Events of Christmas Eve

 We had the perfect baby this year to play baby Jesus while Dustin read from Luke. Andrew played an Inn keeper, a shepard and a wise man. Jackson played Joseph, a shepard and a wise man.and McCall was Mary.I woke Zaylie up from a nap and she just sat in the basket the whole time very calm.

Dad took the kids outside to sprinkle oats and glitter so that the raindeer could find our house. The deer smell the oats and the glitter sparkles in the moonlight.

The kids helped get santa's plate ready after watching The Polar Express and before going to bed.

Taekwondo

Jackson earned a new belt and is doing very well in Taekwondo.

Mia is a great teacher. Very kind and patient. Jackson can't wait to go everyday.

Christmas fun

We got our second tree from our local farmers market for small price of $20. The best trees...so full and smell so good. We usually go cut one down but without mom and dad in McCall this year it didn't sound as fun.

This ginger bread house did not come from Costco this year. I was not going to buy one and Dustin insisted that we did. The kids loved eating then destroying it!

Our poor snowman is becoming quite droopy!

Pre Christmas dinner with friends

 The Kids table...

And our lovely table!

 We got together for our annual dinner with the Bledsoes and Garretts for a big Christmas dinner. We had it at our house Rebecca made her famous yams and this year she brought a delisious pea
can pie. We had a great time catching up.

Andrew's School Christmas Performance

Andrew's class and other 2nd grade classes put on a great program full of Christmas songs.

An art project Andrew was proud of and said it took a long time to complete.

We finally built a snowman. The first storm we never got around to it so I'm glad we had enough snow again to build this beauty! McCall out in the carrot, Andrew the nose and Jackson the mouth.

McCall's Christmas program

Every year, since Jackson was in preschool, The Howard's have come to our preschool for a Santa Clause appearance. Tammy Howard used to be our R.S. President and is now serving in the Stake Presidency. We see her often and love her very much. Thank you Howard's!

 The kids did a good job of enacting the nativity scene.

 I snuck Zaylie quickly on Santa's lap with McCall. McCall asked for something Hello Kitty. Which I had not got. So the pajamas I had got for her had cats on them and she asked if they were Hello Kitty so I told her yes.

School canceled

We had so much snow that next morning that they canceled school. This was Saturday but school was canceled on a Wedn. right after a long Thanksgiving break. We had already missed Monday of school because hwy 84 was closed on our way home. We ended up staying in a hotel for the night in Tremonton.