Monday, Ben gave us a wonderful FHE about three prophets he learned about in Nursery the day before. He was so cute and decided to make it a "puppet show."
Wednesday, Dan decided to only work half a day and we went to the Festival of Trees on opening day. We had lunch at Schlotzky's beforehand where Anna started doing a "mean face/happy face" game (with chocolate chip cookies on her cheeks, of course).
We pretty much decided we may never go in the evening ever again. It was much less crowded and we could even park in the Expo Center parking lot. :)
I took only a few pictures of the trees but we had fun counting how many Frozen themed trees there were. I counted at least 13 and we only looked at the big trees and ginger bread houses.
Thursday evening, Dan and I attended a Christmas open house for members of our Stake who hold Stake callings. It was lovely food and wonderful company. Afterwards, since we had a babysitter, we went on our first Christmas shopping trip and bought more than half of all the kids' gifts. Success!
Friday, Dan's boss had asked (way back in October) to sing at their work All Staff meeting. She has way more confidence in my abilities than I do, but there were no rotten tomatoes thrown, so I guess I did alright. I sang White Christmas and Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.
I also wanted to document a couple milestones. Anna started feeding herself (quite well) with a spoon.
Ben can write his own name!
Friday night we went to eat with Dan's mom and dad, and sister's family, then to see the lights on Temple Square!
Anna was loving walking around like a big girl! Towards the end when we were just about done, we decided to go touch the temple. Sadly, she tripped and fell receiving quite the fat lip. Poor thing.
Are you surprised we went to Ugurt afterwards? :)
Saturday, we went to the Condie Christmas Party and the kids got to sit on Santa's lap (or stand next to him).
Anna didn't even seem that scared.
The kids both got new socks (Ninja Turtles and Anna and Elsa)
There's a raffle at this party from which we rarely win anything. But this year we actually got something! Some cute stocking hooks!
My Condie Grandparents.
3 comments:
The festival of trees is so fun! And good for you for singing!
Such a busy week. And I am jealous of your stocking holders. I have been looking for some, and haven't been happy yet.
Christmas tiiiiiime is heeeeeeere!
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