Time to catch up again. This Christmas season is keeping me busy and away from my blog Hopefully I can remember the important stuff!
Friday was a busy and rainy day. (My prayers were answered!!) It started off with a guy coming to tack my carpet down. He brought his son and daughter, and while his son was finishing things up, I saw him reading the Proclamation to the Family. After he was done reading it, he said "This is very nice". I asked him if he had heard of our church and he said he had. I was scrambling to find a Spanish Book of Mormon for him, but I couldn't find that or a Family Proclamation anywhere. Something told me to just give him the framed one on the wall. At first I ignored that , thinking how silly that was. But finally I did it, and he was very grateful. Hope it makes the difference. Then when the tile guys came back to finish things up, Ethan and I were watching "The Testaments". He asked me if that was the kids version of "The Passion of the Christ". I told him it was a movie about Christ put out by our Church. When he thought I was out of the room, I caught him watching it. He knows we are Momorm, we disscussed it a little the first day he was here. I'm hoping that will plant a seed!
Friday night the YW didn't have to camp (yeah!), but we still met at the White Tanks for the Standards Night Program. The Bishopric went through a lot of work to set things up. They strung up tarps around the ramada's to shelter us from the wind and rain, and prepared a huge bonfire . They also got there early to prepare us a nice Mexican dinner. They also set up a projection screen for the program. They always go the extra mile when it comes to our Youth. When we got there we had dinner first and then the program. Erin gave a great talk, followed by Tyson Hintz (the YM president). Then they showed a short movie with a good storyline, but it was so “Utah cheese"! It had one of the actors from the Testaments in it, which was cool since I had just watched it. After the movie, we had cobbler for dessert and then headed to Becky’s where we hung out w/ the girls until midnight. I didn’t get home until 12:30 and wasn’t in bed until 1:00am! Ouch, that sure hurt me Saturday morning. I can tell I’m getting older!
Saturday was Aubrie’s night at Glendale Glitters. It’s held outside in the amphitheatre, so we were all a little worried when it poured rain all day Friday. Fortunately, Saturday was clear (but still cold) so she was able to perform. She was dressed in a Santa Dress and performed to “Santa Can You Hear Me”, by Brittany Spears (sounds like her anyway). Aubrie did a good job, but she could have memorized it a little better. I caught her looking to her friends to see what move came next. That is unlike her, b/c she usually has the dance nailed and everyone is looking toward her. She missed a few days of dance, so I’m sure that didn’t help. She pulled it off pretty well, and still did a good job and looked so cute. Afterward we let he
r pick a place to eat, and she picked Ah-So (a Japanese Steak house). She loves going to those places. She was so well mannered and VERY attentive to the cooking “show”. She ordered the steak, of course, and picked the mushrooms out of her vegetables. She had a good time. 
When we got home we put the kids down, and I worked on my lesson. I decided to talk about being financially prepared.
Sophia wasn’t feeling well Saturday, we left her home with my Mom Saturday night, and she still didn’t seem well Sunday. So Ben stayed with her and Ethan while Aubrie, Boston and I went to church. The lesson went well, but as usual, I ran out of time.
Sunday morning Aubrie was so grown up. As I was getting ready for church, she put a church video in and made breakfast. She didn’t just make any breakfast. I came downstairs to scrambled eggs and toast, and she made enough for everyone. It’s hard to believe that she is old enough to do that type of stuff. She did a great job, and for once my stomach wasn’t growling at church!:)
Monday was just the normal chaos that it normally is….I can’t wait till this year of dance is over!!! Having an activity on family night is very stressful. This time I dropped Aubrie off and Ben picked her up. That seemed to work better!
Today I got a lot done. I did laundry, finished up most of my Christmas shopping (and wrapped those gifts) and dropped goodies off to the neighbors on our street. It was a nice chance to meet the families we hadn’t official met yet. We have really great neighbors!!!
Poor Sophia is still not feeling well. She is very congested and has the worse cough. I hate when my babies are sick. 
Sophia did have some "firsts" this past week. She had a sucker (see picture), drank from a straw, and started to Army crawl (well that was last week). Once she is feeling better I’m sure we are in trouble!
