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Christmas 2019

We had a good Christmas!  Here's how I'm remembering it:

On December 15, we had a special family Christmas dinner (I wish I had remembered to take a picture of the beautifully decorated table.)  After dinner we sang songs in the living room, then went to the family room to open presents.  We did it on this day because some members of the family were going to other places to celebrate Christmas.



Later that week, we went to David and Stephanie's new house to make gingerbread houses.  We are excited to have them a lot closer.


We also went to Susanna's last orchestra concert.  She got to be the concertmaster for the last concert in the BYU Symphonic Orchestra:



On Christmas Day, those of us in town got together.  Since it snowed that day, we went in the back and put together some snow creations.





After Christmas and over the school break, we did various activities like hiking:




Cross-country skiing with cousins and regular skiing:



Everett worked a lot parking at Sundance but came home long enough to shave his moustache off (so glad).

We went bowling:



and ice skating:



 We also went to a movie, out to eat, and to an arcade called Nickel City.

Earlier in December, we decorated Christmas cookies:




Can you tell she loves sprinkles?





I also babysat for David and Stephanie while they got moved into their new house.  We went to the All-Together playground with Talmage.  It's been super fun to have our grandchildren around.







And had more than one game night:



Does this picture look posed or what?


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