Tonight in twenty degree weather we loaded up our youth on two wagons and went around the neighborhood Christmas Caroling It was lots of fun and even with the improper dress for weather the youth had fun...

I'm not kidding they showed up in shorts sneakers no gloves, some no coats..

Once we got going they only lasted a hour but then it was to our house for hot chocolate and doughnuts, the biggest reason for the turnout I think.

No kidding it was wall to wall people, good thing the fire chief wasn't here I'm sure we were not to code.

As near as we could guess we had at least 55 people here, but they had fun and really didn't mess up the house and only a couple tiny spills .

The new Bishop put a wood stove on his trailor with the tractor, this made it harder to get the girls to leave and sing.

But all survived , a few soaked feet., later and a cup of hot cocoa and all was well with the world. And a successful activity for the beehive combined.

A QUILTING DIVA CHRISTMAS

Karen AND Dorothy WERE LEAVING AGAIN SO WE HAD OUR PARTY EARLY UNFORTUNATLY Dorothy HAD BRONCIDUS AND JUDY R HAD FLU SO IT WAS ONLY FOUR BUT WE HAD FUN AND OPENED OUR GIFTS.

WE WERE EVEN SERVED A CHRISTMAS GOOSE FOR DESERT YUMMALICIOUS
OUR GIFTS WERE LOVELY AND MADE WITH LOVE .

i WAS ABLE TO GET THE UPSTAIRS DECORATED BY THE PARTY. I AM STILL BEHIND BUT GETTING THERE.

Tenia Dansie and her dad Dancing at her wedding ... it's hard to believe that Tenia was in my Miamaid class when we first moved her to Cedar. How fast time goes by

Hello I'll be your waitress... Chartiese, and Shana sisters

Mother of the bride...

Vacations over and we're headed back to UTah

Fun times but it is time to head home so Monday morning we took Alex to school , than it was back to say goodbye to everyone else and it was time to drive back home . So who knew that cotton was a big crop in Texas???

They bail it up in these huge bails...

no it isn't snow that is cotton pretty cool huh

These are the bails from the road as we headed home

HAPP HAPPY BIRTHDAY RORY

SO TODAY OUR MISS AURORA TURNS FIVE . SHE IS AN AWESOME BIG SISTER AND JUST A REAL CUTIE

HAVE A WONDERFUL DAY!!!

Fort Concho

Saturday we took Alex and we went to check out the fort This was in the museum Alex with the ole gray mare

We couldn't get into all the buildings but Alex really liked peeking in

the windows to see what was inside

there was this really cool tree that begged us to take its picture

This was the one room school house

The telegraph office that an ole soldier let us in to check out

Then we went to the infirmary and Alex thought the

glass eyes were interesting

This is a look at the parade field

Black Friday

I was up at 4 am to get in some of the craziness of black Friday with Crystal. She had specific items in mind and she had to work at noon so off we went the good news is we were home about 8:30am So we got in naps she and Pat had to work and Ron and I took Ales out. We had planned to go to the children's museum we'd read about but when looking for it couldn't find it . We inquired and found out that it has been closed for years but is still advertised even in phone book.
Option two was to spend some time at the park... there was some swinging Some sliding...

And a lot of running around...

And Alex really liked this ride...

We had a fun time and then we went home to hang out with tom till the busy worker bees got home.