Here the kids are by the Sorenson tree.
Next we headed to the "big" city. We met up with the Knabenshue's in downtown Denver. We had dinner at one of our special spots and then enjoyed the lights on the 16th Street Mall.
It meant a lot to me to take EJ down to the City & County Building as I have memories of doing that as a child and Eric and I went there the night we got engaged--10 years ago! How fun to share that with EJ. He loved the lights and ran up and down the blue stairs with other kids.
We had so much fun downtown that EJ and I took grandma and grandpa back downtown but this time we took the "train" (light rail), rode the bus up and down 16th Street Mall, and took a horse and carriage ride with Mr. Sox, a beautiful black clydesdale with white hooves. Here's EJ on the light rail. His favorite part was looking at the tracks and passing other "trains."
Grandma got this shot of us next to our carriage and Mr. Sox.
Here's Grandma and EJ ready to ride.
EJ was sufficiently worn out from our adventure and had to "rest" on the ride home.
One night we headed to the mall to see Santa in the Narnia globe. The wait was three hours so thankfully we had already seen Santa in Lincoln and we could simply enjoy seeing the globes.
We took EJ to Christmas Eve service and had a nice dinner when we got home. Then we tracked Santa on the Norad website. EJ got quite a kick out it.
Thankfully, Santa made it to our house and left EJ the rocketship he had asked for. Christmas was a fun day of playing and relaxing. I can say that because Eric made breakfast and my parents made dinner. Somehow I got out of cooking duties this year!
Eric made vanilla custard french toast. It was wonderful!
It's was grandma's goal to have a "sparkly" Christmas and it was accomplished. Christmas with a 3 year-old was magical and fun. We all enjoyed it greatly.
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