Here is some holiday fun we've been having:
Susie and I went on a big girls date with Chante to see the Forgotten Carols. I loved it. Yes, it gets a little sappy at the end but I don't mind a little sappy sometimes. Susie got a little bored but we had a fun night out. The songs in this play are my favorite! We got backpretty late and she was out before we even got home!
I got to have a fun date with my sister too! She was coming up here to pick up a Christmas present she ordered for Ty and Paul had the day off. So we went shopping and got lunch at the Blue Lemon and it was so much fun! She's pretty fun to hang out with. I'm lucky to have two best friends for sisters. This is Tiffany telling me not to take her picture :)
Daddy bought us an early Christmas present (because he found a code for half off) to the new SeaQuest aquarium in Layton. We went and checked it out. We thought it was pretty fun! Susie was even brave enough to touch a snake!
My favorite holiday festivity so far was our date to temple square. I wanted to go on a romantic Christmas date. I made Paul dress up and we went to the Gardens for dinner, on the top of the Jospeh Smith Memorial building. The view was breathtaking, very romantic. Then we went to a little Christmas concert in the Assembly Hall. The singers were amazing! They even sang, "Still, Still, Still" which is my favorite Christmas song and you don't hear it much. We walked around temple Square and City Creek, bought a book at Dessert Book and some hot chocolate at Godiva. It was a magical night. Sam babysat for us and it was the best Christmas gift ever!
I was in charge of our wards Christmas party. I decided to go with the theme, "Nephite Christmas Story." My mom used to read about this story when we were kids and we often did a little play on Christmas Eve around this story too. So I just kind of replicated it, on a larger scale! We used black butcher paper with taped white lights on the black to create a Zarahelma village silhouette and it turned out really pretty. We had a kids corner of activities children could do during the party. I narrated the little program we did, too.
We had some friends in our neighborhood come over for holiday fun. We colored wooden ornaments and frosted cookies. We are so grateful to have good friends in our ward and neighborhood. They are a great blessing to us.
We built a little fort today because it's too cold to do anything else! We've been making treats all month. It's really fun to do things with my kids that I got to do growing up. Now school is out for Christmas break and we are so excited! We have family coming to town to spend Christmas with us and it is going to be so fun!
