Christmas Picture 2010

I am not "thrilled" with the photo since I took all of 20 pictures before the sun went down on a Sunday afternoon, but it's gonna have to work since I'm so dang busy this holiday season. I went to print these out a Costco and the YEAR in "new year" was cut off. NOOOOOOO! I don't have time to fix this as we are headed home for Christmas in 5 days so thought I'd post the "good" one for all to see. I ALWAYS send a letter with a picture of my kids, however, my letter is gonna be late as I am shooting for New Years letter and I have NO idea when I'll have time to write it. This holiday season has been hard for me. Very emotional mama is putting it mildly. Wade's last Christmas with us for two years. I really can't talk about it! I am so blessed to have seen him grow and become a man. I am so proud of all my kids. To say the least I cried the whole photo shoot. I'm a mess. I just hope I can get through this season with a little mascara on my puffy eyes.

Christmas On Broadway - 2010

I am the assistant music director of Lone Peak High Schools Productions team. Wade was heavily involved in this when he was in High School. Mr. Smith asked me to help this year and I said YES pretty darn quick. I love these kids and I love being surrounded with music and talent again. This year the music review was Christmas on Broadway. SO fun to work on Christmas music/show for the holidays. Our last show is this next Monday night. It has been a blast. The spring musical is Pride and Prejudice. Super excited about that. I'm so blessed to be working with such talented people.

CHRISTMAS TREE

This deserves a quick blog post. A year ago we moved to Utah and the kids wanted a "real" tree since we finally had snow and I gave my old "fake" tree to my sister prior to the move. I gave in and had to deal with a DEAD tree after a short week and a half and pine needles EVERYWHERE. I vowed never to have a real tree again. Who cares about the smell when YOU have to clean it up! SO I purchased a 7.5ft Christmas tree from everyones favorite store "WALMART" and put it up ALL BY MY SELF. Ok, Ok...Leanna helped, but I have enjoyed it soooo much more than last year. Just knowing the clean up is approaching makes me happy to know I did the right thing. Leanna took this picture. She is just awesome. Merry Christmas!

TEXAS FRIENDS COME TO VISIT!

The Palfreyman family are some of our FAVORITE people on earth. Lucky for us their daughter is going to BYU and they travel up here to visit. Leanna especially has missed her best friend Jason since we moved to Utah. For some wonderful reason we always end up at the Brick Oven for dinner and catching up. This time all the Texas college kids met us too and we enjoyed every minute of it! Happiness in our heart seeing so many great friends.