February already....

 We've had a fun, busy week full of all the normal stuff.  School (except Friday - heaven forbid we have a full week of school....) playing at the playground after school.  Hanging out with friends.  Swimming and water polo.  Family time and friends.  

We had some friends over to join us for scripture study and dessert on Monday for FHE.  Dan and Eileen made a peach cheesecake (consensus was that it was really yummy - but would be better with fresh peaches)  

Monday during the day, I went over to meet with Don Anderson - the director for Peter The Rock - to discuss music and get a bit of his vision for the work, and of course, chat about music and listen to music.  It was a fun morning, and I'm getting really excited about this show and getting to help with it!  

Tuesday I signed up to volunteer as a chaperone for David's field trip.  The Kindergarteners went to see "Dragons Love Tacos" in Portland.  The kids had a lot of fun and it was a cute little show based off a cute children's book.  I had fun hanging out with David and some of his friends.  Then we had tacos for dinner for David.  :) 

Wednesday my friend Melonie came over to craft and chat and have lunch together.  It's always nice visiting with her and sharing projects. 

I had water polo on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings.  Anna had a swim meet on Thursday afternoon and did a great job.  She's a bit frustrated with her coach though - she's been mostly swimming JV, and while she's not as fast as most of the varsity swimmers - she's much faster than most of the JV swimmers, so she's a bit frustrated with where she's being placed.  

The kids had Friday off school (except the college kids) and David had a doctors appointment to get his vaccines updated.  Then in the afternoon, David and Evie went to a Valentine's themed music camp with Sister Shum

Saturday, Anna and I had Peter the Rock in the morning, then right after, we headed to Parkrose to play water polo, then home for the afternoon.  Aaron and James went swimming with Caleb and his family on Friday and Saturday.  

Saturday night, I took Anna, Aaron, Evelyn, Evelyn's friend Natalie and Caleb to Open Polo.   I think they all had a fun time, but Caleb was tired and complained of sore muscles the next day!  It was a fun evening though!  

Sunday was wonderful.  I was playing the organ and it went well, primary went well and choir went well!  We had a fun evening with the Sister Missionaries coming over for dinner.  Dan and the youth age kids had a fireside in the evening, then after, we had fun playing games together.  

Music and Water Polo

We had a busy week.  Evelyn got the part of Scuttle in her school play so she has play rehearsals after school a couple days a week.  She also had her band concert on Thursday evening. It amazing to hear these kids and how good they are - especially when you consider that most of them learned their instruments during COVID with most of their instruction being virtual, and then last year the teacher situation was a bit crazy, so the have overcome so much and learned so much and they did amazing!  

Anna had two swim meets this week - one on Thursday during which I helped out with timing and one on Saturday evening.  She did well and it's crazy to think that the swim season only has a couple more weeks left in it.  

Eileen had a friend over on Friday night to cook and play games with.  She was teaching him how she makes rolls and mac and cheese.  They had a fun time together.  Eileen was so fun to watch - confident and teaching something she enjoys.  

Saturday I had "Peter The Rock" rehearsals in the morning - but Anna didn't since the instrumentalists weren't practicing that day.  We were preparing to sing for an audition so we worked on the 2 pieces for that.  Don - the music director - asked me to be the assistant director, specifically working with the women and to act as a back up for him in case of emergencies.  I'm pretty excited and looking forward to helping fill Don and Brad's vision for this show!  The music really is beautiful and it's a great group of people!  

Saturday night, I took Aaron and Evelyn and 2 of her friends to open polo.  We all had a great time!   I always enjoy playing and the girls especially had fun playing and chatting together!  

At masters polo earlier in the week - goalie Dan has been helping me and working with me to get better - and it's been awesome.  He's an amazing goalie and it's great having someone pushing me and helping me remember and do and practice.  

There has been mostly good weather after school this week so the boys have been able to play with friends after school and I enjoy getting to know the parents and just being outside!  

Fun with Friends!

 The weather here has been all over the place this week.  We've had rain, snow, sleet, hail, and sunshine - all within the space of a couple hours....  fortunately most of the afternoons had clear enough weather for the boys to stay after school and play with their friends.  James spent the whole week super excited about his birthday party on Friday.  He was counting down to it.   We made pizza and got a bunch of junk food and let the kids have fun.  The plan was to watch a movie, but they only got 20 minutes into the movie before they were unable to sit quietly any longer and began running around playing again.  James was in 7th heaven and everyone else just avoided them.  One of his friends was super sweet and polite - saying "thanks" for everything and cleaning up after himself.  I think the craziness of the other kids got to be a little much for him because after a bit, he came down and started cleaning the kitchen and playing games with David.  

