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2nd week Adventing

Day 8:  We made homemade ornaments - button wreaths - & they turned out even more ghetto than I imagined they would =) Awesome!

Day 9:  We watched the First Presidency Christmas devotional for family home evening.  Everyone was amazed at all the lights on Temple Square & how beautiful the conference center looked.  I love listening to the orchestra! I wish they played along for General Conference. 

Day 10:  Snowflake making!

Day 11:  Gifts of self.  Each person thinks of a service or something nice they can do for every other person in the family, we write it down or draw it & put it in our stockings.

Day 12:  We decided to make a gingerbread train instead of a house this year - thanks to Safeway for providing the kit! 

Day 13:  Chocolate covered pretzels- one of my favorites =)

Day 14:  We drove to Portland to spend the day with my parents & Brigg & Hava & their boys.  We were going to go see the zoo lights but it was so crowded they were sending people away.  But we had a good time anyway! We played all sorts of fun games in the gym at their church, watched the Grinch, played a Harry Potter trivia game, ate yummy pizza & had an impromptu piano recital.

 

Day 15: This was our day of service & out of all the choices the kids wanted to write thank you notes 

Justy wrote me a note to thank me for playing games with him.  He drew this portrait of me =) When Jeremy asked him what those dots were on my face he said they were 'Mommy's owies' I'm still giggling hard over that one.  At church I was picking up Hunter from class & his teacher said 'Hunter your Mom is here'.  One little girl said 'That's not Hunter's Mom!!'  I reassured her I was & she said 'Ohhhh I thought you were Hunter's Grandma!'  And earlier that day at church I had been told I sounded like a teenager on the phone.  I can't stop giggling every time I think of any of this!

Hunter wrote a note to one of his school friends.  "Do you want to play Spiderman and Spiderman next recess? Love Hunter" I think he meant to say spiderman & batman but not bad for a 5 year old!

Yummy cereal!