Do you celebrate the anniversary of the day you got engaged? Tell your husband that you ought to. We don't do anything elaborate, but it's another excuse to do something fun and tell your kids the story of how it all happened, which we all like a lot.
Last week we bundled up and rode Trax up to see the lights on Temple Square. It was freeeeeezing! 7 degrees.
This little bundle was the warmest of all, zipped into Daddy's coat
Luckily I had taken the precaution of telling the boys several times earlier in the day, "You will be cold! You will be really, really cold, and you'll want to complain about it, but it won't help, because I will not feel bad for you, and I'll tell you there's nothing I can do about it, because there won't be, and then afterwards we will warm up with hot chocolate."
So the complaining was minimal. Also, we were wearing double socks (for some reason the boys thought that was really hiliarious).
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The lights were gorgeous. I had heard they'd scaled back the number of Christmas lights on Temple Square, and they had, but it was still so beautiful. Daisy (the warm one) just looked around happy and bright-eyed the whole time. The boys liked the fountains (still running) and the lights floating on the pond.
Afterwards we went to our favorite chocolate place. Oh, it is SO good. Hatch's Family Chocolates---it's in the Avenues---a little family-run chocolate shop that sells THE BEST hot chocolate you will ever have. It tastes like pure melted chocolate (which it basically is)---like what I always imagined the chocolate river in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory would taste like. [Remember when Willy Wonka dips out a cupful of that chocolate and gives it to Charlie? That always sounded so good to me.] If you are ever in Salt Lake, and are cold, you must go try it. The address is 390 E. 4th Ave.
Their chocolates are really delicious too. These pictured are peanut-butter-filled dark chocolates with sea salt on top---they're amazing. And Hatch's also has ice cream for sale---if we ever make it there in the summer I'm going to have their hot fudge sundae, which I've heard is great.
I don't know why it hasn't occurred to me to forewarn my kids that they're going to want to whine and it won't do them any good. I'm going to try that next time. Also, could Ky BE any cuter with his little bear mittens?!
ReplyDeleteI can't stop thinking about the chocolates and hot chocolates. We weren't going to see the lights this year, but now I feel compelled to go, just for a reason to go get some chocolate.
ReplyDeleteWe were so cold the one time we went to see the lights, I've never been back. Holy cats. And I have to stay away from the avenues, then - it will only make me regret that my family didn't come up with a really useful and thriving family business like that - instead of building airports and other useless junk. And I'm serious about that.
ReplyDeletemy word was "nonuther." Cool.