Merry Christmas Grammy and Pop-Pop

Hope you two had a Merry Christmas in Columbia. WE MISSED YOU!

Emily and Bryant

Julia

Haley

Christmas Newsletter

For anyone I missed!

Gingerbread Carousel

This Christmas I wanted to start a tradition baking a ginger bread house with the kids. Ours didn't quite turn out (good thing I wasn't an architect) the roof was way to heavy for the house and after half the shingles were on it caved in. Luckily I live with a Culinary Arts Graduate, (Emily) who decided to help us build another one. But instead of a house we built a carousel with reindeer. It was fun, it helped get us into the holiday spirit. We really enjoyed it. I let her know I expect her over every year now to help us build one, because she did such a great job.

ROOF

TOO CUTE

Our last trip to the zoo for the year!

Every year for Christmas my dad buys me a year family pass +2 to the zoo. So this is the last trip of the year. We had a lot of fun! Paul had the day off work and got to come with us. The Jaguar was moving around alot so we got really good pictures of him. The kids love going to the zoo, and this trip it was nice and cool outside not to hot and not cold yet.

Decorating the tree for FHE

We put up our christmas tree 2 mondays ago for FHE. The kids loved it. Haley likes to sit in front of it and watch the lights flash. She blows at them like they're little candels. After we put up the tree, we had some yummy brownies and sang christmas songs. Paul tried to play the Piano. Grammy has a childrens song book that has numbers for the keys and Paul remembered how to count the keys...Grammy was much better! He played way to slow for us to sing along.
CAN YOU NAME THAT TUNE?

Ward Christmas Party

This year for the ward party each organization put on a skit and the audience had to guess what they were doing. Kinda like a Who's Line Is It Anyway. It was cute and way fun. The bishopric was acting out Christmas caroling to a deaf person, I think the Primary presidency's was one of the FUNNIEST and kept the kids attention. They helped Rudolf get her light to work on her nose, because she was sick. The Young Men and Elders Quorum together was fixing santa's sleigh, the young women was christmas cooking with the food network, the High Priest was keeping frosty from melting, and the relief society was christmas shoping with a bad GPS system. They were all too funny.