the radio city christmas spectacular

As a birthday gift for his mom, John bought tickets for ALL of us (and I do mean all… Joe, Gail & baby James, Inez, Thomas, Brendan, Sean & Aidan, Mom & Dad, and us) to go see the Radio City Christmas Spectacular.  Since the ‘menfolk’ always go to baseball games together, he figured this would be something fun for his mom and everyone else too.

The only catch was that since there were 14 of us (the baby didn’t need his own ticket) the only show that was available for all of us to go to together was the 9am on a Saturday morning. So that meant getting up at 7am, on the road by 7:45am, and into the city by 8:20am. Which we did. For me, under duress cause that’s even earlier than I have to get up to get the boys to school! And I worked the night before, shooting a party til 11:30pm and not going to bed til around 2am.

But of course the show was worth it and the kids all had a great time! I think Grandma did too!

Love watching their eyes light up at the whole spectacular spectacleness of it all.

We also celebrated Aidan’s birthday and took a picture of all the boys together again back at grandma & grandpa’s house.

We are headed over there again tonight for Christmas Eve and then on the plane tomorrow afternoon to Florida. Can’t wait!!!