December Festivities

This post will show why I didn't get any blogging done in December. There's just too much going on. I didn't even get to go to the Beehive Classic this year and watch a kind of bad BYU trounce a really bad Utah.  But it doesn't look like I was overly missed.

We did go to the drive-thru lights show in South Jordan, where we piled in the back of a pickup truck and watched awesome lights to fun music and sang Christmas carols at the top of our lungs.

And Dahlia and I went to see Livi and Marissa perform at their Wizard of Oz Christmas ballet.

And then there was the Christmas Party.  Mickey and Dally really wanted us to have matching jammies for the breakfast-themed party.  You can see who ended up wearing them - me, that's who.  The girl who spent the early part of December at three different Targets - including the one I sent my sister to!- and anxiously waiting for deliveries from Target.com to get these jammies in the right sizes by party time. But I'd do it again. When you're blessed to have growing up step-kids who beg for matching family jammies, you go with it.

(Even if they prefer the Snoopy jammies their aunts surprised them with.)

Then there was the Christmas Concert with Kristen Chenoweth and the Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square. The concert I didn't think I'd be able to go to since I left my job with the General Authorities and lost the perk of automatic tickets to every Temple Square event. But I forgot that I still have friends in high places!  And a friend invited us to the concert, where Jason and I got to fulfill a life-long dream I didn't know I had of watching Kristen Chenoweth perform "O Holy Night" with the Choir and Orchestra.  It was spectacular and one might almost say life-changing.  So next year I'll start my tradition of NOT going to the Christmas concert - unless they get Josh Groban to come.  In which case, I'm going.  No matter what.

And, finally, we also spent plenty of December nights at home watching Christmas movies and working on the Rudolph puzzle that I think has become Jason's favorite already.