James had Activity Days this week and he had a blast playing gaga ball and running around - as did David.  

Anna had a group date on Friday going bowling.  Evie had Acro and Aaron also contrived to escape from James' party.  I had water polo, the kids had school and it was a mostly normal week.  

Dan and all the kids had Monday off for the national holiday.  But we mostly just took it easy - I still had the work out in the morning, and David wanted to come too.  We still had to do laundry and grocery shopping, so it was a mostly normal day for me - just with the kids and Dan around to help out and hang out with.  

Dan and I went to the temple on Saturday night and ran into some friends from the ward there, so invited them to go out to dinner with us after.  We had a great time doing sealings and a great time chatting and eating yummy food with friends!  

Church today was wonderful - after we had choir and dinner and then I had a stake relief society fireside.  Then I got trounced in a game again.  :(  

Now we are getting ready for James' birthday tomorrow.  He's very excited to be turning 11!  

Happy 15th Aaron!!

This week was a mostly normal week.  The kids had school and activities, Dan had work, and I had water polo.  Weather wasn't too bad, at least good enough that the boys could spend some of the days playing at the play ground after school with their friends.  Evelyn was having fun Monday after school teaching David some math.  He loved it and was so excited to learn!  She was so patient an such a good teacher!

Eileen found a recipe for shrimp potstickers and spent a couple days making messes in the kitchen and experimenting with the recipe and seeing what she liked best.  Then she spent at least half the time they were making them trying to keep Anna from eating all of them.  Eileen liked some of her trials more than others - Anna just wanted to eat all of them...  

On Tuesday, Aaron turned 15.  This kid is amazing - he is one of the most chill kids ever.  He's gotten really into anime recently and has been experimenting with streaming his gaming.  He picked "whatever" for his birthday dinner - so we made beef stew.  And his cake choice was just as specific, so Dan made him a devil's food cake.  

Evelyn found a guinea pig crochet pattern and decided that she wanted to make a mini version of the guinea pigs.  This was her first one - and it game out really cute!  She is totally smitten with it and with her little guinea pigs.  

The kids had Friday off.  I still went to my workout in the morning.  Eileen still had classes and Anna took the other teens to the temple in the morning.  In the evening, I went to accompany one of the young women in the ward on an audition recording.  She is a wonderful kid and super talented and I had a lot of fun learning the piece to play with her.  

Saturday was a usual busy - Peter The Rock practice in the morning, water polo in the afternoon.  The usual Saturday library trip and dinner and family time, finally, I took Aaron to Open polo in the evening, and we convinced Evelyn to come with us next time we go.  :)  There was a nice girl there who was an 8th grader and didn't really know what she was doing, and Anna spent some time working with her and helping her out and teaching her!  It was cute to watch! 

Church today was wonderful!  The primary kids were a bit crazy - hopefully soon they will get adjusted to the new year changes and things will calm down a bit!  James and David got to go over to Lydia's house after church - which is their favorite thing ever - then we made the switch at ward choir.  We had the sister missionaries over for dinner and a lesson.  Then we spent the evening playing games together!  

Back to Crazy

The kids had Monday off - and so did Dan, but we mostly took it easy - grocery shopping and laundry and such.  It was nice to have an easy day and do some napping after the holiday weekend.  We had a pizza night for dinner and watched a very silly movie about soccer players and Weird Al and mutant monsters....  But we had fun! 

Tuesday it was back to school.  There was lots of rainy weather this week - but still some nice afternoons for playing after school.  We stayed a bit too long on one day and I'd forgotten umbrellas, so we got soaked on the way home and I finally caved and asked Dan to pick us up when it started pouring.  Of course with crazy Oregon weather, by the time he got to us, the rain had slowed back down to a drizzle again.  

On Wednesday James had his Activity Days activity.  It went really well and the kids all had a lot of fun!  David loves it when I stay and help because he can then stay and play too and he loves getting to go to the activities!  Wednesday was also youth activities and Evelyn had Honor Band rehearsal.  Plus for the rest of the high school swim season, Masters is on Tuesday/Wednesday, so I had masters that night too.  

