December or christmas time is one of my all time favorite times of the year. I just love the feelings, the music, the kindness, the laughter, the family time... and usually the snow. it's a total bummer that we won't be getting snow this year especially since Utah has SO MUCH snow. It will be very weird to not be home with my family. but it will be fun to try and create fun new memories. We got a santa suit and took some cute pictures of the boys with Braydon playing santa. I love the book I believe in santa because it talks about how santa has all the special attributes the savior has. He is kind, wears a red robe, brings gifts. Jesus got us the greatest gift of all. His atoning sacrifice. I love that this time of year we get to think more about his birth and his life. I wish we could keep this feeling going all year round in the world. We got to have breakfast with santa at Sawyers school. That was really fun, we went to light up the city with me and the boys and their friend julian. We went to cabalas to get our picture with santa. The boys paid tithing for the first time. they were very excited about that. Benson and i also got to go to sawyers school and make ginger bread houses with him and his class. Sawyer was adorable and showing benson off and benson loved that. They had a great time making their house together. We also made a huge village at home for family night. December has been crazy... we got to play in the sprinklers one Saturday because it was 80 degrees. the boys had the time of their life. we also had Korbin and allie play one day because their mom had to go to utah to help their grandma after her car accident... We got to go to this cool hayride. it was a hayride through the life of christ. it was the perfect thing to do for christmas. We got a fire pit and have enjoyed a bunch of nights together in our back yard. it's been fun just being away from distractions of movie, tv electronics and just talk to each other. and can you believe the boys were wearing shorts in the middle of december? The boys really wanted to make christmas cookies, decorate them and then go deliver them. When we delivered them they wanted go caroling. we sounded amazing!! it was really fun though. 

 A lot of really awesome things happened in November. We got to have a really fun and huge bon fire at our bishops house with a bunch of people in our ward. Another really awesome thing happened we got to have Elder Bednar come speak in our sacrament meeting. It was so fun for our kids because his son was our bishop in Kentucky. They were so excited to tell him and shake his hand. His talk was really amazing. He spoke about doing the small simple things and how important the sacrament is. He was so sweet with the boys and talk to braydon about being a dentist. it was really neat. Braydon took off another afternoon so he could go to Bensons thanksgiving feast at school. It made him so happy having his daddy there. I had the rare moment of sawyer falling asleep in my arms during sacrament. it was such a tender moment for me. We put up our tree! that was so fun and we loved that we put it up before thanksgiving... maybe braydon wasn't as happy as the boys and i were. Benson's little friend bennet moved and it made benson so sad. we had to get a picture of these two little buddies. They were so cute together. For thanksgiving we got to host our friends the evertsens. Katie has been my friend since jr high. It was a lot of fun and the kids were so cute with their daughter emma! Sawyer and benson got the opportunity to make hygiene kits for the needy families in our community. they were so excited that they could ask their dad to get a bunch of tooth paste and tooth brushes for the people in need. Our elf cotton showed up. and again this year he brings a note for something nice to do for someone else and a lesson about Jesus.