A Classic Shumway Christmas Dinner!

Christmas Dinner is always lots of work especially if you have to cook it all. It will be nice when we are with family so we can all share the hard work! :) Here is what a classic Shumway Christmas Dinner is:

Ham

Christmas Green Salad

Scalloped Potatoes

Ribbon Jello

This is our family and Susana a neighbor and ward member. We did the 12 days of Christmas to her and she came by to say thanks so we asked her to stay for dinner. The kids love her and she is great to be around.

Christmas!

On Christmas Eve we had the Woodard Family over for dinner and reading the Christmas story out of the scriptures. The kids loved dressing up and acting out their parts. It was fun to have a girl in the house to play Mary.

The boys got thermals, hats, and scarves for Christmas this year! They also toys and plenty of candy.

Here they are so excited to see what Santa brought them. Spencer and Zachary got basketballs, Rex got a horn for his bike, and Brandt got a ball and net game.

A Great Conversation with Zach

After school I usually sit down at the table and do homework with the kids. Right in the middle of writing his "j's" Zachary says very seriously "It is not nice to use the Lords name in Spain"! All I could do was smile but I really wanted to laugh out loud. But since he was so serious and I didn't want him to feel bad, all I could do was smile and say " You mean the Lords name in vain." Then he put his hands on his head and said "Oh..ja...I forgot...Lords name in VAIN!"

Oh what a cute kid!

A Message of Hope

On Sunday the Relief Society lesson was on Hope. I could not attend because I am in Primary and our very nice Relief Society president sent us this You Tube video that she used in her lesson. It is only two minutes and it is by Elder Utchdorf.