Christmas Outings

We took a family outing last night and went downtown SLC to check out the decorations at the Grand America hotel.  None of us had ever been to the Grand America and we were definitely impressed with how "grand" it was.

 

They had all of the shop windows decorated with elves and parts of Santa's workshop.  They had handouts with a quiz about the windows on them.  If you went through and answered all the questions you got a candy at the end.  They also had a huge, over 6 feet tall, gingerbread house.  The kids loved it.

 

Afterward we rode the train down to the City Creek shopping area and had diner.  The kids love riding the train.  They think that it is an adventure.

We finally got home around 9 pm and put the kids to bed.  It was cold, but it was worth it.  :-)

Grandma's Christmas Tree

A couple of weekends ago Grandma Rhonda put up the kids Christmas tree in her basement.  She always lets the kids helps her decorate it.  Will helped for a bit, but then went off to play.  Lilly stayed through most of it.

 

Lilly got her stool from the bathroom and put it next to the tree so that she could get to the higher branches.  She would go pick an ornament from the table and then climb onto her stool to place it on a branch.  Pretty soon there was a small area right at her eye level that was covered with ornaments, but not much anywhere else on the tree!  We evened it out for her after she went to bed.  :-)