Thursday is not open for Masters right now because it's being used for high school swim meets.  So I had a fun time watching Anna swim in her meet and had fun chatting with parents and recruiting for water polo and talking with friends and others there.  Anna swam well - she was pushed to the Varsity 100 Breast Stroke when her other event was cancelled, and got the top Mountainside time.  Then she had to turn around and swim the JV 50 breast right after.  

David is so funny - he LOVES the watch we got him for Christmas.  It was a fairly cheap one, but he loves to wear it and tell the time from it.  He's gotten better at recognizing his higher numbers because of it and he loves to keep track of the time and when things are supposed to happen.  He also wants to make sure the battery gets charged like mommy and Anna's watches.  So he either clips it into Anna's watch charger or puts it on top of my watch charger like below.  He told me earlier today that some times he watch needs to charge for a whole day so that he can keep wearing it after.  He's so funny!  

Evelyn had Honor Band rehearsals all day on Friday, and Anna had a friends birthday party to attend.  Note that the "Ate All The Cake" sign is probably accurate....  :)   

This weekend was rather nuts.  Evelyn had Honor band practice in the morning, then her concert at 3.  She did an amazing job and she had a great time!  

I participated in my first tournament in over 20 years.  I signed up to play on a masters team at the THPRD new years tournament.  We were kinda the B-string team, so we didn't win any games, but I had a blast and had a couple good blocks including a 5-meter shot block and blocking a 1-on nobody shot from a friend on another team.  It was two days with 4 games and tons of fun!  Somehow it all managed to fit.  I was able to play the games and still be at Evelyn's concert, church, and choir practice. Dan took a bit of video from one of my games and this is a still from one of them.   

Church today was wonderful.  The testimonies borne were so sweet!  Primary was a bit crazy, but we survived and the kids learned and had fun.  

We had some friends over in the evening to play games and now after a very long week, I'm very ready for bed....  :) 

Family in Town

We were so glad when Grandma and Grandpa Cox made it in to town safely.  So many other people had been having problems getting where they were going that we were very grateful that their trip went off with out a hitch.  They got in late Sunday and went to Sandi's house for the first couple days.  We met down at Sandi's house for Christmas with Grandma and Grandpa and brunch. (lunch)  I still went to work out in the morning and the delivery with Dan's smoker happened just in time for me to get home, shower and then we were all ready to head down to Sandi's.  The kids had fun opening and exchanging presents with family.  My parents found it amusing since both Sandi and I had gotten some power tools for Christmas, while the guys hadn't gotten any.  

Tuesday morning, we met up at Defy to have fun with the passes from Grandpa.  The kids mostly had a blast!  Anna's knees were bothering her after a bit so she sat down and it wasn't too long before Eileen was tired of the crowds.  All of my kids were sweaty and tired by the time our hour and a half was up.  We had a fun morning together though!  

In the afternoon, we made up Bagna Caulda again to have with the family.  We had lots of fun and lots of food and sang songs together and had fun.  Dan took Evelyn to go watch her friends in the Nutcracker and had a great time together.  Then in the evening, I got to go play water polo!  

Wednesday after working out, we met up with everyone for lunch at Sushi Hana.  My kids all LOVE sushi, and Eileen has convinced my mom, but my Dad and Taz and Kai weren't huge fans - all my dad wanted to eat was rice and all Taz and Kai wanted to eat was fruit. :)  After, the boys went back to Sandi's house and the girls went for pedicures!

James slept over with Taz for a couple nights and Kai slept over here Wednesday night after she went with Evie to an Ice Skating thing her friend had organized.  

Thursday afternoon, we had our Murder Mystery Dinner.  Sandi organized it and planned the menu and stuff.  The older kids and the adults had roles to act out and the younger kids got to act as waiters and servers and we all had a blast.  Those with roles got to dress up and we had fun being silly!  

In the evening, Eileen had a babysitting job and I had water polo.  My dad has been having fun taking the kids on walks to get his steps in.  They all love going for walks with him - even David who complains about walking to school....  lol 

Grandma and Grandpa headed home on Friday.  It was so great to have them come out to visit!  

