Temple Square

Tonight we decided to bundle up and go to Temple Square to see the lights! It was beautiful! It's really amazing how many lights they can get on one tree! (And my husband thinks I use too many!) Anyway, the kids loved seeing the nativity scene and the Christus statue. It was really nice!

Lovable Lyrics

Annie loves to sing! In Nursery, she learned the song "Kindness Begins with Me." This is how she sings it: "I want to be kind to everyone, for that is right you see. So I say to myself, 'Remember this: It kind of begins with me!'" We had to explain that it says "kindness" begins with me! And then she said, "What's kindness?" It was all very cute! She had been singing it for a week and a half before she got it down right! :)
Then, this morning, she was singing "Frosty the Snowman" as follows: "Frosty the Snowman, was a jolly, happy soul--with a corncob pipe and a button nose and two eyes made out of COLD!"
Sam: "Annie, you said, 'cold.'"
Annie: "I KNOW--two EYES made out of COLD!"
Sam: "It's COAL!"
Annie: "That's what I said, 'COLD'."
Me: "Annie, it says, 'COAL'--you can burn coal in a fire."
Annie: "Oh."
I'm not sure she really understands that one yet!

A GREEN December?!

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!!! You know, this time of year, I think it should be against the rules for it to POUR RAIN. All day. I got sooo excited when it turned to snow this morning...only to have it turn back to rain and melt everything!

Saturday afternoon, we went to our annual Candy House Extravaganza! My mom had, as usual, made 33 houses and invited the whole family! The kids had a great time making their houses! (They've been having a great time eating them too! Frank & I were commenting that next year we'll have to make it a priority to put the tastiest candies on our houses... neither of us used anything really yummy!)

Winter Wonderland