A mix of things

I thought I'd catch up a little on here before things get too crazy.....

First, I have a new calling: beehive advisor! I love it! I've been wanting to be in the YW since I graduated high school, but I knew I wouldn't be called until I looked old enough to be a leader :) I guess now I finally do!

We've had the Christmas tree up since a couple days after Thanksgiving, but I wanted to post some pics. We are starting a new tradition where the kids get a new ornament every year. Last year Aidan picked Spiderman(of course) and this year he went with green(still his favorite color). Tanner got an Elmo and Grover. Aidan did all of the decorating that he could reach...I thought he did pretty well. Tanner is continuously taking all the red ones off(his favorite color) so it's gets a little annoying redecorating every night.




On Dec 11th we went to temple lights with my sister Becky and her husband Jared. We went to eat at Poncho's before; which just wasn't the same as I remember it as a kid. It was pretty cold that night, but not too bad. Tanner loved being completely bundled up. He kept saying, "oh" and "wow". He loved all the lights. Aidan enjoyed the nativity scene, especially when it was in Spanish :)





The next night we hosted a Christmas party for all of my family. I completely forgot to take pictures. We ordered A LOT Macayos but apparently I forgot how big my family is, because we barely had enough to feed everyone! We had a white elephant gift exchange, played some Christmas Taboo and a little charades and Jeremy brought a telescope and we all checked out the huge moon. We ended up staying up until 3 am because the guys got the idea to play some classic Halo. We used to do that all the time when it first came out. It turned out to be a really good night...I love my family!

The next day (Saturday the 13th now) Becky and Jared invited us over for some pizza and gingerbread house making. Aidan did really well this year. He only snuck a few pieces of candy while building. He didn't want to copy the picture that came with it, he wanted it to be his creation. After he was all done he said, "lets make it like the picture now." It was a little late for that :)




And finally, last night I went and saw Twilight, for the second time. I went with my sister and her hubby and my mom. My mom hadn't seen it and we wanted her to know what she had been missing. There is this theater real close to our house that does $5.50 movies on Tuesdays. I'll have to remember that from now on! Well, the movie was good, again, and even my mom caught a little of the Edward fever. How can anyone resist?!