12/1 to 12/10:
Beginning of December we had tithing settlement with the bishop, kids were very honest in telling the bishop if they were a full tithe payer or not. Very exciting on Thursday the 8th Tyrell received his mission call in the mail. I was still working when he received it, we had to make arrangements for family and friends to come over at 7pm. I was so distracted by Tyrell's mission call that I messed up on a customers itinerary! Since it was short notice for people to come over we just had a small group, Mum, Jody, Jared, Camila & kids, Rachel-Tyrells friend. We went live on facebook, which was funny! Tyrell was calm his voice shaky a little, and then he announced he was going to 'NORTH CAROLINA'! I was a little bummed, thinking whaaat? what happened to New Zealand or some other overseas country. But we're relieved Tyrell has finally got his call and will be leaving on March 8th. On the 10th my sister Alison got married to her beau Ross Smith, I wanted to go but couldn't many reasons, cost too much, it was too close to Christmas and I had work..... The wedding looked beautiful and I was bummed I didn't get to be with everyone, I was the only sibling not there.We had our ward Christmas party on Saturday the 10th and we love going to this, it's tradition, we eat our yummy breakfast and then have photos with Santa.
12/11 to 12/17:
On Sunday the 11th we went to Jody's for Jonah's 10th Birthday, we had pizza and good times with family. Jay and I have been shopping and preparing for Christmas, will be ordering mainly through amazon for the kids gifts. And I we have Jody's family this year, got them a gift card to Megaplex and then got small gifts for the kids and money for Josh.
12/18 to 12/24:
Went and watched Wiramina sing in her School Choir at Taylorsville High School for their annual Christmas Concert. That's what our Family Home Evening was. Did our last minute Christmas shopping this week.
On the 22nd I was on my bed watching tv and Jay was at he desk on his computer, the girls came in they were both crying and Erana was saying that she cut her lip, and I said how'd you cut your lip and apparently Leila and Erana had been in the bathroom and had shaven the hair on their upper lip because they thought they had mustache's. I was upset and told them off and said something like its gonna grow back long and thick.... but when they left Jay and I thought it was funny and we were cracking up, I took photos and messaged them to my sister and Grandma Barbara!
Christmas Eve we had dinner at home I was busy this Christmas eve that's because I was making Lobster bisque for dinner and I messed up by adding tomato paste to it and paprika... Long story short I had to make it again. Dinner was good, we decided we liked shrimp soup instead of Lobster bisque! and we had crab wontons too. Ead read our Christmas story from the scriptures. And the girls made sugar cookie men, because no one had ginger bread cookie dough, but that's ok they still had fun making santa's cookies.
12/25 to 12/31:
Jay woke me up in bed saying he heard kids up, so we got up to film. When I came down the time was about 7am and the kids were already dressed for church. We had the kids start on their stockings first and then their gifts, they didn't get alot this year just expensive stuff. Tyrell loved his new Piano and Mina her base guitar, and Jaxon his drone, Leila loved her stitch pillow from Mina and Erana put her red cowboy boots on to wear to church, they are just her! Our church starts at 9am this year, we had a speaker this year, it was kinda boring because we were missing Bro. Buys's Christmas program, a tradition that is sorely missed.
We came home and enjoyed our gifts and I prepared our food to take to Scotts. At Scott's got there early and I carved up my pork roast and it was sooo yummy that whoever was there early got all the good juicy, crackle and bits! We ate good food and we traded gifts down stairs, after we watched a video that Scott made about our families to music. We had Jody's family this year, got them a megaplex gift card and individual small gifts for the kids, tip-choco from NZ and sparkly for the newly married couples.
December 29th Jay and I went to Hannah and Bubba's sealing at the Draper temple, there were alot of people and we had to sit two to a seat! We had a good seat though close to the bride and groom, front row. Then we, mum, Scott, Heather, Jared and Camila went and ate lunch at Chuckarama.
New Years eve was at Scott's again we had a lot of yummy food again and then played a few games and then we had visitors from NZ show up, one of Scott's childhood friend and his family. Reuben and Dwayne Harris Whanau.
