Merry Christmas

Whoever ends up with Cocoa the Cow on New Years day at 9 a.m. is the winner. The kids have had so much fun trying to get him. Christmas Eve we were at Borgstroms. The nativity this year was great.

Merry Christmas everyone! I am so grateful for this time of year, to learn/be reminded of our Savior Jesus Christ. This year we did the 12 days of Christmas that we received from the Clarks from South Ogden. He was our bishop. We haven't read these for a couple of years, so it was new for the kids. It was nice. I hope they gain their own testimonies of our Savior.

 

Christmas Sunday

On the 21st we went with Mikes family to the Family History Center. We took a little class. Everyone now has a log in. We took some fun pictures and did an escape room. Then Grandpa took us all to Red Robbin for lunch.

Happy Christmas Sunday. I loved todays meeting. The songs, the messages. Sidney played the piano which brought me to tears. She is so talented!

After church we had some snacks and played games. After dinner we went and stole the Cocoa the Cow from the Wards. The kids had so much fun with that game. Then we went to the Ogden lights. What a great day!

December Catch Up

We had a busy week! On the 6th me and Mike saw Nate Bargatze, with the best seats in the house!🤪Tuesday Bensen had his first orchestra concert. Me and Mike went to the dress rehearsal because we had tickets to Lindsey Stirling that night. I felt so bad missing his concert. I was pretty impressed with how good they sounded. He had a lot of family support! We are blessed with amazing family!
Lindsey Stirling was pretty good. So loud and so bright. By the end of the night we were blinded and deaf!
Viv had a basketball game on Wednesday. She is starting to get so good! She only has one game left. She has been pretty fun to watch!
Viv had a tumbling performance on Thursday. She did great, then we went and watched Elsie and Brighams choir concert. They both did great!
Saturday we had our ward Christmas breakfast. After breakfast Viv had another tumbling performance. We helped Josh and Jetta get packed up ready to move. Then we took the kids (Wes didn’t want to go, so Elsie got his ticket) to the Perry theater to watch White Christmas. It wasn’t our favorite. But we still had a great time!

November

We had fun at Wesley’s lacrosse tournament in Vegas this weekend! He got to try face-offs for the first time and even spent some time on defense. He says attack is still his favorite position!😀We also got to see Andrew, Cheryl and Quentin for a little bit, which was nice.

This house is officially braces-free…for now anyway 😬Wesley got his off on September 22, Viv got hers off November 3!

We got to see the Northern Lights from our house. Mike says they are a scam since you can only see them really well through a camera lens. The sky definitely looked a little red even with out the camera.

Wesley got asked to the Harvest dance by Aaliyah. They had fun.

Penny  got sick. One morning Wesley found that she had puked in her bed. I cleaned it up, after the kids went to school me and Mike went to a movie. When we got home we found that she had puked all over the house. It was everywhere. Then she was fine for a day...then the diarrhea started. It was definitely worse then the throw up. It was bad. It's times like these I am glad I don't let her on the couch, because I would have gotten rid of it. Mike shampooed the carpet I steam moped the floor and she was banished to a little section in the kitchen. I did end up taking her to the Dr. he gave me an antibiotic to give her. She is much better now.

Me and Mike went to Mueller for a ride and got rained on big time! It was so cold! It was bad enough that we didn't finish, we turned around before Elephant Rock. I don't know if I will go our again until it warms up a bit.

We went and saw the second part of Wicked on the 25th. Jaycee had to work, she went with Sarah and her family the day before. It was ok. I am at an age where if I sit down and I'm not doing anything then I am going to fall asleep...I tried really hard to stay awake, but I didn't. 😴

I only have one picture of Thanksgiving. We were with my family this year. Good food, good company.

On the 28th we went to the Christmas Tree Jubilee with the Ulrichs.