Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Pony Rides and Smiles

Monday night our family continued a tradition started a few years ago of spending time on the Fayetteville Square during Lights of the Ozarks.


Each year we take photos of the boys with the Christmas lights (as shown in the previous blog entry, "Photos on the Square"), take photos of the lights themselves, and, for the last three years, have pictures made of the boys riding the ponies from Playtime Ponies. Since pictures with Santa have never been exactly happy events with the boys, but I still wanted something special for Christmas, this became a great option for me (and Nana liked having the pictures, too). I wasn't sure Tyler would still want to do it this year, since he's getting older, but he became excited after we watched them for a moment.

Unfortunately, Shawn thought we were going to get to ride the horse drawn carriage, so he was momentarily disappointed.

The ponies won out, though, and the boys seemed to have a great time. Shawn was curious about everything, so each time around he was trying to investigate another part of the pony or the tent

Tyler cooperated beautifully with the camera.


Shawn also enjoyed it, though in the end he wound up giving us another photo of the back of his head.


My sweet, photogenic boy knows how to smile for the camera (now if he'd only do that every time...)

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