Saturday was New Year's Eve.  There were lots of plans for New Year's Eve.  Eileen was babysitting again and was not really sorry to miss the noisy party.  We started out the evening at a party at a friends house.  The kids got to hang out with their friends and have a great time.  Then around 9, Dan and I took David and James home.  Evelyn stayed to hang out with her friends and Anna took Aaron and some friends to the youth dance.  David headed to bed when we got home and James immediately got on Roblox and started watching Naruto.  I pulled out my puzzle and got started.  The evening was quiet but nice.  We almost missed midnight!  Then Dan headed to bed while I waited up to make sure all the kids got home safely.  Eileen was the last one home at nearly 2am.  Then just as I was getting ready to climb in to bed, Evelyn threw up.  Something hadn't agreed with her stomach and it came up.  Once she got it all out, she was feeling much better, but there was still a bunch of clean up to do before we could get to bed!  

That made even our later church start time feel early, but we were so glad we went!  The talks and lessons were great!  I was subbing on the organ and things went well and I had a nice chat after with a visitor who was saying nice things and asking questions.  Primary was a bit crazy (which was not really a surprise after last night!  After church, quite a few of us took naps, since we were all tired after last night, but David was bright and chipper and happy!  We had fun playing our new Wingspan expansion and hanging out together.  Now I'm looking forward to bed!  

Merry Christmas

 We started off the week with one last Christmas concert for Anna - that made 10 for her this month - not counting the ward choir stuff.  Encore performed at The Grotto and I got to go hear them in a beautiful venue!  She did amazing and it was wonderful to listen to them!  

Tuesday we held our Bagna Caulda night.  We had a good turn out and lots of food was consumed and lots of singing was done.  It was a wonderful night with wonderful people.  

I got gingerbread house kits for the kids to decorate.  They had fun - well the younger 4 kids had fun - the older ones just ignored it and did their own thing.  

Dan and I tried to make sure we had everything ready for this weekend by Thursday since there was bad weather predicted and we wanted to make sure that we would have everything we needed in case we couldn't get off the hill.  Sure enough, Thursday evening, the snow (?) set in.  It wasn't really snow - it was frozen rain - but it was enough like snow that the boys had a fun morning on Friday sledding down the hill next to our house.  Temperatures were below freezing so all the ice didn't really melt until Saturday.  

Thankfully it melted enough in time for us to go to our friends house for Christmas Eve.  We enjoyed a wonderful dinner with the Blanchards, and the kids all had a blast acting out the Nativity.  They especially loved all the costumes!  

Then we headed home to open our Christmas Eve presents and read the Christmas Story in the Bible and then put the younger kids to bed and get everything ready for Christmas morning.  

The older kids got blankets and pillows instead of PJs this year - and they were a big hit and ended up with the older kids all burritoed up in their blankets and rolling around the floor together and giggling!  

With Christmas on a Sunday, we did things a bit differently this year.  We got up for church and let the kids dig in their stockings a bit so that they could grab their breakfasts.  Then we got ready for church and headed out.  We had a second beautiful Christmas program with beautiful music and testimonies.  I was playing the organ and Anna was directing the music.  I also sang O Holy Night.  I had a sweet lady come up after and tell me that her cynical teenage daughter had cried and had a spiritual experience as I sang - and it is those moments that are why I love singing.  I am so grateful for the times when the Lord has taken my meager offering and magnified it to touch hearts.  After church, we went to a new member baptism and then with anxious kids, headed home.  

The kids finished their stockings and we began opening the presents.  It was so fun watching them and their excitement.  

We spent some time on a zoom call with the Francone family.  It was wonderful to chat with Grandpa and my uncles and cousins and hear about what they have been doing recently and their holidays.  It was also nice to reflect as I talked about our holidays on just how blessed we are.  

In the afternoon, Dan and I took a walk.  As we walked we found it kinda crazy just how many sheriff's cars with sirens went by us and we found out why a bit further into our walk.  We were met by a very nice police man who kindly asked us to walk another way home since there were pointed guns.....  Sigh... so we turned around and took another way home.  It was a beautiful day to be out walking though since the weather had finally warmed up!  

After a Christmas dinner of crepes and fruit, we had a fun evening playing games - and trying out our new family game Hand to Hand Wombat.  

Last Week of School this Year!

 We started the week out with a bang.  David and James had pajama day at school which is always the favorite spirit day - they rarely bother with the other ones - so they both went in their coziest pajamas!  I had my usual morning work out, then I had to pick Eileen up from one appointment and drop her off for her final at school (which took about 15 minutes) and then pick her up from that and somewhere in there, I had to get the grocery shopping done and get lunch.  

