It's snowing in my picture!  I'm not sure how blogger is doing that but it is kinda fun . . . We've had snow and cold all week again.  It got a little bit warmer though so on Saturday Sarah and Mariah and Cali and Cheyenne and Beth and Ben made a snowman!  Or, more accurately, a snowgirl since she does have on a tutu and wings -- a snow fairy?  She's adorable and even more cool with falling snow.


So!  It was a crazy, busy week.  Megan had two basketball games.  I had two basketball practices with Cheyenne and Calianne.  Mariah and Kevin had a basketball game and three practices.  On Tuesday, for Young Women, we took the train to Salt Lake City to see the lights on temple square.  We left at 4:00 and didn't get back until 9:30!  It was fun, though!  Savannah, Sarah, and Mariah came.  Meg had basketball.

Wednesday night we got to see Bethany in her dance recital!  She did a dance to "Up on the Housetop."  It was truly adorable and she looked so beautiful!  She is a good little dancer and she sure loves to perform!

Later that night we got to see Megan in her fiddle recital!  It was fun.  Meg got to play in a barn with a fire in the background and a Christmas tree to her side.  It was a beautiful setting while we listened to her beautiful music.  She played fiddle 1 and her teacher played fiddle 2.  She sounded really great!

On Thursday we had two more programs to attend!  First was the kindergarten program.  Bethany was so beautiful -- again!  And she so, so loved performing.  She sang each of the songs with gusto and danced her dances daintily!  She was great fun to watch and the program was just delightful.

We hurried from the elementary school watching our kindergartener over to the high school to watch our senior.  How bittersweet!!  Savannah sang in her choir's Christmas concert and it was fabulous as always.  I so love hearing her sing! --and watching her.  She loves to perform, too, and always has since she was a kindergartener!

Mariah loves to watch Savannah sing, too!

Friday Kevin and I dropped off the little ones at Grandma and Grandpa's and escaped for a little weekend getaway for Kevin's birthday!  We had a package deal that included a room in the lodge and a half day of snowmobiling at Daniel's Summit outside of Heber which is only about an hour away.  I've never been snowmobiling before so it was a great adventure for me.  Kevin did a lot of snowmobiling in his youth so it brought back lots of good memories for him.  It was very beautiful!  It was like being in a Christmas card or a John Denver song!  :)  It was so fun!

The next day we drove back into Provo and had Kevin's mom and Jim and all our kids meet us at the Brick Oven for lunch.  Yum!  Afterwards, we went for our traditional, annual, family bowling game.   The older girls are getting pretty good!  Ben and Beth still like the arcade best of all!  It was a fun birthday for Kevin B!


Sunday was Megan's birthday!  We gave her some of her presents Saturday evening so she could wear them to church on Sunday.  She looked awesome!  That night we went over to Gazdik's for our family party.  Grandma and Grandpa did a great decorating job as always and made Meg a delicious fried chicken dinner!  Then she opened more presents and we had cheese cake.  We forgot about candles and so we had to make do with what we had!  We're so glad we have Megan in our family and that she was born safely into our home 15 years ago.  She is so great!  What would we do without her?