"Decking the Halls"

I had a one of those moments the other day where your motherly intuition is telling you that perhaps you should go see what your 4 year old is doing... but you're too wrapped up in watching that DVR'd episode of last night's Glee to pause it and check on said 4 year old. 4 year old was extremely proud of his "decorations" he put up (in an astonishly short amount of time, I have no idea how he did it so quickly), that I couldn't get mad and I couldn't bear to take it down for a few days.

Way to get into the Christmas spirit, little man!

Now that Alex is getting older, I really want to create memories for him during the holidays. Alex and I kicked off the month by going to the Festival of Trees and had a great time, went to a showing of The Polar Express at the movie theatre, but otherwise really haven't done much.
We haven't gone to see the lights at Temple Square for a few years and thought it would be a lovely way to spend a Sunday evening.

Now, I love my husband dearly, but I really must remember that these types of outings are funner without him. He dislikes crowds, and no matter when you go to Temple Square at Christmastime... there's just no getting around it. Consequently, he turns into the Grinch and I get ticked off because he's putting a damper on my mission to make a memory.

Did Alex enjoy it? Hard to say. Poor little guy kept having to pee every 15 minutes because it was so cold outside. I did get a few nice pictures though...

I got Alex and I (without Steve) back on the Christmas spirit path today by making Christmas cookies. Baking and decorating sugar cookies with a 4 year old turned into a 3 hour long chore, but seeing how excited he was to deliver plates to neighbors made it all worthwhile. Especially when our Hispanic neighbor answered the door to see this cute little guy proclaim, "FELIZ NAVIDAD!!"