SUNDAY Holiday excellence at the annual Christmas Joy concerts by the First Presbyterian Church Sanctuary Choir and Kids Choir along with Colorado Springs Children’s Chorale and a full orchestra at Pikes Peak Center, 1:30 and 4:30 p.m. Sunday. Also featuring guitarist Wayne Wilkinson and operat ic bass-baritone Alvy Powell. Tickets: firstprescos.org and Pikes Peak Center Box Office. SUNDAY Families are invited to a Holiday on the Hill celebration with the Colorado Springs Police Department on the hill above 8th Street at Gold Hill Substation, 955 W. Moreno Ave. Meet the different CSPD units and the officers, have refreshments, visit with Santa, learn new activities, and there’s a toy to take home. Lots of fun from 3 to 6 p.m. coloradosprings.gov/holiday-on-the-hill THURSDAY-SUNDAY A full weekend in Cripple Creek includes a holiday parade. Thursday is Winter Wonderland Community Christmas Party, 3:30-6:30 p.m., at Aspen Mine Center, tinyurl.com/4k8tcp8u.  On Saturday, there’s the noon Christmas Parade, preceded at 11 a.m. with hot chocolate, cider and s’mores at Gold Camp Country Christmas Day, Aspen Mine Center. Parade info: tinyurl.com/bdddne33.  At 3:30 p.m., the Springs Chorale Holiday Concert at Cripple Creek Baptist Church, 137 N. 1st St. SATURDAY The grand finale of the annual holiday series of three YMCA races is Saturday’s Kids’ 1K Reindeer Run and Jingle Jog 5K, 10 a.m. at Fountain-Fort Carson High School, 900 Jimmy Camp Road, Fountain. Holiday costumes if you’d like. Register: ppymca.org/raceseries. SUNDAY Bring the pups for Christmas shopping at Santa Paws Market, Pub Dogs Colorado, 2207 Bott Ave., for the “merry mutt market” with vendors, gifts and special treats for furry friends and their humans, too. Family fun from 4-7 p.m. Sunday. FRIDAY Put on those dancing shoes for Paradise Cove at the Yacht Rock Holiday Dance Party. These musicians will have you up and moving all evening at Stargazers Theater, 7-10:30 p.m. Friday. General admission seating, $18 plus $3 ticketing fee. stargazerstheatre.com. Doors at 6 p.m., dinner, snacks and bar available. FRIDAY-SATURDAY A favorite annual Christmas Lights Festival continues two more weekends, 6 p.m. Friday and Saturday, with a maze of more than 100,000 lights at St. Michael’s Episcopal Church, 7400 Tudor Road. For the whole family with $5 admission and donations of new toys or canned goods for the community. Stop at the fire pits for hot chocolate and s’mores. stmikeschurch.com/lights SATURDAY The snow arrived and departed but they’re thinking sunshine, hogs and flowered shirts instead at the Harleys in Hawaii Holiday Luau, 1-4 p.m. Saturday at Pikes Peak Harley-Davidson, 5867 N. Nevada Ave. There’s Hawaiian barbecue, photos with Santa, hulas, and Lokahi Giving Tree with gifts for foster children. pikespeakharleydavidson.com FRIDAY-SATURDAY The historic 1904 Boettcher Mansion Governor’s Residence, 400 E. 8th Ave. in Denver, is beautifully decorated and Gov. Jared Polis invites Coloradans to take holiday tours of “Colorado’s Home,” from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Free guided tours of the Colonial Revival site on the National Register of Historic Places are led by History Colorado docents. Recent governors are at home here only part time when the legislature is in session. coloradoshome.org/visit/holiday-tours ...read more read less