LUDWICK LIFE

The Magic of Christmas through your kids eyes is one of the things I love most about this season. Without diminishing the true reason for the season and why celebrating the birth of Jesus is so important, Landon and I are not against a little Santa fun! I first heard about the Christmas Experience at JW Marriott from my aunt, Barbie and I knew from that moment we had to take our kids. Per recommendations, we made our reservations in Summer 2017 with some dear new friends and anxiously awaited for our weekend. I must say I never dreamed it would be so magical but with accumulated snow on the ground the night before and a stay-cation awaiting for us just up 281, we were in an awesome weekend! We were in for a Christmas Overload! Room from our Room Still snow on the ground View at night Smores! Sticky but Yum! Emerson boys! Story Time with Elves Light the Night right after stargazing Crashing Tetco party! Breakfast with Santa!...

Yall I might have been just a tad more excited than my kids when it started snowing the evening of December 7. But flash back to that morning and I would have never thought that it was going to snow later that night. I saw a post from Camp Mystic that they had received snow and was so excited for them but it never crossed my mind that it would snow central San Antonio.  Later on after dinner and when Landon was giving the kids a bath, I was cleaning up the kitchen and looked at the weather. It said a chance of snow late that night and into the early hours next morning. I remember thinking, we are definitely waking up the kids if it does snow. Right then I saw some really thick raindrops out the kitchen window and went outside to take a closer look. Sure enough it was snowing and it was starting to stick. The weather app updated immediately and we got the kids out of the tub and dressed so they could witness and see snow for the first time.  It was amazing watching the...