December 2018

Peter just chillin' in the Costco cart.

Thank goodness for extended family to entertain Peter during stake conference.

Lamoni/Benjamin and Papa/Ryan went up to the mountains to sled after stake conference while I took Peter home to nap. It was deemed a "Sabbath activity" since they were with family. :-)

The end of semester cello group concert.

Peter got to go up with Joy and ring bells for Jingle Bells.

A picture of the natvity.

Our church hosts Celebration of the Nativity where there are hundreds of nativities displayed from around the world. They also had interactive stations for kids set up like this one.

Benjamin performed a few Christmas songs on the cello at the Celebration of the Nativity so we went out for an ice cream treat afterwards.

The night of stake conference we found out we were pregnant! I sadly lost that baby on Christmas Eve.

Benjamin made this gingerbread house at his art class. Note the snowman and the dog waiting at the front door.

Peter's favorite thing is to jump into the pool and swim to us.

At our ward Christmas party.

Some friends invited us to Chuck E Cheese for their baby's baptism celebration.

Grandma and Bampa gave the boys these fun toys for Christmas. We were only slightly surprised with how feisty Peter was and how he could knock Benjamin over.

Benjamin had his Suzuki book 1 graduation when we had all our family in town for Christmas. He played about 15 songs by memory!

My brother, Jacob, graduated from UNM with his Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, so we had a party for him at Azuma on Christmas Eve.

Isabelle, our sitter who lives over our back wall, gave the boys some really thoughtful gifts.

The Christmas Eve Nativity reenactment with Katheryn (and Joy stepped in to help).

Santa came! He brought fun toys and a big boy bed for Benjamin.

Also a really loud annoying microphone.

Peter just saw these pictures and said "I want to go to Christmas again!!"

We went sledding and took Ryan with us again.

Grammy and I had sooo much fun doing family history for hours and hours while she was visiting for Christmas. Lamoni was good about keeping the boys and everything under control while I was zoned out. I like to compare doing family history with video gaming addiction.