Weekend Updates

Sunday Dec 13: Went to our new ward at 1 PM. I don't think I've ever been greeted by so many people at once, other than my wedding :) I'm sad to leave our ward, but I know we will really enjoy our current ward. Ben and I got to sit in Sunday School together. Our Sunday School teacher was the best I've been to in a long time. So impressed. He talked about God's plan vs. the World's lack of plan. He related his own experience of being one of the executives in his own company, but has been unable to pay himself for 11 months!! They have a bunch of kids that he is responsible to provide for, but he remained so positive and humble. What an example in these difficult economic times. I think of the many times I get frustrated with little things (like losing my keys) when I really need to have that positive and humble attitude. Nothing is really THAT bad. I have my family. I am able to have a stronger relationship with Jesus Christ because of the scriptures available to us.

Sunday Night: We went to a Farnsworth Christmas Dinner at my Aunt Yvonnes. They have this gorgeous home in Alpine and she had her house beautifully decorated with PLENTY of food. It was so tasty. Plus, we love seeing all my cousins and laughing with them. You never stop laughing with the Farnsworths.

Saturday Dec 12: Made Ginger Bread Houses at Joe and Ashley Mills' house. Rich and Rachel were there too. We all made awesome houses. Rich and Rachel probably won though. Joe and Ashley made me laugh throughout the whole night though with their house. They had some awesome ideas..like putting a Y, but they just turned out a little different :) What none of us expected was to hold our houses together for like an hour so that they would stay together. Ours still didn't stay together, so I superglued it when we got home. Joe and Ashley didn't care enough so theirs slowly collapsed. Ha. They tried to save it with loads of frosting, but that only made it heavier and therefore it fell faster with all of the frosting dripping off. I still laugh thinking about it. I wish I had a picture. I brought my camera but forgot the SD card!

Friday Dec 11: Hung out with the Kitchen's! When I saw them come to the door I thought, "I don't think I've seen Brock in forever." Brock is taking finals currently and needs to get awesome grades for medical school. He's a smarty pants, so he'll do great. We ate loads of pistachios (won at Ben's Work Christmas party, I guessed the EXACT number, 472 ... but guessed way off on the others.) Ben and Brock of course created a game out of the pistachios. Basketball with the shells into the bowl. They could entertain us for hours with hardly anything available to them. Everything is a competition :)

Today: Still getting the house fixed up from the plumbing problem. Finally, I think this is the last day. So excited for Christmas!! We have pretty much all our shopping done. Now just the wrapping. I love having wrapped presents under the tree.. well now that we have one. Oh I Love Christmas!!