We love Santa

And he loved us.

(Sorry for the quality; these are pictures of pictures)

At the parlor

I must have eaten at least 2 gallons of ice cream.  We played for a long time.

It's cold outside

This morning the outside temperature dropped below 40 degrees, one of the first times so far this winter.  We stayed cozy in the house and played the "Map Game" and made our own hopscotch.  Virginia has really caught the spirit of the map game, as you can see.  It was a nice morning in our PJ's.

Been a while

We've been around, but I haven't had my camera at the ready lately.  I feel like a slacker.  So, here's what I've got.

We went to UT for Thanksgiving and the BYU game.  I'll take the win, but it sure wasn't pretty.
Grammy had a little program on Thanksgiving and Savannah sang a little song.  And then we played the chimes.  Totally my favorite part.

Here are a few random shots from around the house:

I was in charge of a RS activity where we made these baby gowns for a charity here out of XXL t-shirts from Old Navy.  (Really easy, really fun.)  They are so cozy and turned out to be very cute.  This is half of the stack.

The other day we did this:

 It is just a mountain of macaroni (you know, the cheap stuff that costs $3 for 6 lbs?) spread out on a sheet.  The rules: no macaroni leaves the sheet.  They played in it quietly for nearly an hour.  Cleanup was a snap--gather the 4 corners and dump it back into a large plastic bin.  Nice.  (Credit my Mother for another fantastic idea.)