Over the Christmas break my brothers were all in town so they helped move my piano from my parent's house over to our new house. It feels like life is more complete now having a piano in the house. Tonight was our first night having Family Home Evening with it and it was so much fun. I actually heard my kids sing. Megan stood on the bench next to me and belted out "I am a Child of God" and Jordan sang, "Holding Hands Around the World." Yes...our home is finally complete!! Now it's time to find a piano teacher for Jordan. I've tried to give him a few lessons, but he insists on doing it his own way...with only one finger...which won't get him very far!
We've had some snow here in Washington, which doesn't happen all that often. The kids have had fun playing in it, but it's real dry, powdery snow so you can't even make a snowball with it. Jordan keeps asking me if I will make a snowman, but it just won't stick together. There's a house in our neighborhood that has a gigantic snowman out in front and I've been tempted to go knock on their door and ask them to help me, or at least tell me how they did it. Maybe got out the hose and wet it down? Not really sure...it's a mystery. Someday we will build that snowman!!
Christmas day was very busy, but fun. We're lucky that both families live close by so we can see everybody. We opened presents at our house, then went to the Stout's where we had a very yummy breakfast and then to my parent's for the afternoon. The kids loved seeing all their cousins and opening presents all day long. At the beginning of the day, Megan was a little hesitant and very careful when opening up her presents, but by the end she had it all figured out and was ripping open her presents and everyone else's too.
Our little sassy fairy princess!
I just downloaded my pictures from today and I will do more on Christmas another day, but I had to put up these darling pictures of Megan and Lily in matching pajamas. They did a little photo shoot for us after their bath, which was a very wild and splashy one, I might add.
They've discovered a new activity which involves hours of uninterrupted, non-fighting, non-mess- making play. Hope this lasts!!!!
My mom and I went to Utah for the weekend to spend some time with Marianne. We had a lot of fun shopping, eating good food, talking, laughing and just being together. On Saturday we were able to go see the BYU folk dancers perform "Christmas around the World." It was a super fun weekend....just went by way too fast, at least for me. Andrew would probably have a different opinion about that, although he's always happy to let me go and have a little getaway. I'm a lucky gal!!!
The Bolles Quartet minus one, plus 2 new additions played "Away in a Manger." I like this picture because it captures the look on my dad's face listening to us play. I usually don't get to see the expression on his face when we play, I just know it makes him cry...which really isn't all that hard to do!!
