Holiday Happenings

After our 6-hour ride home from Las Vegas, we had to get spiffed up and head up to Temple Square for Morgan's choir performance. She is an alto in The Riverton Children's Choir. They had their first performance in Assembly Hall, which is a beautiful little church that sits on the grounds of the LDS Temple in Salt Lake City. The lights in the Square made a nice backdrop for our smiling girl.

We had a good time listening to Christmas music, eating cookies, and decorating our tree. It is always fun to look at all the ornaments that the kids have made and received over the years. They like to make fun of each other's preschool "works of art" and how "funny" they look in their "Baby's 1st Christmas" ornaments.

Sandy bought kits to make root beer and birch beer. Marcus and Mallory really enjoyed this process. Morgan really enjoyed drinking the finished product. They all thought that is was kind of gross that the "little yeast animals" were a necessary part of the product.


Morgan and I went to the Gateway Children's Museum on her first off-track day. Tori's (Morgan's friend pictured with her below) mom(Liz) organized the trip for moms and their off-track kids. It was really cool! The girls especially enjoyed making their own news broadcast, sending message flags back and forth on cables across the building , and playing in the water tables.


Finally, last night we attended the middle school's Winter Concert. Mallory plays the clarinet in the beginning band. The jazz band, percussion ensemble, concert band, and symphonic band also played. Everyone enjoyed the festive performance.