There's always plenty to do to celebrate the holidays. We started out the season with Victoria's orchestra concert. Those kids are really good! She's in the intermediate group now and was chosen to participate in the Cluster Concert in January. I'm so happy she enjoys the violin! Even if it does mean I have to wake up earlier to see her out the door each day...
We also enjoyed her choir concert the next week. She's wearing her choir scarf in this orchestra picture. There is a clip with a song from each at the top. (I wasn't able to move them around to where they should be, darn, stubborn computer...)
She's in the back right in front of the bases.
One of the perks for her is that she can see her friends from other schools who also participate in orchestra because they all meet at the high school and then are bussed to their various middle schools. This is her good friend Sabrina.
We have very good friends from the ward that Karissa fell in love with when Sister Nelson was her teacher a few years ago. Karissa calls them "Mother and Father". Their boys are a lot older, so we've never actually had them over, but finally decided the time was right.
They all had to dog pile them, even the cat!
Erik was so cute with their oldest son, Isaac, and his girlfriend Morgan.
Last week we got dumped on with snow and even got a snow day out of it. Now it has all pretty much melted because of some rainy days in the 40s...
On our lovely snow day, with the sun shining, the kids made snow flakes and Christmas presents.
And we went sledding with many friends. Here's Ella and Karissa.
Erik sledding
Austin trying out "snowboarding".
Victoria, Hannah, and Emma
Audrey, Edelweiss, and Karissa
Austin and Owen
Erik and Anna
Our snowman with photo bomb Austin.
The Summit had a gingerbread day on Saturday. The kids got to decorate a paper gingerbread man and then a cookie. They also played some candy cane games, followed by swimming!
They made another snowman before it melted.
We also got to go to the library and see a real live reindeer. It was Sugar Plum, one of Santa's back-ups, and one of his elves. There was little train ride too, but no pictures of that event because my phone is being problematic...
Fun times! Have a wonderfully Merry Christmas, Val!
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