Merry Christmas everyone! What a wonderful holiday! I can’t believe that it’s already been a year! We had a wonderful day today spending time as a family and enjoying relaxing! The kids got up very early and were very excited to see if Santa came! We finally let them go downstairs at about 7am and […]
Christmas Eve! It’s hard to believe that another year has flown by! We worked hard today to clean the house and get ready for our annual Christmas Eve party. It was sleeting most of the day and the trees were all covered with ice! What a crazy bunch of weather! This afternoon we went over
Today Grandma and Grandpa Halliday arrived to spend Christmas with our family! They took the Amtrak train out from Salt Lake City (34 hour ride)! 😐 We picked them up from the train station and went back to our house for a nice, relaxing evening. We weren’t sure if Benjamin would take to them very
For Activity Days at Church today, Kirstyn and her group of friends made gingerbread houses! They had a LOT of fun and enjoyed decorating the houses with their personal styles. Last year the houses fell apart early due to the frosting not “sticking” the walls together, so this year, they used hot glue guns! 🙂
Today was a very busy day! This morning, Brittany had to perform with the Still Middle School Chamber Orchestra at the Waubonsie High School Santa Breakfast. Angela took Kirstyn and Zach and attended this and had a ball. Brittany did a great job, and Kirstyn and Zach loved playing games, sitting on Santa’s lap, and
Tonight Kirstyn had her holiday chorus concert at Gombert Elementary. She was very excited and loves to sing! The Still Middle School Honors Chorus was invited to come and sing with them, so Brittany got dressed up and went. It was a fun concert and we were able to take Zachary and Ben. Zach was
Today was COLD! It started out cold and ended the same way. Winter is here to stay, we think! During most of the day, the temperature hovered around -1 degree (-18 Celcius) and with the humidity and the wind, it felt like -22 degrees (-30 Celcius)! 🙁 All of the after-school activities were canceled, and
Today was the first big snow of the season! Was in the 20s most of the day and snowed all day. Angela shoveled the driveway 3 times while I was at work! Kirstyn, Zach, and Ben went outside and played in the snow. They worked on getting a snowman made and got about half-way done
Today was quite the interesting day! Brittany had a concert tonight featuring all the honors music groups. She sang with the Honors Chorus and played her violin with the Chamber Orchestra. She is doing quite well! She just got a brand new violin ($1400 ouch!) but it sounds soooo much better than her old rented
Today was a fun day for all of us! This morning, Brittany went out on a date with Mom and met Tracy and Carrie Raketic at Ikea for breakfast. They wandered around afterward and looked at all the fun stuff to buy! 🙂 This afternoon, Angela and I met 3 other couples (Collingwood, Smith, and
Tonight Kirstyn had her very first band concert! It was held over at Waubonsie Valley High School in the auditorium and her school was combined with 4 other elementary schools in the district. It was great to hear them play for the first time together. They showed examples of what was good and what was
In a nail-biter final game of the year, BYU beat Utah in overtime 26-23! It was such a sweet win! They ended the season 10-2! Max Hall redeemed himself from a year ago, when Utah intercepted him five times in a 48-24 blowout in Salt Lake City. Max made some pretty seering remarks about Utah’s