Monday evening was our Cookie Cookout.  We just did the sugar cookies and decorating, the rest of the cookies got done at various times during the rest of the week - but that was all we had time for before Anna had to leave for her rehearsal.  

Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, Anna had the Yuletide concert at Mountainside high school.  Between playing with the band and the pieces that she was accompanying on the piano - she was in a quarter of the numbers and did an amazing job!  Evelyn went on Tuesday, and I went on Wednesday.  It's a fun concert and a fundraiser for the band and I love seeing Anna so involved in music!  

I had water polo on Tuesday and Thursday and Dan and the teens had youth activities on Wednesday.  We finally managed to finish up the last of the dentist appointments this week - now we have a 6 month break before we have to figure them all out again.  lol - but at least their teeth are all healthy.  Eileen made a neat comment after her appointment about making sure that she makes and goes to dentist appointments when she moves out and goes to college,  even though she doesn't really like going to the dentist.  She's getting so mature.  :)  

Friday I met up with some friends for our last ladies lunch before the new year and before kids get out of school, we had a nice lunch and a fun time talking! 

In the evening, Dan and I went to a Hawaiian themed Ugly Sweater Party.  It was a fun party with a bunch of our friends from the ward and we had a fun time eating and chatting and playing games.  

Saturday morning, Anna and I were up early to go to our rehearsal for Peter the Rock.  Then we grabbed some lunch and hung out until water polo at Parkrose.  We had fun playing and had a fun court 6x6 which was a lot of fun!  Then in the evening, Anna went to babysit Taz and Kai, then Aaron and I went to Tigard for open polo.  We had a fun time and had a big group, but I was tired by the end!!  

Today was our ward's Christmas Program (kinda our first Christmas Program, but who's gonna complain about more music!)  Our ward accompanist was going to be gone next week, so we had our 3 choir numbers and one other musical number today with testimonies.  It was wonderful.  The other musical number was one of the young women playing the violin on O Come, O Come Immanuel.  She did amazing and I got to accompany her!  It was a wonderful program!  And there will still be a few more musical numbers next week!  YEY!

After church, since we didn't have choir, we finally got around to dropping off our Christmas Cookie plates!  We had fun singing and saying hi to friends and sharing our favorite Christmas Cookies!  

Anna had her Encore Fireside tonight - she's got one last performance with them tomorrow, but this was their last fireside.  And she did amazing - she has grown so much as a pianist from learning and performing this piece.  She has also grown as a singer from singing with the choir.  I'm so glad she's had these opportunities!  

Christmas Busy

We are officially into the crazy busy Christmas time of year.  We had a rather crazy busy week this week.  Between getting stuff ready for Christmas and school activities and Christmas parties and Musical events, all on top of the usual stuff, it's been a crazy week!!  

Evelyn was on stage crew for the middle school play and this was tech week, so she had rehearsals at the school every night this week.  Then she had her performances Thursday, Friday and Saturday.  They did Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.  Dan and I went to see it on Friday, and had fun.  The kids did a great job and had a lot of fun doing it!  

Eileen enjoyed her quiet stay house/dog sitting at Aunt Sandi's house.  Dan brought her home with him after work on Tuesday and then she and I went to the Relief Society Christmas activity.  It was really nice and the food was yummy and the program was really nice too!  I had to take off a bit early to get to water polo, and Eileen got a ride home with a friend.   

Wednesday was a combined youth activity talking about FSY this summer and the kids came home excited to go this summer!  

Thursday, I went to Dan's work to do the company pictures.  Jon likes how I do them because I'm fast and I'm willing to be paid in lunch.  So I took quick pictures and then had lunch with everyone in the office.  And no this wasn't his official picture, but it's my favorite.  :)

Friday we had a bunch of dentist appointments.  I had mine in the morning, I walked over right after the Zumba class in the morning, I was a bit early and the patient before me went a bit long, so I got to sit in the waiting room reading for a while.  They felt bad about making me wait and gave me a couple Starbucks gift cards, but I honestly didn't mind waiting and quietly reading.  :)  Eileen and Dan also had appointments this week and thankfully all went smoothly - no cavities and all is well.  

