Christmas Eve is always such a special event. The kids shared stories and their talents. Dallin played the piano, Tyler and Kaitlin read us a Christmas story, Brynlee read us a cute little poem and Tyler ended with his talent of getting and Oreo from his forehead to his mouth only using his face muscles.
Grandpa Marchant then read us the Nativity from the New Testament and the kids opened their traditional PJ’s that Grandma Marchant made for them. What a wonderful evening.
Kaitlin's Choir class did such a wonderful job at their Christmas program. The songs they sang were beautiful and they sounded like angels.
We met with my side of the family before Christmas because we all had our turns at our other families this year on Christmas day. We started off with stories of our most favorite and most memorable Christmas’. One of my favorite Christmas’ was a few years ago when Kirk was out of work and we had no money for gifts, but I did have paper and a pencil, so I drew pictures for everyone. One of my most memorable Christmas’ was when I was about 14 or so and my Grandma Evers thought that I was mature enough to get bikini underwear. I remember opening them up and I was in shock that my Grandma would not only get me bikini underwear but see through bikini underwear. I said “Grandma, GRANDMA!” We all had a great laugh. The kids memories were of when we did “Secret Santa” for some people in our ward that needed some help. After the memories we had some share Christmas stories, Kaitlin played a piece on the piano, and Uncle Sean played some Christmas songs on his guitar.
My favorite gift that I received all Christmas was that my Dad typed up his conversion story and gave it to all of us kids. Very special and I will treasure it forever.
Our Leamington Ward primary put on one of the best Christmas pageants I’ve ever been to. Quite a production. Kaitlin was an innkeeper and an angel. The kids did a great job!
Every year when we are in Cedar City on Christmas we go to Craig Jones’ house to sing him happy birthday! One of the great traditions that we look forward to as do the Jones’. They have to gather everyone at the door so that they all can enjoy this tradition. So much fun!
This Christmas was a little different for me because we weren’t in our own house for the Holidays. It was weird not putting up our Christmas Tree this year. But that’s not what matters. What matters is that we celebrate the birth or our Savior and that we share it with family.
(More about Christmas later)
At the Delta Duals tournament Tyler wrestled with a team out of Las Vegas. They didn’t have enough wrestlers, and Delta had too many to be able to wrestle. Their team made him and the other three boys that wrestled from Delta, feel very included. The coaches were awesome also.
The Las Vegas team had great team spirit. Before each wrestler would go out to wrestle, the entire team would put their hand on top of that wrestlers head and do a little cheer. The Delta boys didn’t know what to do at first but they caught on quickly and thought it was pretty neat.
Tyler started out getting pinned. His next match he went all three rounds and lost by points. His last match he pinned his match. So he improve throughout the day.
Derick made the perfect Wolverine from the move X-men. His hair was even long enough to style. We all had to dress up for our YW-YM Halloween Carnival so we got creative.
I dressed up as a biker chick with tattoos and everything. I actually couldn’t find the regular arm tattoos so I ended up getting the leg ones and cutting a hole in the crotch to put my head through and then put my arms in the leg parts. Quite the ensemble. We had a fun time.
Kaitlin has been in a little dance group here in Leamington, which has been wonderful! She had her first performance last night and did a great job! We all went on a ride with them on the Polar Express.
Kaitlin came home from school today and said “There’s a deer in the front yard”. Sure enough, there was a deer in the front yard. It’s not very often when you get to actually pet a deer. It just wandered around the yard following everyone. It even followed my Dad into the garage. I guess our neighbors across the way, their son, rescued it from being stuck in a fence. It’s a very friendly deer and has decided to stay in the neighborhood.
When Tyler decided to try wrestling this year I was excited that he was going to be able to do an individual sport. But once it started and seeing his disappointment when he loses, I didn’t like it very well. I decided that Football was easier to watch as a Mom, because everyone works as a team and not as an individual. But once he got his first pin and seeing the excitement that he can actually do it and win, wasn’t so bad. So I will have to endure however many losses to see that smile of I DID IT! He is learning so much and I appreciate the time that the coaches spend to teach these young men.
The theme for our Young Women’s Evening of Excellence was “The game of life”. With the Scripture, Joshua 1:9 Be strong and of a good courage... We based our night on a football game. We served nachos and licorice. Had pep talks, and cheers. We even got the parents to do the WAVE. The girls brought items from home that were about each of them and some items thatthey have been working on through this year. What a fun night.
Derick has been working long and hard on Delta High’s performance of Beauty & the Beast. Plenty of nights were from after school until 9:30 10:00 pm. He had a blast though and made lots of new friends.
They all did such an awesome job. Way to go!
This was Tyler’s first wrestling meet ever. I think that I was more nervous than he was. He did a great job even though he didn’t win any matches. He has some great friends that are on his team and we are looking forward to many more tournaments.
In between getting Derick to and from play practice everyday, I have a lot going on. Lori and I have our first Scraps-N-Pieces home show tomorrow in Elk Ridge. We are so excited about it but also anxious to see how it goes. I hope very well! Then on Saturday we are doing a craft fair in Delta. So we are busy getting labels and pricing and everything else ready for both shows. This is a big step for both of us but we are hoping for the best.
