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| Visiting Santa Claus at our annual Primary Christmas Activity |
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| The Christmas lights at Temple Square in Salt Lake. We went to Utah just before Christmas. |
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| Eating lunch with Avery's sister Autumn (in the grey jacket and glasses) before she leaves for missionary service in Nicaragua. |
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| Christmas Festivities: Decorating the tree. Exchanging gifts with siblings. Every year we draw names and each child gets a gift for their "secret sibling." |
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This year we made handmade ornaments to take to our music teachers, friends, and Sunday school teachers. Avery was very creative and focused for hours on making an ornament. |
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This year we improved on our Gingerbread House making. Instead of everyone making their own house we made a pueblo inspired gingerbread house in European style. Each of us decorated the front of a house and we fastened them to a cardboard tower. It took up less space than our usual gingerbread city and was beautiful. We did have to tie the houses together with string so they didn't fall off. Next year we will figure out how to keep them from falling off and still be edible. |
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| Madeline helping Avery with the frosting. |
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| Nativity Pageant 2015 ~ This is year we had four wise men to keep everyone happy. Avery was a wonderful wiseman. She says next year she wants to be the angel or a shepherd. |
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| Christmas Morning. The pajama picture before we see the Christmas tree. In the back are Rachel and her husband Dustan, and Aurora and her husband (in matching pjs). This year Autumn is serving the people of Nicaragua. Brianna's family comes over later since they have little ones of their own. |