Saturday was crazy....  Anna and I went to our Peter the Rock rehearsal, but we could only stay about an hour, then we had to take off to get Anna to her Tuba Christmas rehearsal.  I dropped her off downtown and then headed back to play water polo with the Masters group and had a great time - I was playing well which was fun!  Then I grabbed a quick lunch and headed back to go listen to Tuba Christmas.  It was so much fun - a huge group of tubas and euphoniums and a huge crowd gathered to listen.  It was fun to listen to Christmas music, even if it was out in the rain and Anna had a lot of fun doing it.  It was wet and rainy, but still a lot of fun!  

After, we went home and did scriptures and prayers with the kids before heading out to take Aaron to babysit Taz and Kai and then going to the company Christmas party.  It was a fun night of chatting and eating and it went longer than expected - everyone was much more eager to chat this year and 3 hours later and it was still going strong.  Dan and I finally got out of there and got home with Aaron, then I grabbed Anna and we headed out for open polo and played until 11.  It was a fun evening and it's fun getting to know more people in the community.  After 3 hours of playing water polo today, I was pretty ready for bed though!  

Church today was great - great talks and primary went well.  Ward choir after was wonderful - I love Christmas music and it's such a great group of people!!  Then in the evening, Anna had her Encore fireside at our church building.  It was such a wonderful fireside and she did amazing.  They wanted kids to accompany where possible and Anna was the only one who was willing to try doing one of the parts for Joy to the World because it was crazy hard - but Anna has never been one to shy away from doing hard things - she worked so hard to get this ready and she did SO well!!!  It was an amazing piece and she did an amazing job!!  The whole fireside was a wonderful experience with the spirit there so strongly!  

Christmas is Coming!!

As usual, on the Monday after Thanksgiving, we decorated out tree for Family Home Evening.   We had a fun time hanging ornaments and drinking egg nog and listening to Christmas music.  We got the stockings hung up.  David learned the hard way to not pull on them and gave himself a good scratch to the head.  

Tuesday was back to school for the kids.  Back to all the busy schedule and the added crazy of the holidays.  I had water polo on Tuesday and Thursday.  The kids had their youth activities on Wednesday.  The girls were at the church building, but Dan and Aaron had their activity here - they did a movie night with treats and popcorn.  They had a fun time and the two younger boys and I watched Slumberland upstairs in our room to keep them out from under Dan's feet.  

On Friday, Anna had her tech rehearsal for her concert.  They didn't want kids driving in Portland at night, so I drove her and her friend Valery to the rehearsal and got to sit in and listen and watch.  It was a lot of fun to hear - but it was very strange being on the observer side and not the choir side!  It was so neat getting to watch Anna have these awesome experiences though!  

Saturday was nuts.  Anna and I left early for Peter the Rock rehearsal, then she and I grabbed a quick lunch before I had to drop her off for her matinee concert call time, then I hung around waiting to go to the matinee concert.  The concert was amazing - her choir did a great job - it even brought me to tears - it made me feel a bit like my dad.  But it was a wonderful concert and Anna did an amazing job.   

In the evening, was the ward Christmas party.  It was a lot of fun.  I was asked to sing O Holy Night and I think it went well.  The food was good, the people were awesome and we had a great time.  

Eileen is staying down at Sandi's house and house/dog sitting while Sandi is out of town.  I think she's enjoying the taste of adulthood - mostly.  But we miss her here at home.  :(  

Anna had an evening concert too, so she stayed there until after the second concert when Dan picked the girls up and brought them home.  It was wonderful, but a long tiring day for them!  

After getting the boys to bed, I took a quick walk, then I went to Open Polo down in Tigard.  It was fun, but very different from Masters.  It was nice to get in some playing time since I couldn't play at Parkrose today because of the concert.  h

Church was wonderful - we had a really nice fast and testimony meeting and a great time in primary.  Ward choir went well and it's exciting to get to sing Christmas music!!  We got some snow today - it didn't stick very much because it never got that cold, but it was enough for James and David to build a little snowman in our back yard.  James has been praying for snow for awhile now, but I don't think this was enough for him - he wants it stuck all over the roads so he can sled down the hill next to our house.   It was enough to get swim practice cancelled for tomorrow, but not seminary.  :)   

Anna had her choir's first fireside performance tonight out in Gresham.  We are looking forward to the one next week here at our Stake Center.  Dan and the kids and I watched the Christmas Devotional and then played around for a bit before getting the younger kids to bed and playing games.