Christmas Past & Christmas Present

Ok, this weekend was awesome!

We stayed at the beautiful and historic Hotel San Carlos in Downtown Phoenix. Brass elevator doors, a pool on the roof, and suites named for stars who stayed there... the whole works! They even have stars in the sidewalk out front with the names of stars! Apparently, they also have a ghost tour which we were unable to attend because of timing... but wouldn't it be so cool to go back there for that?!!!

The purpose of the stay at the hotel, though, was to go to Alice Cooper's Christmas Pudding!!! Grammy bought tickets for everyone in the family (Thank you, Grammy)!!! Let me tell you, this was an AWESOME concert, and all for charity, too! Check it out at www.alicepudding.com !

Look what Grammy gave me!

This ornament was made by Granny, it's porcelain and hand painted! It's one of three (two santas and an angel) that were given to Mariah, Erick, and myself. How cool is that!!!

So, after days of looking at lonely little Smokey under the tree...

I've finally wrapped most of the presents! Doesn't the tree just look more complete now?

So, tonight, we'll be packing for a little weekend trip to Phoenix to go see Alice Cooper's Christmas Pudding!!! Grammy bought tickets for the whole family to go! Thanks Grammy! We'll be staying at the historic Hotel San Carlos in downtown Phoenix... it looks so cool on the website! And, they have ghost tours, which we will unfortunately have to miss on this trip because of the timing with the concert. But, this should be a very awesome weekend!