After three years, our family was finally all together! I was reminded how blessed I am to have a wonderful family. We enjoyed our time together, full of fun, service, cooking, movies, skiing, tree cutting, gifts, chocolate, ringing the salvation army bell, singing at the nursing home, staying up late and sleeping in!I thought about Christ pretty frequently and how when we have Christ in our lives, it brings so much joy and love. I love celebrating his birth and being reminded of his great life and how I need to be more like him. What a great mother Mary must have been to raise the son of God. I hope I can be better this year and continually feel closer to my Savior.
Merry Christmas!!
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| Our great talent of making Christmas wreaths |
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| playing Christmas music in front of City Market |
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| Not only do we make Christmas wreaths, Shawn and I rang the Salvation Army bell and played the slide whistles! |
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| People would sing along as they were walking in the store. |
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| Shawn made Meysa letters of her name out of wood to put in her room |
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| Christmas Morning!! |
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| Christmas morning at the Nursing Home. The lady in the front right, kept motioning for Shawn to come to her. When he would sit by her, she would pull his santa hat over his face and pinch his nose. When she would pinch his nose, he would honk and the ladies next to her just thought that was the funniest thing. It was fun going, but hard seeing so many people with disabilities and having no one with them for Christmas. It was just another day for them. Hopefully we made it a better Christmas for them. |
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| playing at the nursing home |
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| two wanna be mountain men :) |
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| Shawn inherited my Great Grandpa Kas's cowboy hat for Christmas. My dad says he wears it just right. |
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| Decorating for Christmas, turned into playing Santa and the reindeer :) |
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| Showing off our talent :) |
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| Meysa made us the cutest pillows |
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| Meysa and I made Shawn a nativity set for Christmas |
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| Cream and eggs on toast....yummy...what a good Christmas morning breakfast |
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| The three chefs |
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| Cross country skiing on the Grand Mesa. Rydge and Shawn being crazy..I was worried they were going to fall off the cliff |
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| Throughout the Christmas break, Shawn and Rydge were having a battle of who is the "Alpha Male" of the family. Looks like Shawn gained a point here. |
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| Shawn's family at Temple Square during Thanksgiving time |
