Seattle Santa Day

Thursday was our annual Seattle Santa day. My mom and I have gone every year for years to spend one day in Seattle enjoying the lights and festivities of the city. We also do a little shopping and of course visit Santa at Macy's.

As soon as Declan woke up from his morning nap, Grammy, Declan and I headed to Seattle. We parked at Pacific Place and headed upstairs to see the nutcrackers on display around the mall. We also visited Santa's Cabin.

  While we were at Santa's Cabin, Santa invited Declan to come and talk with him. Declan really liked Santa and smiled and smiled at him. Santa asked Declan if he liked to read and Declan shook his head yes! I was in shock, he never shakes his head yes! Santa asked if he liked to play with cars and trucks and he shook his head yes again! We said good bye to Santa after talking a few more minutes. We admired more nutcrackers around Santa's Cabin.

Then we headed outside and checked out the Christmas Tree by Westlake Center. We did a little shopping but didn't buy anything before heading over to Macy's. Declan loved looking at the Macy's Star. He stared and stared at it. We went to Santa Land on the 6th floor. The three of us waited for Papa and Daddy to meet us so we could visit Santa. Once they arrived, Declan eagerly sat with Santa for several pictures. Then we all checked out the reindeer around Santa Land. 

After visiting Santa, we walked over to the Sheraton Hotel to see the giant, elaborate gingerbread houses. 

Here's the gingerbread house that Brad's firm created:

A gingerbread house of Seattle:

Next we went to the Arc'teryx store. Declan loved looking at himself in the mirror. 

We took Declan for a ride on the carousel at Westlake Center. It was very windy but he loved it.

 When we walked to the third floor of Pacific Place to eat dinner, we found another nutcracker!

Christmas Tree Day!

We arrived home from DC and crawled into our warm beds at 4 AM Sunday morning. We got up a few hours later and headed to Snohomish to go get our Christmas tree with Grammy and Papa. Grammy had fresh caramel rolls waiting for us when we arrived. Then we headed up to Reade's Christmas Tree Farm. We chose our trees pretty quickly. Brad chopped ours down while Grammy and Pop looked for their tree.

We went back to Grammy and Papa's house and ate Thanksgiving leftovers before taking our tree home. Grammy and Papa are full service and delivered the tree to our house.

Brad and Papa took our old couch out of the garage and took it to the Goodwill after the tree was in the tree stand.