50 thoughts about December...

Our Cute Cute kids in their Christmas Outfits!

Our little Family

1. Beautiful
2. Fun
3. Crazy
4. Jesus Christ
5. Love
6. Shop Shop Shop
7. Christmas Eve PJs
8. Busy (is that the same as Crazy)
9. I love Christmas Sacraments
10. Christmas Clothes
11. Love Christmas morning excitement
12. Christmas Evening = Love
13. Fresh fallen snow
14. Spending only cash
15. Food
16. Smells
17. Lights
18. Temple Grounds (with the lights & nativities)
19. Nativities in our House
20. Baby Jesus
21. Mary
22. Music
23. Dance & Voice Recitals
24. The Book of Luke in the Bible
25. Fondue
26. Work & Ward Parties
27. Receiving Christmas Cards every day in the mail
28. Service
29. Sub for Santa's
30. Love
31. Friends
32. Family
33. Cooking
34. Treats
35. Weight Gain... oh just kidding just checking to see if you are still reading
36. Exercising
37. Christmas Concerts
38. A Christmas Carol at Hale Theater
39. Spending time with just the six of us!
40. Quiet evenings home by the fire with the tree lights on
41. Reminiscing about Christmases past
42. Christmas Outfits and Colors on the Sunday before Christmas
43. The smell of Cinnamon
44. The day after Christmas
45. The Birth of our Savior Jesus Christ
46. The song "Mary did you Know" and hearing Alyssa singing it!
47. Peter's Gift (a play the Shawn & Alyssa were in)
48. Homemade Christmas Candy
49. Loving Husband
50. Great Kids

Our crazy performing week...

Introducing the cast of "Peters Gift"

Shawn & Alyssa were two of the four main parts... yay! Good Job cute kids.

Shawn was hilarious! I am so proud of him... he is so natural up on stage. He absolutely loves it. He had a few solos in this play.

Alyssa was darling up there... I actually got teary eyed watching my little girl be up there. She opened up the play with a solo... the room dark and the spot light just on her. Cute!

Here is two cute boys that have been friends since they were in their Mommy's bellys. They are all grown up and going skiing with the fourth grade.

He looks like he should be on "The Christmas Story".

Dance performances...

Isn't she cute... SASSY as all get up - BUT cute!

...and finally more dance performances.

In the middle of all the performances, we have had soccer games, our ward Christmas party, Steve's work Christmas party, shopping, My work Christmas party, Young Mens and Young Womens, dance practices, dress rehearsals, scouts... anything else that I am missing?

As you can see we have been having a quiet month sitting home by the fire... reading Christmas stories, drinking hot chocolate, and cuddling... oh wait that was a relaxing dream that I had. We've been busy but I LOVE it! It is fun to watch our kids in all that they do. We have some pretty great kids.

PS - We had our annual fondue family fondue night last night... I will post pictures soon!

An almost perfect Sunday...

Church was so great.

The testimonies that were shared were great. I love to hear My teenager give his testimony, Shawn is sweet. I love to have Alyssa say "do you think that I can sneak up there before the Bishop closes the meeting?", I love Mogie DeMann's spiritual side. I loved all the testimonies and was glad that I could grow from them.

I went to young women's and Julie gave an AMAZING lesson on Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ's Gifts to us and what we can give back to them.

Then YW testimony meeting... the girls weren't shy yesterday and shared their testimonies and then Jenny Baldwin got up and made us all cry with hers.

We came home and cleaned up the living room a bit and decorated for Christmas. It was fun to hear the kids excitement. Steve and I fell asleep around 6:00pm cuddled up together on the couch with the Christmas Tree light on. I love this season.

We then made crepes and waffles for dinner.

We finished off the night sitting in the hot tub talking about the upcoming crazy week.

It was an almost perfect Sunday!

I am feeling...

a little overwhelmed.

That is it!

Not a whole lot more to post about... well actually a lot more to post about but I am spent!

Good Night... I miss you all!