December Festivities
As a practice run for my blog this coming year, I figured I'd share a few of the things we did so far this month.
My kids are paying attention to some history stories at least. :) Here they created their own "Sword in the Stone" out of Duplos and a foam sword.
Decorating the Christmas Tree. Notice how all the ornaments are on the bottom half of the tree.
We had a fun Christmas piano recital. Our oldest 5 kids all take piano lessons from Grandma, and this recital was all duets. J2 played with Dave, J1 played with K, C and D each played a song with me, and K played a song with Dave. K & D each also played a song with a fellow student. At the end of the recital D & C received awards for moving to the next level in Grandma's curriculum.
On our way home from the piano recital we noticed our big van was about to pass a fun milestone. So we took a couple detours to make sure we caught it on camera. We happened to find a fun park with some "drive through" Christmas lights. Then we pulled over to the side of the road to safely take this picture.
We enjoy taking the kids to see the lights at Temple Square, but we know from experience (and the fact that Dave works ON Temple Square) that Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday evenings are less crowded, and the earlier in the evening and earlier in December, the better.
We chose to go on a Wednesday evening, early in December. We started in the Joseph Smith Memorial Building (or Daddy's office) and ate dinner in the Nauvoo Cafe because I was way too late with everything that day to pack sandwiches for us.
Danielle REALLY wanted to take pictures, so I handed over my phone. This resulted in LOTS of blurry pictures. :)
But she got some good ones too.
We went to the North Visitor's Center to listen to the nativity story and watch the scene being lit up.
It was a wonderfully warm night for December. We almost took our coats off. Much different from when we went 6 years ago with 3 month old twins. :)
The funniest part of this trip turned out to be the next weekend when we learned that my sister, Lindsay, and her family visited Temple Square the same night we did, and we had no idea.
Morning scripture time. B loves to hold his own scriptures. This particular morning he said, "Oh no, it's upside-down." And then turned the book to the position shown in the picture. Silly boy.
I learned how to make meatballs this month.
I ended up making a ton of them for a freezer meal swap I did with some friends.
And then the snow started.
And kept coming.
I needed to call in backup for this one.
This was the morning of the second day of the storm. We actually had this much the night before, and got another 2 1/2 inches that night, but it compacted a bit on the deck where we were measuring.
I had to go buy a second snow shovel and Dave and I did half the driveway. Thankfully at that point our neighbor came over with his snowblower for a few minutes before he had to leave and got a good start on the second half of the driveway. Then another neighbor came over and helped us finish shoveling the rest. Our poor mailbox ended up nearly buried in the snow banks. Our Christmas lights got buried too and glowed softly through the snow. Unfortunately a few days later they shorted out and we haven't been able to get them to turn on since. Sad.
The kids had fun with the snow, At least until they realized how cold and wet it was. We ended up getting 30 inches in a span of 9 days. Yuck.
We did a lot of other fun things in December that we didn't happen to get any pictures of. The best was probably when Dave and I went with K to see Star Wars: The Force Awakens with Dave's parents on opening day. K LOVED it. (Dave and I enjoyed it too, but K was SUPER EXCITED.)
My kids are paying attention to some history stories at least. :) Here they created their own "Sword in the Stone" out of Duplos and a foam sword.
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| 2 December 2015 |
Decorating the Christmas Tree. Notice how all the ornaments are on the bottom half of the tree.
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| 5 December 2015 |
We had a fun Christmas piano recital. Our oldest 5 kids all take piano lessons from Grandma, and this recital was all duets. J2 played with Dave, J1 played with K, C and D each played a song with me, and K played a song with Dave. K & D each also played a song with a fellow student. At the end of the recital D & C received awards for moving to the next level in Grandma's curriculum.
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| 8 December 2015 |
On our way home from the piano recital we noticed our big van was about to pass a fun milestone. So we took a couple detours to make sure we caught it on camera. We happened to find a fun park with some "drive through" Christmas lights. Then we pulled over to the side of the road to safely take this picture.
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| 8 December 2015 |
We enjoy taking the kids to see the lights at Temple Square, but we know from experience (and the fact that Dave works ON Temple Square) that Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday evenings are less crowded, and the earlier in the evening and earlier in December, the better.
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| 9 December 2015 |
We chose to go on a Wednesday evening, early in December. We started in the Joseph Smith Memorial Building (or Daddy's office) and ate dinner in the Nauvoo Cafe because I was way too late with everything that day to pack sandwiches for us.
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| 9 December 2015 |
Danielle REALLY wanted to take pictures, so I handed over my phone. This resulted in LOTS of blurry pictures. :)
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| 9 December 2015 |
But she got some good ones too.
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| 9 December 2015 |
We went to the North Visitor's Center to listen to the nativity story and watch the scene being lit up.
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| 9 December 2015 |
It was a wonderfully warm night for December. We almost took our coats off. Much different from when we went 6 years ago with 3 month old twins. :)
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| 9 December 2015 |
The funniest part of this trip turned out to be the next weekend when we learned that my sister, Lindsay, and her family visited Temple Square the same night we did, and we had no idea.
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| 9 December 2015 |
Morning scripture time. B loves to hold his own scriptures. This particular morning he said, "Oh no, it's upside-down." And then turned the book to the position shown in the picture. Silly boy.
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| 10 December 2015 |
I learned how to make meatballs this month.
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| 13 December 2015 |
I ended up making a ton of them for a freezer meal swap I did with some friends.
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| 13 December 2015 |
And then the snow started.
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| 14 December 2015 |
And kept coming.
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| 14 December 2015 |
I needed to call in backup for this one.
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| 14 December 2015 |
This was the morning of the second day of the storm. We actually had this much the night before, and got another 2 1/2 inches that night, but it compacted a bit on the deck where we were measuring.
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| 15 December 2015 |
I had to go buy a second snow shovel and Dave and I did half the driveway. Thankfully at that point our neighbor came over with his snowblower for a few minutes before he had to leave and got a good start on the second half of the driveway. Then another neighbor came over and helped us finish shoveling the rest. Our poor mailbox ended up nearly buried in the snow banks. Our Christmas lights got buried too and glowed softly through the snow. Unfortunately a few days later they shorted out and we haven't been able to get them to turn on since. Sad.
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| 14 December 2015 |
The kids had fun with the snow, At least until they realized how cold and wet it was. We ended up getting 30 inches in a span of 9 days. Yuck.
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| 15 December 2015 |
We did a lot of other fun things in December that we didn't happen to get any pictures of. The best was probably when Dave and I went with K to see Star Wars: The Force Awakens with Dave's parents on opening day. K LOVED it. (Dave and I enjoyed it too, but K was SUPER EXCITED.)
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