego "statues" around the campus to advertise. Parker, our Lego expert, was of course very excited about this (and we will of course be attending!)
After dinner and our Lego excursion, we watched the boys "play" football with random kids, fought with Lily over keeping her hat on, and froze our hineys off while waiting for the show to start.
Once it got started, we quickly realized that it was QUITE the production!!
We got to see the cheerleaders up close (like literally standing right in front of us) which was very cool and I was very star struck as I am a long-standing fan of "Making The Team" on CMT.
The show had soooooo much going on and included performances from the cheerleaders, hip hop team, a kids hip hop team, the drumline, the grand entrance of Santa himself, and fireworks!
They counted down to light the tree and then to my probably really nerdy excitement, Jason Witten walked over and shook my hand and gave the boys high fives!! (He was the "special guest" who lit the tree.) It was so cool and I don't have any photo evidence of this but I DO have a video on YouTube (which totally misses his interaction with the boys because I was so in shock I forgot to point the camera in their direction.)
A bad photo of the grand finale....
And this is the kind of photo you get with three sugar-highed, over-stimulated kids. Hayes looks miserable in all of these photos, but I promise he was super cute and happy (most of the time).
After the show was over, we walked over to one of the coffee shops and got hot chocolate and cookies and headed home. It was great night!
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