Last Week's Missed Post

 We had a few fun activities last week.
On Thursday night Brynlee got to play her violin at our local grocery store, Fred Meyer. Her teacher has all the students play together. Bryn just started taking lessons a couple months ago, so she and a handful of other kids could only play twinkle twinkle little star (a few variations of it) so they weren't playing the whole time. But Brynlee sure stood up there with pride and was loving being part of the group.

 She was especially happy to wear that Santa hat to perform. She bought it with her own money :).

 I don't remember which day but we went to the lake to play on the ice. Unfortunately Tyler and Brynlee have both misplaced their gloves so they took my two pairs of gloves, so I had none. And Brigham can't keep his on to save his little LIFE (don't ever ask me about babies/toddlers and gloves. It makes my blood boil) so we were in the car most of the time because it was excessively windy and far too cold to be out unprotected. See that glimpse of sun in the picture below? Barely poking through the bottom of the clouds? Yeah. That's about as much of the sun as I've seen in what feels like a year, but is probably only a week or two.

 Briggs loves putting on hats. Probably because of the reaction he gets from all of us.

 Friday night we had our ward Christmas party. Every auxiliary had to get up on stage and sing a Christmas song. This is our primary singing Jingle Bells.

 And here's our combined Elders Quorum and High Priests singing Silent Night. Kenny's on the right (end) in the striped shirt.

Saturday was a long day of BIRTHDAY PARTIES. They literally sucked up the whole day and I only got one bathroom cleaned and that's about it. But oh well, the kids had fun. The first one was for a little girl Kasila in nursery with Kelsey. Kelsey thought it was the best thing ever that she got to go to a birthday party all by herself (except that I had to stay the whole time too :). ) Her mom is a teacher at a elementary school and had permission to use the gym and all their P.E. equipment. So it made for lots of fun play stuff.
Then I ran her home and stuffed a sandwich in my mouth while driving all the kids back for the next birthday party for Connor. He wanted to invite whole families, not just the kids his age. It was at the same place. Kenny stayed home with Briggs so he could take a nice, long nap. Briggs did the napping, not Kenny. Just to clarify. :) Af

Sunday we had church nice and early. We had a big lunch, then I took a lovely nap! We made sugar cookies and that evening went to Palmer to see the Nativity Display. Hundreds of nativities from all around the world and always a gorgeous and different set up in every room. I love that tradition they do. They have a fun scavenger hunt to keep the kids focused and looking intently at the nativities. Of course it's pretty much the worst place in the world to take a 1 year old. So Kenny mostly wrestled Briggs the whole time and tried to keep him from breaking everything in there. We drove around afterwards and looked at lots of pretty Christmas lights, while singing Christmas songs together as a family.