Heather and I went to the First Presidency Christmas Devotional at the Conference Center on Dec 4th. It's so much to fun to be there live instead of watching it on TV! For one of our FHE's we got to sing Christmas carols in the lobby of Primary Children's hospital and see the lights at Temple Square (well I get to see the lights everyday after work... ).
One of the highlights of December was our cousin, Megan visited us for a few days. It was fun to get to know her better and we hope it won't be too long before we see her again! With Megan in SLC, it gave us a chance to see more of Katelyn, Kim and Aunt Merrie! We had a pizza and baked sugar cookies one night, had lunch at Charlie Chow's another day and then a dinner and played games on another nig
ht! Heather and I took Megan to an ugly sweater party a girl in our ward hosted on the 10th. Luckily Aunt Merrie had sweaters we could use!On Dec 14, Heather and I had our Relief Society Christmas Party. Our RS Presidency went all out with wonderful decorations, dinner and program. Heather and I even participated in the program by performing a duet on the piano (Carol of the Bells).
On Dec 15, my office had our Christmas party aka Fat Day. The theme was the North Pole and my area was decorated as Mrs Claus' Kitchen and we were in charge of the sides for lunch. Basically we ate and talked all day so hardly any work got done besides answering phones! The first pic is me with the ladies I work with in my area with our awesome decorations on Fat Day. The second pic was taken in front of the tree in the Joseph Smith Memorial Building. We sent the picture to all the missions we work with!
A second highlight was when Dad and Whitney drove out to visit us! Dad stayed for a couple days and Whit stayed till Heather and I drove home for Christmas. While dad was here we showed them two awesome Christmas
light displays. One was in Taylorsville where a whole neighborhood did 'Twas the night before Christmas and one in Murray where this house had the lights set to music. On Saturday the 17th the 4 of us went Christmas shopping for Mom. We found the perfect ring at J.C. Penny! We also got her a cute coat! We had lunch with Aunt Merrie and her family at Red Robin. That night we went to the Mormon Tabernacle Christmas Concert! Jane Seymour was the narrator and Nathan Gunn was the singer... we really, really enjoyed it and so glad we got tickets this year! We also walked around temple square with the hundreds of other people after the Concert
On Dec 20th my sisters and I went to see the Nutcracker performed by Ballet West at the Capitol Theater. It was soooo good! I loved seeing Whitney's excitement. She said it was the best performance of Nutcracker she has ever seen. I'm so glad Whitney was able to spend a week with me and Heather in Salt Lake!
The 3 of us drove home to La Jara Colorado on the 23rd and we had a wonderful Christmas with our family, but more on that later!
