We got our tree from Home Depot again this year. Jim went into the store to buy some stuff he needed for the house. The girls and I were supposed to pick out our tree while he was shopping. I can't really unwrap trees, stand them up, spin them around, and make decisions all by myself. So we looked at a couple and then mostly stood out there in the cold waiting for Jim to come help us. I'm such a dependent lady. Once he finally got out there, Jim told the worker we'd take the first one I looked at. Then Wren decided she needed to go to the bathroom, so I took the little people inside. Tiny and Wrenzy ran through the store and weren't in a listening mood.
Back at home, Jim continued work on the bathroom.
That weekend Ever had a camping trip with her Daisy troop to Camp Winacka. Anna said they had one last year at the same time - right before Christmas, and on Ever and Leela's birthday weekend. The timing was not ideal, and the only girls who could make it besides Ever and Leela were the daughter and granddaughter of the leaders and two other girls (who are cousins). Anna took the girls up Friday afternoon, December 14. She documented their s'mores-making that night:
She also texted me proof that they helped with breakfast dishes Saturday morning.
It was supposed to be really cold that weekend, so Sara and Marin had planned to do a bunch of crafts inside and then get outdoors to the extent possible. The weather ended up being beautiful and not very cold at all. We did the crafts on the porch of the craft building.
Then we squeezed in a walk around the lake before dinner.
We enjoyed the pretty yellow trees.
We saw a bunny on our way back up the hill, and the girls took out their binoculars and watched it as if it were the most exciting wildlife imaginable.
We enjoyed a dinner of spaghetti, bread, and broccoli at the cabin.
Marin and the girls wrote a song.
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A couple of girls started bringing mattresses in from the back room and making a stack in the living area. Soon all hands were on deck, and the girls managed to get every single mattress onto the pile. It was quite impressive.
Ever and I came home Saturday night so we could make 9:00 A.M. church Sunday morning.
Jim was so cute with the girls in nursery.
For the first handful of weeks in our new ward, Jim and I went into the nursery. We realized on the second or third week that there were no people in there who were actually called to the nursery. The boundary changes left a lot of callings to be filled, so most of us from Oceanside 4th just started helping in the auxiliaries we were in before the changes. Jim is so great in nursery and Primary. He and Derrick were hoping to be called as co-teachers in Primary, but ultimately Jim was called as Second Counselor in Young Men.
Back to Sunday, December 16. We decorated the tree that afternoon. Jim was very pleased that it was a family affair. In the past, he's just done it himself while I've been preparing lunch, feeding the kids, and getting them to bed.
To complete the festivities, the girls watched Polar Express. They passionately loved it and talked about it constantly for weeks afterward.
Christmas is the best.
2 comments:
So cute they loved PE so much.
Christmas is the best! Good work on the festivities. And Tiny's perpetually underdressedness is perplexing and amazing.
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