December Activities

- Alpine Living Nativity with all the Activity Day girls

- Rachel finishing another Harry Potter book

- SNOW

- Art Hub for Kids cartoon drawing lessons 

- Caught Andrew and Kendall sleeping together in the top bunk for a few nights

- Street Party - one of the gifts was a globe with our faces in it and "world's best neighbors"

- Vivint Solar family party ice skating (Carson even got in on the fun)

- Decorating Dan Peterson school with snowflakes from Barratt students

- Ward Christmas Breakfast

- Running into Ezra at the haircut place

- Rachel learning how to dip chocolates with the cousins and Grandma Nancy and visiting Pookie/Papa

- Brandon getting an elf costume from a co-worker, then busting out the sewing machine to make it even better and ordered yellow leggings to complete the ensemble

- Ally's bridal shower (Katherine anonymously gave her lingerie+others stuff that caused a lot of giggles)

- Parker/Thompson Talent Show

- Gingerbread houses

- Grandma Nancy & Grandpa Val sleepover - us adults went to Dalton's for dinner

Making Spirits Bright - Christmas Cards

December Performances

Andrew performed with Barratt's school choir at the school and at University Mall.  They practice before on Tuesdays and he hardly ever complains about going.  He is our little enthusiastic singer and is expressive and fun to watch!

Kendall had her Dance Showcase recital and did a great job!  She is a darling dancer and knows all the moves!  She also gets to be in a class with her friend, Kylee, from dance and preschool last year.  Avery came to her recital and dances at the same studio.

SLC Christmas Weekend

We decided to SPLURGE and stay at the Grand America Hotel in SLC for our Christmas hotel weekend.  The kids thought it was SO fancy and they were super grateful.  It was very fun!  We saw the temple square lights and JSB tree, we ALL ate at MOD pizza, got our picture with Santa at City Creek, even ran into cousin Kennedy at the food court play area, got matching reindeer pajamas, watched Home Alone, swam at the hotel pool, saw the windows and gingerbread house at the hotel.  

The funniest part was when we ran into the hotel's adorable Santa and Mrs. Clause in the parking garage.  Grand America does a breakfast with Santa for $40/person, but we weren't ready to splurge that hard, so we were on our way to IHOP for breakfast.  They were so sweet and kind and they let us take a picture with them.