December happenings, Christmas, New Year's...
Let's begin by enjoying a moment of cuteness...
Amy returned from her trip to the Dominican Republic
We started the month of December off by enjoying a number of performances...
Ballet Wests, "The Nutcracker," at the Capitol Theater in Salt Lake City
was everything I have imagined it would be, and more!
WOW!!!
All the festive lights on the way to the theater...
Eric gave us tickets to the Hale Center Theater in Sandy to see Charles Dickens, "A Christmas Carol!"
I've been wanting to see the new theater there and it was stunning!!!
Little L was in a ballet performance of her own...
She did a spectacular job!!!
So cute!!!
The First Presidency Christmas Devotional was touching
Luke's Christmas party at SNAP
Enjoyed hearing the award-winning Skyridge choir
They are phenomenally talented!
Made cinnamon rolls for the ward Christmas party breakfast
Shepherd's feast
We did the nativity a bit early this year with grandkids and Eric's kids
Christmas movie night
L's birthday presents
Fun with stickers nativity
Grandkids
They light up our world!
Brian and Chloe's Christmas picture
taken by her sister Xan
Tim, Luke, Brian and W took a load to the dump where our construction vehicle-loving grandson was able to see an excavator, among other cool equipment!
Luke loved the trip too!
It was a good reminder to declutter and weed out our stuff!
Went sledding at Tibble Fork
We've been blessed with so much snow so far this year
It's really helping the drought situation-so grateful for it!
Decorating sugar cookies
Took a turn cleaning the meeting house
These plaques at the church have several of our kids names on them
This one has three
This one has four names, can you spot them?
We took Luke out to see the Christmas lights.
Many of the houses have lights that a synchronized to music that you can access on the radio station
-so fun!!!
Stop #1: 1039 W 1630 S Lehi
Stop #2: 2489 W. 700 S. Lehi 107.7
Stop #3: 634 S 640 W. Lehi
Stop #4: 37 E. 920 S. Lehi
Stop #5: 250 E. 700 S. Lehi
Stop #6: 100 S. Center St. Lehi
Stop #7: 1031 W 300 N
Stop #8: 1196 W 1425 N Lehi
Stop #9: 348 W 1560 N Lehi
Stop #10: 366 W 2800 N Lehi
This was an activity that Luke loved so much!
It's sometimes tricky to find things he loves to do.
This one was a hit!
The three of us...
Tim took Luke swimming during the break...
Another activity he enjoys immensely!
He loves to jump on the trampoline too...
Amy left with her cousin Rachel H and some friends to spend Christmas break in Mexico,
so we spent a night opening presents with her before she left...
She got Luke lots of cool gifts...
Amy opened her gifts
We enjoyed reading Christmas books with the grandkids
2022 Christmas card...
This is how Christmas Eve went this year...
See the resemblance, like father....?
We had a breakfast of blueberry crepes with whipped cream, chocolate and bacon
We opened Brian and Chloe's family presents on Saturday morning
They decided to wait and open some of Amy's presents when she got back from Mexico...
Presents mixed with play time
The adult kids got Legos and proceeded to put them together...
Christmas Day
We opened more presents and went to church for one hour
The Christmas music there was spectacular!
Luke snuck into the laundry room with his favorite yakisoba feast, made a bench out of a tall laundry basket, and shut the door so he could celebrate Christmas in peace
Brian and Chloe came for lunch and then Kelsee came with M, L and A and we ate and opened gifts
The kids played with the toys they got...
Eric came for dinner
We had a Choate siblings call in the evening and caught up with December relatives happenings.
New Year's Eve 2022
Amy had a bit of trouble getting home from Mexico...
When she went to board the plane, the airport worker said she needed an immigration stamp and sent her on a wild goose chase (apparently, when you drive into a country and fly back, you need an immigration stamp, which is a good thing to know). She got food poisoning and threw up in the garbage can and had bad diarrhea. Sorry, probably too much information! She missed her flight and then had to buy another ticket. She flew to Texas and spent the night in the airport. Early the next morning, she flew to Las Vegas, NV and then finally made it back to Utah on New Year's Eve.
She took a long bath in lavender epsom salts, was able to eat some soup, and slept for a few hours before the festivities began...
Fortunately she felt much better after that!
Eric's family came over, Leland came and Brian and Chloe's family
We ate dinner...
Leland made an amazing escape room with lots of puzzles and problems to figure out...
Oh boy, this is only a fraction of all the things we did to find the code.
There were many layers of things to figure out...
It was really amazing!
Sparkling cider
And sparklers...
Opening gifts from Amy
and some more from Eric...
More puzzles and Yahtzee
And then...
10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1...
Happy New Year!
2023
Year of the rabbit!
And just for fun...
Precious picture of my parent's wedding day!
