This year during the holidays there was a lot to do near where we live so we tried to take advantage of some of them. My favorite were all the Christmas concerts! FM100.3 always has mini-concerts during lunch in the mall so we went to a few and they were really good!
The first concert we went to was Jim Brickman...I am a big fan so I was super excited to see him perform in person!
And our family got to meet him after and get some things signed.
The next concert we went to was Wayne Burton and Voicemale. Some of you may not know that Bryan's brother James was one of the original members of Voicemale at Utah State. It was a great concert!
The last concert we went to was Jon Schmidt and Joshua Creek.
Jon Schmidt is such a great performer as you can see, with lots of energy and fun music! He even did an encore after the radio broadcast.
Joshua Creek was a fun group with some great songs!
The best concert of the season...and the most exciting for me was the Mormon Tabernacle Choir Christmas concert with David Archuleta. Everyone probably knows how lucky you had to be to get tickets, but we were able to get 2 tickets for Friday night. Annie and her friend Rob came down to tend the kids so Bryan and I could go on a much needed date to the concert. We rode TRAX to Temple Square and got to see some Christmas lights and I think that was one of the best concerts I've been to in my life. The Orchestra was amazing, the Choir was inspiring as always and David Archuleta sounded awesome! One of my favorite moments was when President Monson came in pushing his wife in her wheelchair and 20,000 people stood in complete silence. We also got to see President Uchdorf and his wife come in and it was just a very special evening for us. The only problem we had was on the way back down the TRAX train wouldn't let us off at our stop because the button was broken so we had to go to the next stop and wait for the train to go back up to where we were parked.
This year I didn't decorate too much for the holidays (we still don't even have anything on our walls yet), because the place is small and it is only a temporary spot. We did put up our little tree and Lexie and Hoyt wouldn't leave it alone. Hoyt started army crawling that month so he would crawl over and grab the lights and ornaments.
We also decided to go to Festival of Trees since it was so close to our house. We saw a lot of cool trees there that were a lot more fancy than ours. This one was cool for a sports fan like me. It had signed memorabilia from Steve Young, the Jazz, Real Salt Lake, U of U, and much more. They had people closely monitoring this tree for sure!
Lexie by the Winnie the Pooh tree while holding her Pooh Bear.
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This picture shows the sticker on her face that turned out to be traumatic. We went to the kids corner place and Lexie said she wanted her face painted. Well, they went to put the sticker on her face, but when they stuck the sponge on her face with a tiny bit of water she flipped out and started screaming and people thought she was being tortured or something. Ah, adventures of a 2-year-old!
The nativity tree was really cool. I took a picture for my mom because she loves to collect nativities so I thought she would like the tree.
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