December flew in like a lion. While we were at church the first Sunday, the wind blew down probably half of our fence along the back. I don't want the kids to get loose, plus they have a big dog next door, so hopefully we can get it fixed soon. Who knows because the sharing neighbor is a hermit. At least the rest of the month was better. Some things we did are:
Decorate a gingerbread house,
Make crafts at the library,
Take Aunt Lisa out for her birthday,
Look at Christmas trees,
And visit Santa Claus!
One of my favorite things we did was get a babysitter and go on a double date with Scott's parents to the Mormon Tabernacle Christmas Concert. The special guests were Alfie Boe, an English opera singer, and Tom Brokaw, a news anchor and author. The theme of the show was World War 2 and they had dancers dressed up like that era. Tom Brokaw told a story of how the German children always went up to our military men and asked for candy. One guy split a piece of gum with 8 kids. He decided it would be a worthy cause to start a candy charity for the German children. So with help from home, he organized many pounds of candy to be dropped from airplanes via handkerchiefs acting as parachutes holding the candy to these sweet children. The tabernacle then dropped several parachutes with candy onto the captive audience! Wow, I had no idea that building could do special effects. To top off the show, the 90 year old veteran who created the original candy charity, emerged from behind a silky curtain dropped from the ceiling. My in-laws scored some awesome tickets. We were on row 20 on the ground in the center. They were nice to share their tickets with us.
We drove through Thanksgiving Point Lights with Scott's brother Bryan's family and parents.
Grandparent visits were next on the list. Oops, I forgot to snap a photo of Grandma Hebdon.
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| Grandma Paxton |
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| G & G Bjarnson |
Makayla had Polar Express pajama party day at school.
My mom's extended family had a big Hebdon party where Mrs. Claus came to visit.
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| My parents with their cousins. |
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The Bjarnsons got together for Christmas Eve dinner by candelight and the nativity performance. When you have 2 little girls who want to be Mary, sometimes you just let them both be her.
Santa Claus came to town. We stayed home for a quiet relaxing day and let the kids play.
Outside was my kids favorite destination.
Merry Christmas to all and cheers for a great year ahead!
2 comments:
Merry Christmas to you! What a good month (all except the fence - good luck on that!).
Lol on the two Marys for the nativity. WOW you guys scored bigtime with Santa this year!
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