More Utah pictures

After the craziness of Christmas settled down, we hit up a bunch of our favorite spots. One day, Kate, my mom, and I headed to Salt Lake to see the decorated "windows" at Grand America. They used to do this at the old ZCMI, and we went there every year on our Christmas trip to Salt Lake, so it was fun to see them again (and of course it was great to be back at Grand America--it brought back so many wonderful memories of our wedding!) We also visited the new French bakery (which is in the space the floral shop used to be) and got some yummy treats.

We then headed to the Spaghetti Factory (of course!) and did some shopping afterward at Trolley Square. Kate then fell asleep, so we figured we should take advantage of the situation and head home (since she, unlike 95% of children, HATES the car, and the ride down was a veritable screamfest), so instead of walking around Temple Square, we just drove around it. We could still see quite a bit, though, and it was beautiful, as always.

We then went to the Christmas Village in Ogden and walked around that. Kate was awake by then, and she absolutely LOVED all the lights and houses. It's so fun to see her get so excited about things!


Before heading to Salt Lake


Love this shot!


Pretty purple girl on Nana's purple couch


Such a pretty girl!


So big!


So big... again!




On the couch at Grand America. She saw some little kids walking by (and she loves other kids), which is why she looks so intrigued.




Grand America--in gingerbread form










At the Christmas Village in Ogden. As a joke, we took Kate's picture next to the Mexican-themed house, since we always laugh that my little baby with the Hispanic last name looks... not Hispanic at all!




In the chair I had my first Christmas


Ok, enough of this chair business


Grandpa's girl