Christmas Festivities

The Christmas Season is in full swing! We are making the most of it and loving every moment!

• Decorating our Tree- We had our Christmas music playing and pine candle going. It felt and smelt like Christmas. Sage of course is still a little young to put the ornaments on the tree but she was a good little helper handing each ornament to us as we put them up. She enjoyed playing with her nativity set as we decorated. 

• City Creek Macy's Candy Window Displays- We bundled up and walked around City Creek. The candy displays in Macy's windows are pretty neat. We also went and said hi to Santa. Sage did not like him, but afterwards kept saying "ho ho." We ate dinner at The Cheesecake Factory.

• Gardner Village Elf Displays- Our good friends the Averyts joined us. The Elves are kind scary looking. Sage enjoyed looking at them anyways. We got a peppermint frozen hot chocolate which Sage just loved. Mmmmm mmmm. She also got to sit on the horses. The Averyts came over for dinner and we watched the game.

• Live Nativity- We bundled up and went to the Draper Live Nativity on Tuesday night. It was cold and there was a huge line. We didn't make it all the way through, but it sure was neat. It was a nice way to start the Christmas season. 

• Heber Valley Railroad Santa Train- We went on a 45 minute train ride, which played Christmas music and Santa came through. Once again Sage was scared. We are hoping by the time we want her sit with him she will have warmed up to him... We saw deer on our ride, which Sage of course loved! 

• Christmas Party- Sage's grandma and grandpa Fenton have a party for all the kids at the beginning of the month. We eat yummy food, visit and Jeanne always plans fun games for the kids. They also give the kids a couple early presents- Christmas jammies, a Christmas book and this year they got the Three Wise Men and the shepherds to add to their nativity set that they got last year. They also got adorable hooded towels. Sage got the cutest elephant and Harper got a cute little frog. 

• Christmas Advent Calendar- We have started our advent calendar. Each day has a little activity to do together. They are simple things like sing Christmas songs by the Christmas Tree or make hot chocolate. We watched a few bible stories of Christ's birth and acted them out with Sage's nativity, gone to the library to check out some Christmas books, stirred hot chocolate with candy canes and also checked out the window displays at the Grand America.