The past few weeks have been pretty busy here at our home. With Christmas just a couple of weeks away I really felt the pressure to get everything done so I was over half finished with my Christmas shopping...phew...but had many more things to do!
We spent about half a day trying to figure out what to do for a family picture for our Christmas card. This was not the final picture but this was where we started off in the morning on a damp/rainy day. My hair was nice and straight, Cody was all smiles, clean, and Daniel was not upset, and bribing Cody that if he could sit still and smile for one more picture (which was actually like 10 more pictures) he could have a sucker.
Cody had fun taking pictures with me but when it came to a family picture...forget it! As you can see in the picture my hair started getting wavy from the damp air quickly
The Young Women's President at church was out of town for a couple of weeks and it was my month to conduct in Young Women's and teach the first Sunday of the month. I made some ornaments that I used for my lesson about doing good works this month.
Cody and I also made some other ornaments. Cody had fun painting his ornament but eventually dropped, and broke it.
We had a fun Santa visit at our ward Christmas party. Cody was pretty excited this year to tell Santa what he wanted. We are having a Wall-E obsession this year.
Daniel got the lights put up outside quickly and we had to find a tree, decorate and of course Cody had to put the star on top of the tree before any decor was put on.
We made our annual goodies this year. This is Cody frosting a sugar cookie and about to lick the frosting off his hand. We made about 4-5 dozen this year, along with fudge, chocolate dipped pretzels, and Daniel made his famous homemade salsa to distribute. 
One of my larger projects though this year was to make our 12 young women fleece, knot tied blankets. I did about one a day, some days two. I didn't get any pictures of me actually cutting and tying the blankets, but all of the work was worth it when the girls opened them up and really liked them.
Other than that, it was just the final shopping details I had to finish for the family and try to stay dry (from the rain) while doing that. It was great getting people's Christmas cards in the mail also! We can officially say that we are ready for Christmas. How about you???We wish everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!
