Christmas has come and gone and we did quite a few things leading up to it to help get us in the mood! We went and saw Santa early on to avoid crowds and crazies! We had plans to go see the lights downtown but that didn't happen! Dave and I were able to go to the Music and the Spoken word the Mormon Tabernacle Choir with David Archuleta! I loved it!
We also read a lot of christmas books! My plan was to wrap them up and put them under the tree, advent style and read one every night but that didn't happen! After we read "how the grinch stole christmas" that was pretty much Sarah's favorite having one of these helped a little!
(a plush Mr. Grinch)
We decorated "ginger bread" houses, I hot glued graham crackers together and ta-da! Sarah lasted for only a little while before it was her nap time, So I finished hers and Dallin decided that there needed to be a lot of "snow"!
Dallin had his Christmas program at school, me being the Mother of the Year I didn't bring my camera or anything! I actually didn't have my camera around for most of the Holiday season this year.... shame on me. I'm working on getting a copy of the Program, I'll keep you posted! The one picture Dave took with his phone pretty much sums up the program, he laid on the floor for most of the program, or his teacher Jenny was holding him down, until he announced "I have to go potty" which brought the entire program to a scream hault! And was also the funniest thing ever! They were all so cute and did a great job! Dallin didn't really sing but at least he stayed in the front of the room without me! He is making progress!
We Decorated our Christmas tree!
On one of our "we have to stay inside because of the weather..... mom is going crazy" I pulled out the boxes I got from my moms work and we made houses, complete with christmas lights, a fireplace, and of course a satellite dish to watch TV.
And last but not least........... drum roll please! Dallin fractured his arm! Just in time for christmas! his has a buckle fracture on the dorsal radial.... blah blah blah medical junk he has a cast now! Poor guy seemed fine, but kept asking for an ice pack so we went in to the Dr and sure enough a fracture. You can't see it very well on my picture but it ends where the cursor is pointing so about 3/4 the way across the bone!
He was such a trooper and when the Dr was pushing on it and moving it, asking him if it hurt, he was the strong silent type. Then when I asked him if it hurt, his reply was a whispered "yeah!" He had a hard time choosing wither to have a green cast or an orange cast. Such hard choices when you are 3!
All in all we had a wonderful Christmas and tried really hard to help Dallin and Sarah remember that we are celabrating the birth of Christ. Translated into toddler= Jesus' Birthday which equals presents. We hope you all had a very Merry Christmas and we wish you the best for the New Year!
