Last year during the holidays I was either on bed rest (Thanksgiving), or had a newborn baby (born Dec. 8th), so our Thanksgiving and Christmas season was very low-key, to say the least, and I felt like we didn't really do any fun Christmas outings with Tyson. This year we're making up for lost time ;-) So far we've gone to the "Star Lighting" which is where the town illuminates a big star on top of Castle Rock, near our house. We met up with friends and went to that and then did dinner afterwards. It was neat, but also short, and Ty couldn't understand why we couldn't see the "rock star," as he called it, light up again (it just stays lit through sometime after Christmas).
A couple weekends ago we packed up the kids and headed downtown Denver on an impromptu adventure. I had a Groupon for a pizza place downtown, and Robin mention going down to see the ceremonial lighting of the city building, so we combined the two for a fun family outing! We don't have a big entertainment budget these days, so it was a really fun treat to go out for dinner with our little family of four, and then spend some time downtown all bundled up together. We listened to Christmas music in the car, and Tyson made faces at Jersey so she was laughing hysterically. I dont' know why, but it was just a special night for me...with my own family that I love and adore, and a night out together at a magical time of year.
Forewarning...the picture quality from the night is NOT great! So these photos are just to document what we did...but they aren't exactly frameable material. Oh well!
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| Getting ready for the building (behind them) to light up, live news crews and a big stage with choirs going in the background. |
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| I think all of the pictures are slightly creepy because it was so dark and the bright flash made all of us look bug-eyed, lol! |
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| Right before the lighting... |
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| And right when it was lit up! We didn't take any pictures of how it looked over the course of the next 20 minutes or so as music blasted and there was an awesome lights show of so many colors and combinations all set to the music. It was so pretty!! |
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| All bundled up in front of the city building. |
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| Our sad attempt at a picture of the three of us, ha ha ha. Jersey was so bundled up in the stroller we didn't want to get her out and then have her be frustrated to be buckled right back in. The girl seriously needs to learn to walk...outings would be much more fun for her! |
Well there you have it. More Christmas traditions to come over the next few weeks. Kids at Christmas time make it even more special!
