It's a Wonderful Life

The kids were very excited about their given task of finding costumes for the Nativity.  It was pretty interesting to see what they would come up the stairs to show me!  Our traditional Christmas Eve dinner could not be more low key.  For the past 5 or 6 years we have been doing tamales which Erik and I love.  The kids however aren't huge fans of them, so they have quesadillas :)   We started our program after dinner.  Anna went first and performed a dance to Michale Buble's "Santa Claus is Coming to Town"  That has been her very favorite song of the season by far!  Wyatt went next and performed a dance as well!  They were fun to watch.  I took the videos on Erik's phone, so they aren't uploaded to the computer yet!  For Jackson's contribution, he made up a fun game where we hid a star in the room while he was blindfolded and then we had to speak to him his directions of where to find it.  It was a bi...

 Last Thursday, we drove to Salt Lake to see the temple lights and also see Savior of the World.  Well we were really cutting it close and we needed to get dinner before the show.    To make a long story short, we walked around way more than we needed to, stayed in super long lines for food only to leave the lines before getting our food, and we didn't make it in time for Savior of the World (and we had sadly paid for those tickets)  After giving up on any hope of our tickets, we went to Pizza Studio at City Creek which was delicious!  And even though Erik and I totally got into a fight about the whole ordeal, it is what it is and hopefully we learned from the experience!  The lights sure were pretty though!  The kids had school the complete week before Christmas which I didn't love (but they will more than make up for it when they have 4 weeks off in Jan-Feb!)  They had their school sing-a-long and sinc...