Lights at Temple Square

One of my favorite Christmas traditions is seeing the Christmas lights at Temple Square.  They are just so absolutely beautiful.  There is always such a peaceful feeling there and I think it is so cozy seeing all of the cute families all bundled up enjoying the lights and the beautiful surroundings of Temple Square. 

I love the Salt Lake Temple.  This is where Paul and I were married, and it is definitely my favorite temple.  It looked extra beautiful with the Christmas lights surrounding it.

Porter had a lot of fun running around looking at all of the lights.  We got a pretty late start so he was pretty tired and didn’t last very long before he was ready to head home to bed.

But we still had a wonderful night.  I hope we can squeeze in one last trip to see the lights at Temple Square before the season ends!

Here Comes Santa Claus

Porter was actually super excited to see Santa Claus this year.  Over and over he told us that he needed to go and visit Santa so that he could tell him that he wanted a hammer and a saw for Christmas..haha.  So Paul and I decided to take him to Thanksgiving Point to see Santa.  Here is cute little Porter all dressed up ready to go and see Santa.  

We procrastinated and went the last night that they had Santa there.  We were told that the line would be around 45 minutes, but it ended up being about 2 hours!  Way too long.  Thank goodness that there was a little boy behind us that was around Porter’s age that played with Porter a lot of the time.  Last year Porter wanted absolutely nothing to do with Santa so we were excited to see what happened this year.  When we finally made it up to Santa, Porter just bounced up to sit on his lap. 

Porter had just gotten over a cold and made sure Santa knew that his tummy hurt and that he was a little bit sick..poor little guy.  Then Porter started getting nervous and almost started crying.  He jumped off Santa’s lap and ran towards us.  But then he was fine and so excited that he had sat on Santa’s lap.

Kangaroo Zoo

Our great friends Sara and Cameron invited Porter and I for a fun afternoon at Kangaroo Zoo.  It was our first time there and PORTER ABSOLUTELY LOVED IT.  Those 2 boys bounced for hours and had a blast.  They were so much fun to watch.

Porter and Cameron had absolutely no fear.  You should have seen them climbing up on the huge bounce houses and sliding down face first on their stomachs.  I couldn’t stop laughing it was so funny.

This is definitely an awesome place to take your kids if you need them to get a lot of energy out and to take a long nap!   Thanks so much Sara and Cam for such a fun afternoon.  Let’s go again soon!!

Dinosaur Museum

Porter has been to this Dinosaur Museum a couple of times before, but this time was the best time yet.  I think his age right now was perfect because he was so interested in everything.  Every time we would see a dinosaur he would say, “Mommy..whisper..shhhh.. I see a dinosaur coming, WOW..Oh my gosh”.  He was so excited he could hardly stand it.  What a funny kid!  It was so much fun to be there with him. 

I love how interactive and hands on this museum is.  They have a really fun place where you can dig in water and sand and build your own little dinosaur village, they have a place were you can build your own dinosaur out of a ton a different pieces and at the very end you can dig for dinosaur bones.

 

We spent a good 3 hours there and had so much fun.  The rest of the day all Porter talked about was the big huge dinosaurs that he saw at the museum.