Christmas celebrations

Every year, on the day after Thanksgiving, we go to cut down our Christmas tree. And when I say we, I mean Tyler :) Me and Milo got to hang out in the car this year and wait for dad to bring back the tree.

Milo did love sitting next to the tree in the car. It always smells so delicious on the way home! It is so fun for us to be able to include Milo in on this tradition. In fact, all of our traditions are going to be extra fun this year because we have Milo with us!

On the opening night of Zoo Lights, my mom and I decided we would brave the crowds and go because the weather was so nice and warm. It ended up being a super fun night, Milo was entranced by all the lights that were everywhere.

We thought that with Milo this year we wouldn't be able to decorate the bottom of our tree. Surprisingly, he does not try and pull the ornaments off so our whole tree got to be decorated! While we were getting everything ready, Milo found entertainment by climbing on the lights box :)

We were lucky enough to get tickets to go to the Mormon Tabernacle Christmas Concert this year. We made plans to grab dinner at City Creek and look at the lights on Temple Square before the show but City Creek was packed! We basically got to look at the lights for about 5 minutes. Then Tyler took Milo home to go to bed and my mom and sister and I got to enjoy th show.

We took Milo to see Santa and Mrs. Claus up at Station Park. I was so anxious to see how Milo would react to sitting on Santa's lap, but Mrs. Claus could tell that he was about to freak out so she hurried and grabbed him and set him on her lap! He still was nervous but sat for a few seconds before crying :)

The fountains were going by Mr. and Mrs. Claus' house so, of course, this is the best way to watch them.

On another December night, we headed downtown to the Grand America Hotel. They have a bunch of window displays and a ginormous real gingerbread house. We did this very thing last year the night before Milo was born, so it was fun for us to take him here this year when he could actually see it all!

After the Grand America, we headed to the Joseph Smith Memorial Building to hear cousin Christy sing in the One Voice Children's Choir. Milo loved running around in circles around the huge tree. He also was getting very friendly with all the people watching the choir sing and would go up to them and wave and play with their shoes and other kids toys :)

We were laughing at ourselves because we spent the night out on the town, but were home by 6:45 for Milo's bed time...

I am so glad that Milo has been here for this Christmas. Everything is so much more fun and magical with a little one around. We have enjoyed every minute of it. Can't wait to see what the other Christmas' have in store for us!