Here we come a-waffling

On Monday it was a pretty normal day.  The kids didn't come so we just got to hang out and play.  We cleaned up around here and I worked on Bradley's stocking.  It started to snow in the evening.  Since BYU was out of school it was starting to seem like Christmas vacation.   At school in the morning Jared and Lauren got to go to the gym for the all school sing along.  I think they had a fun time with that.

The white shelves there are one of Connor's favorite places to unload....I mean play.  I thought it was pretty funny that he found himself a seat this day.

And then moved his seat to eat his apple....He has seen how the big kids eat at buckets (on boosters...not cracker boxes)

Tuesday Bradley walked up to me with a Santa hat on with a couple little things in his arms and asked "What do you want for Christmas?"  I said, "Happy kids"  He looked back at me shaking his head and said "I don't have any of those" in his cute little voice.  Brad had preschool too.  They got to decorate gingerbread men and other fun things.  In the evening we went to the BYU basketball game.

Jeff and Spencer came over and played in the snow for a little while with us.

Wednesday was finally their last day before break. They got to go to the sing along again (Tuesday too). Bradley, Connor, and I went to Lauren's class and helped with their class party.  It didn't seem very party like, but I don't think they knew any different...and they had already gotten to do so many other fun things during the month.  We basically just helped with their centers.  We played blackout with their sight words and when they got blackout they got a sucker (all the cards were the same too).  They also played don't eat Rudolph, had computer time, and got to make jingle bell necklaces.  We after Lauren's school we came by home for a couple of minutes to grab some snacks and then we went to ready to learn.  We had to leave early from there so we could  get Jared in time.  He got done at 12:30....earlier than normal early release.  We were officially on Christmas vacation.  In the evening Jeff and Elizabeth and Spencer came over and watched the kids while Alan and I could get some last shopping done.

Thursday was our first full day of break....and we loved it!!!!  We just did little things around here to help us get ready for Christmas.  Jeff and visited for  a little bit.  In the evening we watched out neighbor's kids and we watched the Poinsettia Bowl....kind of.  We had good food and fun.

Friday morning we went to a little playgroup...we don't usually go just because it doesn't work out with school times.  It was a little Christmas party and Santa was there.  They had a fun bead craft for the kids to make.  Then we hurried home and picked up Jeff and Spencer to take them to Elizabeth's work in Sandy.  They were all flying to Mississippi together.  After dropping them off and having a picnic in the car we headed the rest of the way up to Salt Lake.  We walked through Temple square again and in the North Visitor's center and saw the Nativity again.  Then we went over to the church history museum and played in the children's part of the museum for a while.   There was some special event going on there and I didn't realize it until we were leaving.  If I had know then we would have walked around a little more.  We did listen to some lady talk about what they might have gotten in their stockings.  She had stockings there and the kids got to pull the things out of the stockings one at a time and she would talk about it and why they would have gotten it and how they would have made it...little tops, candy, walnuts.  I always have to drag them out of there and that day was no different.

Eating in the car.

You can see Jeff in the back of the next car over.

Little cuties  in front of the Nativity

Fishing!

Yum Yum!

Shake it! Shake it! Shake it!

Saturday we were able to spend most of the day here just getting ready for Christmas.  Alan went up to Wendy's house to pick up a few things from there too. We did go swimming and we had a trip to Winco.  We also watched part of White Christmas.

Jared built this for a little doll.  He was calling it his baby's Pram.  I have no idea where he learned the word.  It is a pretty impressive Pram.  Its axles are free spinning and it rolls really well.

Sunday our ward was combined with all the wards that meet in our building...on our half  (so 4 wards).  And we got to meet at 9 which was nice.  Our ward was in charge of sacrament meeting.  The primary kids sang Picture a Christmas and did a great job.  Primary was pretty crazy, but they did a good job controlling it all.  Alan ended up teaching a class...almost his normal class and I helped in one of the nurseries.  It was a good day.