At the kids school they do this thing called "Dads and Donuts" or "Mom's and Muffins" where you go listen to your kids read to you and look at what they have been doing. The other day it was Dads and Donuts for Maron's class. I thought it was kind of funny. Maron had an outfit all picked out for Christian to wear. Purple shirt, tan pants, and no tennis shoes! Christian was such a sport. Not only did he wear the chosen outfit but he didn't feel well. What a good sport.

Silly Maron

Family home evening this week we talked about giving not just receiving gifts. We made a list of the things we thought we wanted for Christmas. We then talked about Christmas being Christ's birthday and how we can give Him gifts. We talked about what gifts we could give. (sharing, being kind, reading our scriptures, saying our prayers, including others, saying Hi, smiling, etc...)

We wrote these down and put them in these boxes we made and hung them on our Christmas tree.

We love family home evening!

We have also been doing some Christmas traditions. 1. The Friend magazine had a fun advent calendar that asks a question every night about the birth of our Savior 2. We light our advent wreath on the four Sundays before Christmas and talk about what they stand for. 3. We have been reading stories and singing a hymn every night. 4. We have a candy count down that Jordon, Gavon and I made one day.

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I love this time of year. I love the time we spend together talking/sharing/visiting/and worshiping as a family.

We talked last night about what it means to "adore" Him. (Oh come let us adore Him) We looked up adore in the dictionary-Adore 1.Worship 2. To regard with loving admiration 3. To be extremely fond of. We then looked up the word worship. Worship- Worthiness, respect, reverence paid to a Divine being. What do you do to adore/worship/remember/be like Him?

12/10 I'm not liking this new camera very much. I liked my old one better. I can't seem to focus on anything and get a nice picture. I want my old camera back!

Madison's dance concert.

We went as a family last week to watch Madison at her dance concert. She did a great job. She has really enjoyed dance this year.

We went to a couple of wrestling tournaments last week too. I think the camera ate the pictures. I can't seem to find them. Trenton has done a really good job this year. He has won almost all of his matches except the one where he felt like he was coming down with the flu and just didn't feel so great