December Happenings

We got our tree up and decorated and also got the house decorations up too!  Calin loved watching us pull out all the shiny red and white balls and really wants to play with those!  Otherwise he has not been too interested in the tree.

 

Robby's schedule at work this year has made it so that he has a long lunch time on Wednesdays.  We have been able to go and visit him on a lot of these Wednesdays and take him lunch!  It is a nice excuse to get out of the house and fun for Calin to see Dad a little more.   As you can tell in these pictures, he LOVES to see Dad!!

 

We have enjoyed lots of nights sitting under the tree.  This is also where we have been listening to "Cinnamon Bear", an old radio program with 26 short episodes that Robby's family has always listened to every Christmas.  They listen to one episode a night up until Christmas.  I think this may be the first year I make it all the way through!

Up until this last Friday the weather in St. George has been beautiful!!  We have enjoyed clear skies and nice mild weather days.  It has been cold at nights and in the mornings, but really nice weather during the day! However, Friday seemed to bring the rainy cold winter...:( Goodbye to fall...in December!! With that nice weather we have tried to spend time outside.  Robby took Calin out to "shoot some hoops" one Friday afternoon.  He sure is getting this boy started early!  

Last week we had Robby's family over to make gingerbread houses.  Yes we did pull out the glue gun this year. It did make some things easier!  

 Everyone working on their houses.

 The Salley family and their finished products! Looking good guys!

 

Grandpa Comeford and his finished house.  

 The McDonald family and their masterpieces! 

Robby's castle masterpiece.  

And you can sort of see my pathetic little house in the corner.  Calin was pretty fussy that night so I didn't get much accomplished.

We went to our ward Christmas breakfast and visit from Santa.  We missed Santa though. :(  (Calin fell asleep in the line so we just went home). We went to Robby's work Christmas party and enjoyed some Christmas guessing and trivia games.  They also played a "name that TV show theme song" game.  I didn't know any of them except for Cheers and Bewitched.  Most of them were old shows.  I felt really young.  We went up to Cedar last night to go to the annual Sorensen (Robby's mom's side) family Christmas party.  It was a fun evening of food and white elephant gifts.  Everyone gets really into the gifts and there were lots of funny presents! Mostly it has just been the usual December craziness of shopping, gifting, and partying!  It has been a great month so far!