a new christmas tradition

** December 19, 2015 **

I love starting new traditions with this little family of mine!

Especially around the holidays!

I'd heard about the Christmas lights at the Fairmont Scottsdale Princess resort for years, but we'd never made it out there until this year.

The grounds at the Princess Resort are already beautiful, but they are all decked out in christmas lights this time of year, which just makes them even more beautiful!

There is so much to see and do there!

You can ride a christmas train around the grounds to see all the lights...

There's a carousel ride for the kids...

There is an ice skating rink...

 You can take pictures with Santa...

There were elves and a snow queen walking around that the kids could say hi to and take pictures with...

Every night at 6 and 9 pm they have a 10 minute christmas light presentation at the front of the resort, where the lights change all set to music and there is a projection on the side of the hotel, making it look like a gingerbread house...

There are cute little christmas gift shops set up all over and little hot cocoa stands everywhere you turn...

There's a petting zoo...

And all over the grounds there are fire pits where you can roast marshmallows and make s'mores.

It was seriously amazing!

We all loved it so much that we decided to make it a yearly tradition, only next year we want to book a room and actually stay a night at the hotel!

Beckett kept calling this elf "Buddy" cuz thats the name of our Elf on the Shelf ;)

Thanks for coming with us, Aunt Kelcie!

Before we left, we stopped into one of the little christmas shops and bought a christmas ornament to remember our first year at the Fairmont Scottsdale Princess :)

I'm already looking forward to next year!