Abracadabra!

After an embarrassingly long time I was able to present Jayson with a hideous "magic" top hat made somewhat to his specifications. He of course loved it and to thank me put on a magnificent magic show. He made many things disappear (by very quickly throwing them over his shoulder) and as an encore pulled a rabbit (aka stuffed dog) out of the very hat I made (after covering it with a blanket and making me look away for oh..no more than 3 minutes or so.)

Have it and Eat it

I've been taking a cake class and I wish I would have remembered to take more pictures of them each week, but here are just a few. I only have one more week left and have had so much fun learning with the other women in the class that I'm trying to talk them into taking a hip hop class with me next. Ha ha! I have made a great friendship with Amy, a teacher in the class who is hoping for a proposal from her boyfriend any day now...we're most likely signing up for a spinning class in February. Don't expect any pictures of that though.

I volunteered at Jayson's class party and a great time was had by all...we made gingerbread houses, sang Christmas songs, and were visited by who I thought was a rather scary Santa. At the end of the day I got to read aloud to the kids "Twas the Night Before Christmas".

Santa was a bit disappointing to me but later when I asked Jayson if he was the real Santa he did not hesitate to answer in the affirmative. After some lame questions Santa told Jayson merry Christmas and Jayson said "oh, thank you. Merry Christmas. I mean...Feliz Navidad! Feliz Navidad Santa." Our brilliant bilingual child. Unfortunately, due to hair in the ears (or so he told one of the other children) Santa didn't hear him say it.

This lesson in December marked our last Sunday teaching the CTR A 6 year olds. They were a fun class and we'll miss them. We've been released from our calling and (gulp) I will start teaching the beehives on the 2nd week of January.

Jay and I celebrated our seventh year of marriage, or "honeyversary" as we like to call it. Staying true to the traditional anniversary gift list, I bought Jay some brass collar stays. Jay was so thoughtful to replace my lost diamond (it fell out of my ring 6 or so months ago after two prongs broke off somewhere in Alexandria) with a beautiful new diamond ring. He wouldn't have given it to me any other way...

Some days are just so fun that we MUST break out the camera and capture all of our boys' cuteness!

There's a feature on our camera that automatically takes a series of three pictures in a row and Jayson and I love it! We've been working on getting some good action shots.

Christmas Round One

On the Sunday before Crystal left for New Zealand (lucky!) we celebrated Aidan's birthday and had an early Christmas dinner. It was fun and Auntie Crystal maintains her position as favorite auntie (no one can compete with R2D2 action figures and a mini-trampoline!) After the boys went to bed we watched the First Presidency Christmas message.

Our Number 2 is 2

Snow for the Snows

Early in December we had our first snow. Jay and the boys went out and immediately built the only snowman on our street and possibly the only snowman in Springfield. After the snow melted shortly after, our snow(wo)man stuck around for days after. Aidan learned an important lesson that day as well:we don't just force him to wear winter hats and mittens to torture him as he once thought. They work really well at keeping the cold out. After stripping everyone down to their scivvies, I made them hot chocolate and soup for lunch. It was a perfect snow day!