every year, i love to go downtown with the family to enjoy christmas in the city. i love to see all the decor, the bustling of the sidewalks and stores, and experience some typical holiday activities.

it was crowded. the weather was unseasonably warm, hitting 50 degrees and such. so, the masses were out. people were swarming everywhere and it was very difficult for us to maneuver through the streets with a car. we finally made it to a parking garage {um…block 37, you have the craziest parking garage} and went on our merry way to meet up with the rest of the fam.

[daley center christkindlmarket – i don’t know how anyone got anything there…it was soooo jam packed]

we decided to take the elevator because we had the stroller, ah, big mistake. it took us at least 10-15 minutes to finally nab one and it was the worst elevator ride i have ever been on {you can get details in person if you’d like to know the nightmare experience}. we finally made it to the seventh floor to nab some grub! kim and famille were already there. we said our hello’s then walked around to see what we wanted to eat. i love that olive is at a place where she will eat our food. so whatever we get, she will munch on. it’s so much easier than hauling her food around. especially if it needed to warmed or just the clean up was a pain.

[i’m loving olive’s cute holiday outfit, she has on green socks 🙂 ]

[chillin’ and eatin’]

after eating, we finally made it up to tree! the tree sits in the walnut room and is 45 feet high! every year, macy’s decorates it with a different theme. the kids got to enjoy the tree while i nursed olive. thank goodness it’s in their furniture section. i got a comfy couch to sit on while i nursed her!

[45 foot great tree in the walnut room]

[goofy monkeys]

[oh bennett!]

after viewing the trees, we walked over to their ornament department but before we headed into the ornament section, bennett and reagan dropped off their wish lists for santa in their north pole mailbox! it was so cute, i love the christmas season and spirit…it’s so magical.

macy’s has this section where they have all their christmas ornaments, decor, and goodies all in one place. there is so much to look at! it’s pretty cool to see all their themed trees and we get to pick out some fun ornaments for our tree; we each pick out an ornament each year to build our tree swag!

[writing letters to santa]

[sending letters to santa]

[heading into ornament land]

after we hit up the ornament department, we grabbed ourselves some starbucks. i bought olive the vanilla milk, she has never had cow’s milk and i thought it would be great for her to try. oh boy, she loved it. she drank and drank and drank it. i then gave her a madeline to nibble on {in a time lapse of an hour} and then i handed her the milk carton again. we were chillin’ on the second floor at block 37, with the famille, i was sitting on a chair with olive when a stream of vomit flew out of her mouth!!! oh em gee. it splashed onto her pants, shirt, my coat, my shirt, and all over my leggings. what. a. disaster. hc and terry took olive {screaming btw} and ran to the bathroom to clean up. there was a huge line for the water closets, i swiftly passed all of them and headed for the sink. i explained myself to the gals waiting and they were all so understanding. they were like…been there, done that and so empathetic with me.

[a day wouldn’t be complete without a starbucks run]

[olive loving, like loving the vanilla milk from starbucks]

[shopping at anthropologie!]

[my brother in law and me, being silly]

well, needless to say, we were dunzo. we wrapped ourselves up and headed out to go back to the ‘burbs. all in all, despite olive being super grumpy all day and then vomiting on me, it was a fun day in the city! 🙂

xoxo