Christmas Run Down

The month of December was insane at our house. We didn't have a lot of time to stop and enjoy the season, which is sad. Jeremy and I worked overtime each week and had a lot of on-call time. I can't believe it's already over. Here is a quick run down of what went on at our house.

Hayden spent this year with her Dad, and so she got to come home and see what Santa had brought her at 11 p.m. Christmas night. kinda crazy.

She got a much needed bike

Hayden will not stop growing so things I had bought months ago were too small, a few returns were made.

Hayden coming to see what Santa had brought.

My favorite Christmas decorations . The penguins were a new addition this year.

We spent Christmas Eve at my parents, we had a nice dinner and opened presents.

My Mom gave Hayden this beautiful fairy.

Hayden gave Cache a farm set, he loves cows.

A new church dress from Nana.

Grandma ended up with the best white elephant gift of all, a Snuggie. Now if we can just get her to sit down for two seconds, I think this could be perfect for her.

Jeremy as a truck driver. He got a new cow milking coat and with the Snow White wig, it was a little creepy.

We went down to the Newcomb Christmas party the week before Christmas. It's always fun.

Exchanging gifts

Brittany got the perfect purse for Hayden

Now is all over and the clean up begins. I am looking forward to a more relaxing January.

Temple Square and Tabernacle Christmas Concert

This weekend we traveled to Salt Lake for the annual Mormon Tabernacle Christmas Concert, one of my most favorite events of the year. We left Saturday morning and went to the Clark Planetarium for a 3D IMAX show. We saw "Under the Sea," which we all agreed was the best 3D one we have seen so far. We shopped around at the Gateway and had lunch, it was so much warmer than it had been earlier this week, thank goodness.

At 6 p.m. we went to Temple Square and saw the lights. It's always a sight to see and there were a few new things displayed this year.
After the lights we met Nanna, Harmony and Cannon for some fries and ice cream. We all stayed at the CottonTree Inn in Bountiful. The hot tub and pool were the highlight.

Sunday Morning we went to the Conference Center for the concert. This was Hayden's first time to the Conference Center and the Christmas Concert and seeing President Monson. I was so excited that she was finally able to go. It's a tradition I look forward to and was glad she finally was old enough.

This years guests were Natalie Cole and David McCullough, author and announcer. There is so much that goes into these productions: the Orchestra on Temple Square, the Bells on Temple Square, the Dancers, the children's choirs, Richard Elliot, the amazing organist (he did a NutCracker organ solo that was absolutely phenomenal.) The shows are always so amazing and powerful, they are hard to describe unless you are there.

Every year the concert gets more popular and more people show up, its hard to get tickets. The tickets are done by a lottery and not one of us got tickets this year. We were lucky that some friends had just enough tickets for the 6 of us.

When the concert was over there was a snow storm going on outside. We had lunch together and journeyed home through the snow.