Of course, we had to go back downtown for a rally - this time to protest the federal decision to reduce the size of the national monuments (Bear's Ears & Escalante) in Utah. This is sad. Those areas are so incredibly beautiful, but soon they will be destroyed by grazing, quarries, and drilling.
I spent the morning with Michelle making our wreaths at Red Butte Gardens.
We enjoyed the faculty club Christmas party on campus, followed by a weekend at Snowbird. The kids tried on all of their new equipment, remembered what to do on skis, and spent plenty of time in the pool. We have not had too much snow in Utah yet. Pray for snow! We need it.
There were holiday performances at both girls' schools. Steve and Becky played xylophones in the parent orchestra again. I must have been so nervous for our number that I forgot to take any photos or videos of Carolyn's performances. Lizzie waved some string around to be wind (perhaps it was an interpretative dance) and then sang some Christmas carols.
The girl scouts saw The Nutcracker. Lizzie and Ava absolutely loved it (so did Carolyn), then they danced all the way down the street back to our car.
After the Nutcracker, we went to a fancy hotel downtown to look at the window displays and the world's largest gingerbread house. Well, I am not sure if it is really the world's largest, but it is BIG.
We had friends over to make and decorate cookies.
We made a lot of crafts. Carolyn taught us how to make giant paper and popsicle stick snowflakes. The gingerbread house is always a favorite (messy!) activity too.
We enjoyed family movie nights in our matching pajamas and a striped blanket that fits all of us, made by the talented knitters in Ohio. Lizzie is so happy to have her very own blanket now.
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