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Christmas Celebration

The kids had two full weeks off from school, which gave them a lot of free time. They hopped back and forth between our house and their mom's to try to hit all of the Christmas traditions. Here they are one morning shoveling the driveway. One night we took everyone who could go to The Last Jedi, which we all enjoyed. Kory has trained Chloe and Morgan to be The Price is Right fans, so they like to hang out and watch it together. Kory's sister, Lori, made it onto the show and it will air on March 26. I told her that was Kory's dream. ;) We had Ryker some of the time and Caleb is definitely the best babysitter. He plays with him for hours. Chloe: is she naughty or is she nice? Depends on the day. He he. On Christmas Eve day, we went to church. Kory and I sang in the choir and Kory spoke in sacrament meeting. It was a nice service. After church, we invited all of the kids over for Sunday dinner. Austin and Leah and Lakyn and Morgan joined us. Next,

Vacation

This is what scripture study looks like at our house.  On the 14th after work, Kory and I headed down to Utah. We stopped for dinner at In n Out and then checked into our hotel and headed over to Temple Square to wait in line for standby tickets for the Mormon Tabernacle Christmas Concert. We waited for a couple of hours, most of which was warm in the tabernacle. Luckily, we got in. We were up in the nosebleeds, but it was great. The guest performers were Sutton Foster and Hugh Bonneville. It was awesome. After the concert, we wandered around temple square to look at the lights and then grabbed some hot chocolate and went back to our hotel. Kory had a CES meeting all day Friday, so I met up with some friends. Brenda and I had breakfast at a cafe in the Grand America hotel. It was awesome. Later, Wendy and Annie and I met for lunch (although I was stuffed) at the Blue Lemon. Then we went to Temple Square and listened to Madison's Bel Cantos choir sing in th

Christmas Festivities

It's that time of year when there is a whole heck of a lot of things going on. On December 1 we went to a Seminary Inservice and then they treated everyone to dinner at Johnny Carino's. I was excited that my friend and neighbor growing up has started working as one of the support specialists at Skyline, so we got to hang out and chat.  Random picture of Chloe plugging her nose with a Chip Clip. On December 4 we did our annual WalMart shopping trip where all of the kids get gifts for each other. We ran into one of our neighbors as we were invading WalMart and I said, "Well, someone always ends up in tears, so watch carefully...." So, of course, there were a couple of unhappy kids by the end and we were heading out of the store. I thought my neighbor was still there--she was bending over fixing her boot. So I walked up to her and said, "Well, we didn't leave until everyone was mad." And she turned around and it WASN'T my neighbor. Of course,