December festivities

 We got our tree put up and decorated.  I got my new missionary ornament for Jared, which I love.   

Alex, Owen, and Savannah went to the ward Christmas party.  Owen played the part of Joseph in the Nativity.  Savannah was an angel.  Alex played a wise man.  I got ahold of a few pictures.  He also participated with the Bishopric in a 12 Days of Christmas song.  I never got a video of that, but apparently it was pretty funny.  I still made cookies and rolls for the party even though I couldn't attend.

I went wild with treat deliveries this year.  I ended up doing 3 rounds, with 4 days of deliveries. I tried to calculate how many I ended up making total.   It was around 318 snickerdoodles (26.5 dozen), 125 cake truffles, and 47 chocolate peppermint loaves.  I also sent out about 60 cards locally and 70 to friends and family far away.  Savannah found a picture online to re-make as a painting for the cover of our Christmas cards.  I scanned her painting, designed, and printed them out on cardstock.  I love how they turned out.  We had a mountain-themed Christmas letter this year, so it went well with our letter.  I didn't send out letters to all the local people, but several got the card and family photo.  It was a lot of work, but I love serving during the Christmas season.

I got to do a few fun things during December.  We went Christmas caroling with a group to older folks.  I took Weston out for lunch on his minimum day.  I also got to eat lunch with friends one day since a friend was visiting from out of town.  Owen is wearing the Christmas socks - just a random funny thing for the season.  He wore them to school. The last collage has a picture of Savannah and a couple good friends at school (sent by a mom).  There's a picture from Owen's choir concert and a screen shot of one of our video chats with Jared.  Nathan has been able to join on the calls from BYU pretty consistently.  I love my Monday phone calls!