Monday, December 31, 2012

Priceless

After arriving at her house for the New Year's Eve celebration I wandered up the stairs to find where she was.  This was the image that I found when I started to her room.  Just priceless.

Saturday, December 29, 2012

BYU basketball ESA

This game was so much fun.  Kerry and I were assigned seats fairly high in the arena but Rebecca had great seats in the student section which was virtually empty because it was Christmas break.  We watched and were going to try and sneak over but they were checking tickets very carefully and we wouldn't get away with it.  At least we couldn't until half time and we just walked through and went and sat by her.  We were only about 5 rows up from the floor and when the team took time outs we could almost hear some of the coaches and players.  I could get used to seats like these!  BYU won this game easily and Tyler Haws scored 42 points breaking his own father's record by two and would have done more possibly if Coach Rose hadn't taken him out.  It was a blast to watch. 

Thursday, December 27, 2012

The Christmas Sweater

(I don't like to do posts that have me in the majority of the pictures, or any, but this is an exception)

As we gathered at our house for our traditional Christmas Dinner I was handed another gift to open.  I thought we were all done and then I realized everyone in the room was watching me.  I wondered what Kerry was up to this time!

        When I got to the tissue paper I could hardly believe what I was seeing before my eyes.
On our trip to Ireland in one of the first shops that we went into I fell in love with a sweater but because we were just beginning I decided not to buy it, there would be so many more shops to go into through the trip. And  it was a little more than I had planned to pay. At every shop after that I compared everything to that sweater.
 In Omagh we stayed with a missionary couple and she asked if there was anything that I had regretted not buying already and I told her about the sweater and she laughed and said it happened to everyone. From then I just thought about it as "my wish I had sweater."
 
                                              And there it was right before my eyes.!!!!
Literally all I could do was cry when I saw it, so I hid my face.


This is such an awful picture of me but I just looked at him and called him a "turkey" as he sat there with the biggest grin on his face.  I also know how much effort went into finding that sweater.  We couldn't remember the name of the shop or even the little community that it was in.  Kerry retraced our steps through the many pictures we took and found it. 

It's hard to see in the picture how beautiful this sweater is, but it is even more beautiful than I remember.
  To make this story even better on Christmas Eve Kerry got a phone call from Jessica telling him that the postman had left a note telling them he had tried to deliver a package and that they could pick it up the day after Christmas.  Kerry told them not to worry about it but Dave went and chased down the postman to get the package so that I could have it on Christmas. 
The Christmas Sweater is a beautiful gift and now a very sweet memory.

Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Cute Moment--Tanner

              Just watching these two react to one another, actually to see them both this still is kind of amazing.

Wednesday, December 19, 2012

"T's" first Christmas Program

Today was "T's" preschool Christmas Concert.  Preschoolers are so dang cute and try they so hard to try and figure out what is really happening.  Liv was right there with him in the learning process.
While trying to keep a straight face we couldn't help but grin as he "preformed!"

He is such a cute kid!

Friday, December 14, 2012

Let the Christmas Season Begin

We were given the opportunity to attend the First Presidency's Christmas Devotional and had enough tickets for all of the adults in our family in the Utah Area.  It turned out that Rebecca, her roommates, and some friends ended up going with us but it was a wonderful experience.
Each year the Mormon Tabernacle Choir does a Christmas Concert with special guests as a narrator and a vocal personality.  This year it was announced that Tom Brokaw was the narrator and Alfie Boe the vocalist.  I was so excited about both and hoped I would get tickets in the draw and entered.  The time to put names in was clear back in October and I had actually not given it a lot of thought until the day the tickets came, I was so excited. So just a week after the Devotional we returned to the Conference Center to attend this concert.  We had four tickets but because of conflicts our adult children could not go on a Thursday night. As our special guests we took Kerry's Mom and Caleb.  It was a beautiful evening and because the"Candy Bomber" was a highlight I am sure Caleb won't forget this night.  I had goose bumps as Alfie Boe sang "Let Him Live."  I could have listened to him for a very long time.
What a great way to begin the Christmas season.

Monday, December 10, 2012

Emerson's blessing

On the 9th of December Emerson was blessed.  It was a very quick trip but we were really happy to be there.  He was beginning to smile and respond, talk, and so cute.


 We went to the local mall and the girls played and rode the merry-go-round.  I even got to ride with Nora this time! We also went with them to their ward Christmas breakfast, which I think is a genius idea.  Clara wasn't afraid of Santa at all and unfortunately  I missed a picture with Nora and him.
 Rebecca can never get enough time with Charlie either.
 As soon as I saw this picture I fell in love with it.
It was a fun weekend and great to be with the family and it all went too fast! As we prepared to leave for the airport Nora fell apart, she said "I don't want my best friend to go."  I didn't know if I could leave after that or not.   We were grateful to be there for this sweet little boy!

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