Cedar Lake Christmas Tree Farm

It's that time of year again!! CHRISTMAS TIME!! 

And time to get ourselves our real Christmas tree. It's something that the kids, Courtney and I truly look forward to each year. Even though it's not too fun to clean up after, I love the smell of a real Christmas tree. 

As we were noticing the Christmas tree stands going up around town, I realized that we needed to find a good place to find our perfect Christmas tree. Thankfully, I didn't have to look very far because in that same day we got a flyer through the mail from a Christmas tree farm. 

Cedar Lake Christmas Tree Farm was the perfect spot for us to find our Christmas tree this year and I am pretty sure that Cedar Lake will become the Polnicky's spot to find our Christmas tree each year. 

Cedar Lake offered many trees that were already cut down, but they also had an option to go out on their farm and cut one down yourself. This time around we opted to look through the ones they had out for us already and we ended up picking the very first tree that we looked at. 

Along with Christmas trees, Cedar Lake also had animals on their farms, which the kids loved. They probably would have stood there all day watching the animals, if we allowed them to.

The Polnicky's 2016 Christmas tree

Only McKaila wanted to visit with Santa

Happy Thanksgiving 2016

We were lucky enough to have some visitors for Thanksgiving this year. Grandma and Grandpa Kuipers. As our first Thanksgiving here in North Carolina, we were happy that some family were able to come be with us. The kids always look forward to Grandma and Grandpa time, no matter what the occasion is. 

And Thanksgiving isn't complete without some football. We were all decked out in our Detroit Lions gear, well... besides Daddy. He wore his Dallas Cowboy attire. 

It was a good Thanksgiving for our teams as well as us... our teams WON and our bellies were very, very full!

Time to fry up the turkey

Logan hasn't been a big fan of picture taking lately

Turkey came out amazing!

Thanksgiving feast

We ended our Thanksgiving day by going to Charlotte Motor Speedway to go see all the Christmas lights. We had been hearing all about it, so we thought it would be a great time to go. 

The Speedway Christmas was awesome and it will be a part of our family tradition from here on out. And since it was so cool, I am pretty sure we will go again before Christmas is over. 

We didn't really know what to expect going there and didn't know what was all involved, but what a fun time we all had. 

After riding on the actual track to look at the lights, they wind you all around the inside of the track. There was lights everywhere and at the start of it, there was a sign to tune into a certain radio station. There was music going to the Christmas lights. It was pretty awesome! 

I didn't even look into the light show at the speedway, but once we got done, come to find out there was more to it. You can actually go to a drive in movie and watch a Christmas movie on the big screen and you can also go into the petting zoo area and see the goat, sheep, turkeys, etc. The kids were very happy when grandma and grandpa bought them some food to feed all the animals. They had such a blast doing that. There was also some food and hot cocoa to enjoy along with some booths to do some Christmas shopping.

The kids even got to meet Santa. McKaila has always been all about Santa, McKenna not so much. Logan, well, we wasn't too sure on what to think. 

It was a great, fun Thanksgiving filled with lots of smiles and family time.