Christmas is upon us....

My favorite time of year! So far, we've been busy. The Monday before Thanksgiving we went to Orem City's lights on ceremony. After some long speeches and some awful country singer (why must it always be country?!?), they finally lit up all of the trees. The look on McKade's face was priceless. Oh, the wonders of the season!
The night after Thanksgiving we were surprised on our way to the Tongs with the Spanish Fork Christmas Light Parade. We joined the Tongs on the side of the road to watch a pretty fun little show. Now if only they'd have had Disneyland's Main Street Electrical Parade song playing it would have been complete. I guess since it was Christmas, they decided to go that route with the music. Santa was there and that made the kids pretty excited! After some good 'ol small town fun we headed to the Tongs for some fun games with them and the Jensens. As always, we had a good time and stayed up way too late.Last weekend was the kicker. On Friday we went up to SLC to Hogle Zoo t0 see Zoo Lights. It was really cool. The Tongs, the Hanamaikais, and the Jensens (minus Colby) all joined us and we had a great time! We didn't see many real animals but they did have a bazillion lighted animals all over. It was really pretty and quite impressive. Of course, that night was the first night it decided to drop to like 25 degrees and we froze our tails off but we had a fun time anyway.

Nick & Dylan are the best of friends & love being together! Nick will be devastated when they move as will all of us!

The next morning we headed back up to SLC for the Festival of the Trees. Skylar's dance company always has their Christmas performance there. The trees are always cool to see. I had to laugh at the Twilight trees that all of the girls were getting their pictures taken at. The coolest tree by far was the fully blown glass one. It was beautiful! Ben's dad and my parents both came to see Skylar dance and she did a wonderful job. She LOVED her costume this year because it had a giant tutu. She totally felt like a ballerina. Now the question is where do we store that thing until the Spring concert?


Afterwards we dropped all of the kids, even Alexis, off at my mom & dad's and Ben & I went to see the Body Worlds exhibit downtown. Okay, so not too Christmassy, but wow! I just have to say wow! It was totally awesome! I love stuff like that and was amazed at how cool it was. My favorite thing about it was the intelligence of the surrounding people. The best line was: "Did you see that body over there? The girl is soooo skinny!" Um, yeah, chick, everyone's pretty skinny when they've been stripped down to just their skeleton and muscles. Amazing!