The Holiday Whirl

It was a crazy two weeks - lots of eating (and subsequently a lot of grocery shopping), a lot of playing, and in the end, a lot of sickness :-(

Christmas Eve was the traditional Christmas story, complete with costumes.  Who knew the shepherds were such great dancers - ours were!  They made the Christmas story quite poetic with their ballet moves during the story.

Ethan spent Christmas Eve day at Cabellos with all of the guys.  It was a bit more than he could handle towards the end.......

Claire's great grandma made her a Frozen quilt.  It is hard to see in the picture, but each snowflake was cut and sewn on - it was a lot of work and Claire loved it.  She said her toes would finally stay warm....not sure what that means, she isn't that tall.

Phil and Logan went out because Logan has finally saved enough for a good down payment on a used car.  They came back with this beaut.  Logan feels liberated having a car.  Megan and Brian were very good to him these last couple of years, letting him borrow their car and picking him up when he needed rides places.  It is good to have a sister close.  But he finally made the plunge and is happier for it!

Bryan found us a good used ipad mini for Ethan for Christmas.  He has the capability to text and facetime, which he takes full advantage of.  After we took Ethan to see "Shrek: The Musical" he found the same thing on Netflix.  He has been spending time watching it, too much time actually.....

because he is dressing up as Lord Farquad and making up several scenes of the musical.

We received a lot of snow over the holiday.  The light, fluffy snow that is fun to play in and easy to shovel.  The kids spent a lot of time outside playing in it, even though it was super cold.  Kids are tough.

Jordan spent a lot of time snap-chatting, trying to convince me to get it on my phone.  I resisted the temptation.   

Megan and I went to Orem's public library which has, I think, the largest collection of fairy tales anywhere.  There are 12 sections like this one in the picture.  It is AMAZING.  I was in heaven - next time we visit, I am making a trip to the library first thing instead of two days before I leave. 

This is where "Storytime" is held.  Isn't that awesome?!?We got to meet Logan's new friend, Heidi.  She is sweet, kind, funny and adorable. 

Towards the end, the flu started going around.  Phil, who has not been sick a day with the flu for the last 31 years, was hit first.  Then all of Megan's family got it to one degree or another.  It was a rough final week.  No one else in my family got it, but I was preparing for the worse!  Thankfully, we got home unscathed.  Now, to stay healthy at school will be the challenge!

It was a great two weeks.  Thanks to Brian and Megan for hosting us for so long.  Thanks to the boys for coming and hanging out with us.  It was good to sit around it the evening with the whole family together.  I miss those days, and it was fun to have the whole family together again.  I just wish we could of taken family pictures before the flu hit us!!  I don't know when we will all get together again, but pictures will be the first thing on my agenda!!