It's Beginning to look a lot like Christmas

Monday was a tough first day back from Thanksgiving break.  The little kids who usually come didn't...so that was nice.  I was able to get most stuff picked up...at least back to normal. It was a pretty normal day.


A scarf I finished recently

Tuesday Bradley had preschool. In the evening we were able to go to juggling club for a little while.  The weather was still super nice and we were able to play outside.   Alan took the car to get an alignment done, but they said the car didn't need it....it just eats through tires, so we had to get 2 new tires.

The last day we got to play in the leaves.

Wednesday was just a normal day.  We walked to pick up Lauren and again to get Jared.

Thursday Bradley and Connor and I went and helped in Lauren's  class.  It was their funny feet favorite food feast.  All the kids wore funny feet ...Bradley wore Jared's from last year.  Then they got to eat some of their favorite foods.  Bradley got to too...he thought it was great.

Brad loves puzzles!!!

Things get a little crazy here when Alan goes home teaching :)

Friday we got to go see Greg dance in Christmas around the world.  It was a super fun show. They did it in the round which was new and fun.

Saturday we had a slow morning,  but when we finally got going we headed out to Midway.  It was their Swiss Christmas celebration.  Part of the things they do is have a festival of nativities sort of thing.   This year it was at the Homestead.  There were a lot really nice nativities there.  There was also a ginger bread house display/ competition. It was held at an indoor rodeo arena.  There were several cool houses there.   On our way home we stopped at winco.  It wasn't too much longer until our ward Christmas party.  It was a nice dinner, Santa came at the start and there was a nice program.  The primary kids sang jingle bells, which didn't really fit with the rest of the program, but it was fine.  Lots of people left after the primary sang.  The rest of the program could have been done in sacrament meeting....hopefully we will still have a musical sacrament meeting.  We got to bring home a lot of leftovers that fed us dinner for half the week.

They had costumes to dress up in and get our picture taken

Connor didn't really like Santa...neither did Brad.  He wouldn't even get this close.  We did get a family picture we just still need to get a copy of it.

Sunday church was good.  Lauren had a talk that I forgot about until on the way to church. She did a good job bearing her testimony.  I played piano in primary. I think Alan's class went well.   In the morning Bishop Moore dropped our tree off...it had been stored at their house.  When we got home from church we had a message inviting us up to the house for their Christmas open house and to watch the First Presidency Christmas devotional.  It was fun to go up there and visit with them and see some of the old ward members. On our way home from there we drove be a fun house that has lots of light synced up to music.  It is a fun display, but everyone was pretty tired and getting late  so we didn't watch it for too long   It was a great week.