Christmas Time 2007

12/05/07 BYU Christmas Party: We went up to a huge mansion up the Springville Canyon that BYU owns for Jared's work Christmas party. They house is really cool. There's a tree house in the middle of it. Up in the tree house is a game area with a couple pool tables etc. There's also an indoor gym! They had several food stations set up, complete with a chocolate fountain! (Nicole--you'd be disappointed. It apparently wasn't completely level, and the chocolate was running a little crooked.) I ate so much food! They had a variety of center pieces that we could chose from to order. It was fun.

12/14/07 We went to Rocky Mountain Composites' Christmas party. They also had really yummy food. (Prime rib...mmm.) They hired a hypnotist for the entertainment. Whether they were all hypnotized or not doesn't really matter...seeing the quiet guy from Quality stand on his chair and yell like Tarzan is funny stuff.



12/16/07 So I played my flute in church during our ward's Christmas presentation. I haven't been in band for almost 9 years! Now I remember why I don't usually volunteer for that kinda thing; boy do I get nervous! I think it went pretty well though. My shaking just sounded like vibrato. At least that's what I've been telling myself!

12/22/07 We went to Lindsay (my niece) and Michael's apartment to watch the BYU bowl and make gingerbread houses. We used one of those kits but we added stuff. It was so fun! After you assemble your house, the instructions say to let it sit for 15 minutes before you decorate it. They aren't kidding. After a few minutes we started putting almond slice shingles on the roof and it kept sliding off! I ended up super gluing it when we got home = ) Lindsay said her snow man looked more like a snow frog = )

12/24/07 We were on our way to a Christmas Eve party at my brother's house in Ogden when it started to snow like crazy! We were going to go there and then stay the night at my sister's in Bountiful, but we ended up going straight to JaNel's. I felt really bad about missing the party = ( We just chilled there while they were at the party. I did my nails while Jared shoveled their driveway = ) When they got back we watched The Grinch and played some games. VeNicia and my Dad came too. We were up until about 2:00. It was a lot of fun.


12/25/07 Merry Christmas!

We got up about 8:00. They kids had a scavenger hunt to find some of their presents. It was really cute. We exchanged gifts. I made scarfs for VeNicia and JaNel. They looked really cute on them! We got lots of nice gifts.

The coolest gift of all was one that all of my brothers and sisters went in on for my Dad. We got him a digital picture frame! It has sections for pictures of each of the kids and their families, a section of misc family shots, and a big section of pictures of my Mom. He really seemed to like it. We cried as he the pictures of my Mom came on. We all miss her so much. It's our first Christmas with out her.

I trimmed VeNicia's hair. No, I've never been to beauty school. I'm not sure why she lets me, but it's kinda fun! Then we went to my brother Barry's house in Sandy. It was like Thanksgiving all over again. The food was outstanding! I better get my butt back to the gym. I've been slacking ever since a got sick a couple weeks ago. I love spending so much time with family!