This morning in Sacrament Meeting at church, the kids were sitting so quietly and reverently. We were listening to the speakers when all of a sudden Tanner stood up on the bench and in his most beautiful (and loudest! ) singing voice.... he started.... "FROOOOSSTYYYY THE SNOOWW.... MAAANNNNNNN!!!! WAS A JOLLLY SOUL THEY SAYYYYYYY!!!!........." Okay, considering the fact that he is still two, it was actually awfully cute..... (in sort of an embarrassing kind of way... ha ha) Everyone was laughing..... !! He realllllly loves snowmen right now!! This is one of the ones we have built in the last few days with all of the snow.
This year has gone by so fast.... I have meant to keep much more updated than I have, but I guess that will be my goal for the new year. For now, I will fill in some tidbits and pieces of news over the last few months. Tanner just finished his last "playgroup" with the early childhood intervention center. It has been wonderful. We have gone each Monday and Wednesday morning, and they sing songs, play games, have snacks and do an art project. Tanner has loved it, and will miss his playgroup, although he is really looking forward to preschool in January.... he will even get to ride the big yellow school bus. He is SOOOO excited about that!!
Bretty sang a solo for the school Christmas program with the students and parents. He did a great job!!! He sang the song from polar express "When Christmas Comes to Town" while Sami's class did sign language to it. He made all of the teachers cry!! It was so cute!!
Sami also got to dance in the Christmas program at her school. Her dance program performed selections from the nutcracker and Sami was in the Chinese Dance. She had a lot of fun, and is loving dance!!
We had a great visit from Santa Claus, as well as a surprise visit from him on Christmas Eve, reminding the kids of what Christmas is all about, and thanking them for being "big helpers" for Santa this year. (We did Christmas for a family in need, and because of it being a bit of a last minute frenzy....... they did not even have a tree a few days before Christmas..... we ended up putting together their Christmas in the middle of the living room, which shed some light for the older ones on what Santa is really about)...... in some ways they LOVED helping and were so good with it, and so thoughtful and kind, but there was also some disappointment with Sami especially wondering whether she would still be able to anticipate the sound of reindeer and bells flying through the night sky on Christmas Eve. So when Santa showed up on the doorstep on Christmas Eve.... it was so magical for them, and something they will always remember.
.In September Bethany came to live with us, and it has been a lot of fun to have her here. The kids love her, and its been fun to show her a bit of the things around here (snow, mountains, corn that is over 10 feet tall, wild sunflowers, and daisies, deer, and more.!!)
