The Holidays 2008

December is always so busy but magical as well. We started out the holidays by staying the night up at the Grand America Hotel. The kids had such a great time, we ordered room service, went swimming, went to see the lights on Temple Square and ate yummy food. I asked Noelle what her favorite part of the weekend was and she said seeing the live Nativity scene at Temple Square. It made me feel good that at such a young age she still could feel the magic and spirit of the nativity story.












The weekend was planned around the thought of having breakfast with Santa at the hotel but when we went down Saturday morning to eat breakfast guess what had been cancelled and the Cooks didn't get the memo. Yep breakfast with Santa. I was so bummed and the kids were way disappointed....especially Noelle. She thinks that the whole Christmas season is for her because her birthday is Christmas day. Any way they made it up to us by inviting us up on the 20th and giving us the best seat in the house. We were the first table Santa visited when he came in...it was awesome and worth the wait. The kids got their picture taken with he and Mrs. Claus after breakfast. What a fun morning.