We spent Thanksgiving this year with my family but unfortunately I forgot to take pictures!
We didn't waste any time decorating for Christmas as soon as Thanksgiving was over. The kids get so excited about all of the ornaments and lights.
Selah was a big help too. Although she kept wanting to put the stockings on her feet :)
Evangeline saw the tree skirt and immediately thought to put it on as a skirt for herself. She kept twirling and twirling.
After all of our decorations were up, we went downtown for the lighting of the tree on the circle. AJ's bank hosted a fun event for families. There were lots of fancy desserts, warm drinks, and even a cookie decoration station for kids.
They even had a coloring station for kids as well.
Selah parked herself right on the floor so she could draw as well.
Then we headed outside to wait for the lights to be turned on. It was very crowded, windy, and cold!
Ari and Selah were troopers. Evangeline on the other hand is much like me...she can't stand to be cold!
We couldn't get close enough to the music on the stage so we just stuck around in an area that wasn't as crowded. You can't see it in this picture, but the line for Starbucks went about a fourth of the way around the circle. Crazy! I'm sure by the time the lights were on people still wouldn't have gotten their drinks yet.
After waiting and waiting the lights were finally turned on. We didn't expect the fireworks that came afterwards so that was a nice surprise. We couldn't see them very well but could hear them and see them reflecting off the tall buildings. Evangeline did not want to stick around for those because of the noise so we headed back to the bank.
The kids enjoyed one last dessert while we waited for the traffic to clear up before heading home.
Every year we buy new ornaments for the kids to paint, so the kids worked on these the rest of the weekend.
Even Selah did a great job keeping the paint just on hers.
With all the fun things we have planned, the rest of this year is going to fly by!
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