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, the kids and Kory thought that was so funny that everyone was back in a good mood.

On December 5 Kory and I performed with the Idaho Falls Institute Choir at the Visitor's Center. Kory led and I play the piano. There were like 243 people there because it was a mutual night and lots of people brought all of their wards there. The acoustics were a little weird, but it went fine.

On Thursday December 7 we performed the same program again for the other Institute Students and this performance went better all around. It was fun to get to know these kids and we'll be working with the choir again next semester as well.

For our Ward Party on December 9 we had a breakfast and assembled about 100 hygiene kits for the Humanitarian Center. I was in charge of overseeing that project, so Kory and our granddaughter Morgan helped get everything set up for a little assembly line and then ward members would go through and fill a bag as many times as they wanted.

That evening Kory and I went to a Christmas party with some of the local seminary teachers. It was a hoot. For our White Elephant gift we took this mannequin torso and it became a hot item that several people were fighting over. I was just glad we didn't have to take it home with us.

Tonight at my mom's we enjoyed some Christmas caroling with the Anderson's and my mom's awesome treats and Christmas decorations.

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