Once upon a December

It seems like I blink my eyes and a new month is upon us. December came quite quickly and that's o.k. because it is such a wonderful time of year.  Cynjyn started off our month with her dance recital.  She is the only one in her class and every class did a Christmas dance, so she had a solo and went last.  She was a little worried about going out in front of everyone alone, but she did an amazing job and has such talent.  Like last year, it was in her teacher's garage and we all just put up camp chairs in her driveway and watched.

She got her annual birthday dolls from Grandma for her bday.  She is giving her a collection of dolls from around the world and she was beyond thrilled to get her favorite...BRITISH!!

I had my annual recital a little late this year because the singles ward had their ward Christmas party on the 9th, so I ended up having mine on the 16th.  Garry and I prepped all day the day before making goodies for it.  We had everything packed and organized and ready to go Sunday night!

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Taz designed his letterman's jacket online and ordered it in November.  It arrived the 16th, but we needed to find someone to sew his patches from school on.  So Garry quickly handstitched his letters on so he could wear it to school one day before break.  They stitching didn't last and the letter's were coming off, so he only wore it one day that week, but he loved it and that was his major present so he was convinced he wasn't getting anything else for Christmas.

On Instagram a friend of our posted that you could stand an egg on end on Winter Solstice, so we all decided that we needed to try it out.  Talon was the first to get it to work.  We spent a good half hour doing it and Garry had gone out with the elders and brought them to our house for dinner, so we had the three of them trying and they all got it to work too!  It was cheap intertainment for the evening!

Tanner arrived in town on the 19th.  I was able to take the day off  and pick him up.  We have played games almost everyday since he arrived.  We got a new one from Rob and Jodi that I'd requested and we played that a lot.  Agricola, it's pretty fun!

On Friday, we tracked down a lady in our ward who makes costumes for shows on the strip and has a warehouse with a bunch of heavy duty machines that she uses and asked her if she'd sew on Taz's patches.   She works at night, so Tanner went with me to her warehouse,  She wasn't there and we waited about 20 min and then came home and then she texted that she was on her way, so he went with me later and it took her about an hour to sew on his three patches.  I was so glad I didn't attempt it and it was so nice of her to do it for us.  Thanks for keeping me company Tanner!

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Random pix:  Taz playing with a slinky he got at the YM/YW gift exchange.

Tanner walked in the door from the airport, put his stuff in his room and went right to the piano!  He loves it so and I'm sure he missed it.  This next semester he is taking a piano class so he'll get some playing in.

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Taz is watching more and more dogs.  He watched Jack, the Oh's dog for the second time while they went to Disneyland the 17-21.  Jack is his favorite dog!

We had a busy week the week of my recital.  We started off with that on Monday, then I had to play the piano at  my school's choir recital at 6:00.  Taz went with me to support me and then we ran to Cynjyn's jazz band and advanced band concert at 7:30.  She really did a great job in jazz band and rocked that base line!  Wednesday I had book club and Thursday was Taz's band concert.  It was a very musical week.

Cynjyn curled my hair for church Sunday, I love having a personal hairdresser!  The Primary kids sang two songs with the choir for our ward Christmas program on the 22, so I had to look good from the back!

Cynjyn was so happy Tanner's is home and they bonded on the floor??

Taz is also watching Sparky this week from the 24th till Sunday.  That used to be Tanner's job so he is rebonding with Sparky.

Someone gave us a White Chirstmas.  We blame Taz's friends!

Garry and I reserved Game of Thrones season 1 from the library and watched some episodes while we wrapped presents this year.  We got them mostly done in one afternoon!

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Sunday night at midnight, a few of us gals went to the GVR cafe to try their cheap breakfast.  We'd talked about it at book club and Andrea wanted to go that night, but it was already 1 am and most of us had to work the next day.  So, Jen texted us Sunday evening and got a little group together to try it out.  Most of us had the $3.99 breakfast which was two eggs, two bacon, two toast and hashbrowns.  It was pretty good and we ate and visited until 2am!

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The Witt's delivered us some rootbeer deer on Christmas Eve and they were so cute.  Tanner chose the one that had blue glassed just like the glasses he was wearing and claimed it his twin deer!

And that's December!