One part of yesterday was our ward Christmas party where Winry got to meet Santa for the very first time! She was very... concerned. She didn't cry though, so she did better than Brooke did her first time. Brooke was there with her though, so that probably helped. Brooke's Christmas list for Santa was "a tea party, and a pink reindeer!" And Santa gave her a candy cane! She was very excited!
On Monday I was sick so I took a day at home. Nothing too interesting happened, though Brooke and I did watch a Christmas show. We watched Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas, which was one of my favorites from when I was a kid.
Oh my goodness do we have so many videos this week. I may have stuck these between pictures that end up putting them on the wrong day, but none of them are really related to anything else. Just some great glimpses into our lives right now. Winry has started learning to wave! I think she's gotten slightly confused though, because now she waves bye when she wants more to eat!
Um... this next one I don't know the story because I was at work. But... Brooke is a bag? I'm not sure there's anything I can say to enhance that.
On Tuesday night the young men were doing a game night, so I got invited back to mutual to supply the games. It was fun to be back with the kids, and everyone had a great time playing! I didn't bring anything that could play 13, so half played Tsuro, and half played King of Tokyo.
On Wednesday night I had a game night with some of my friends in the ward and we finally finished our legacy game we were playing, Charterstone. A legacy game is a game you play several times, and each time to play you make changes to the board/cards/etc that affect the game forever after. We've been playing this game for about 8 months and finally fnished! Better yet, I won!! So then everyone had to call me King (but they didn't... :( ).
Winry continues to crawl around and get into everything. If she isn't lifting up the air vents and trying to get in there she's playing with the tree. This past week she learned if you shake it long enough something will fall off... Sigh, that little trouble maker! She makes a good tag team partner for Jelly though.
Winry's other favorite game is to pull the curtain over her face. She's really not in that for the peek a boo. We'll just be cooking or washing dishes or something and look over and there's Winry next to the door with the curtain over her head! What a crazy!
Also, this past week Monica made a double batch of caramels!! I'll let her add her own comments if she'd like to say more...(I don't know what went wrong! I'm going to try again this week :( )
Winry has lately started to love looking at us through her plate once she finishes eating! In other news she's also started doing a great job feeding herself, and prefers to feed herself now. She'll even get mad at us sometimes if we try to give her food. She's growing up so much right now!!
Also, Winry has started to stand and walk along objects. And whenever Winry does a new thing or something she's just learning she gets so incredibly happy! We are so blessed to have such cute and wonderful kids!! Also, I am so glad they are such great friends. Winry will follow Brooke all around the house, and Brooke loves to get down and crawl to and around Winry, which makes them both laugh! I hope they continue to best friends for a long time to come.
Saturday was crazy! So first off Winry woke up at like 4 in the morning. I stayed up with her and Monica put her down for her first nap at about 6:30 when Brooke woke up. I fell back asleep on the couch and woke up at 8 just in time to get ready and go help with a move. After I got back from the move Monica went to yoga at the rec center, and I got the kids ready so we could all meet her there after to go swimming! I think this is the best picture of us there.
Here's another one of Winry since she was a little cut out of the last one. Winry loves the water. She had so much fun splashing, and loved when we swam her around in the lazy river! Brooke also had a blast wearing her floaties and going down the slide. She also swam around the lazy river mostly on her own! It was great family time.
Shortly after we got home, the missionaries came by for our weekly meeting, and then after they left I had to bustle down to the treadmill to get a run in. I cut the run a little short so that Brooke and I could get my hair cut and have time to go see some reindeer before the ward Christmas party! An outdoors store nearby had a special event with reindeer on Saturday. Brooke loved it!! She got to see "two Svens, and they were tired from traveling from the north pole!"
Meanwhile at home Winry got her bowl of yogurt and went to town while Monica was trying to do a few dishes. One step forward, one messy child back...
At the Christmas party the kids got to see Santa and have dinner. We didn't stay too long because that night was also my work Christmas party. Once the kids had eaten, we headed back home to put them to bed and Monica went and got our babysitter. My work Christmas party was up at the Bronco's stadium again this year. The party was a lot of fun, and they had their photo booths again. The first picture we took was in a weird mode and was actually a short video, and we didn't know and thought it would be a picture, so I'm not going to include our normal one because we're both just standing there smiling, moving a little... Instead you get this one!!
Winry seems like she's discovering her tongue! She's just sticking it out all the time and waggling it around. It's really cute. We think it may be related to getting another tooth, but I guess we'll have to wait a week or two to find out.
Today I started working on memorizing the Living Christ. I read it a few times recently and it just really stuck with me. Our stake president challenged us to memorize it a while back, so I got started today. I'm not far yet, and not actually sure if I remember everything I "memorized" this morning, but I definitely felt good working on it. I encourage everyone to read the Living Christ. It is an amazing testimony of Jesus Christ, of His divinity, and of His atoning sacrifice. I am so grateful for my Savior. I m grateful that I can repent, change, and work harder every day. I am grateful for the hope that the Atonement brings to our lives. I love our Savior. In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.
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