what's going on around here

For our Christmas present to eachother, Todd and I are getting the house all clean and fixing up all the broken things that have been needing to be fixed this week. Today the kids and I cleaned out the car, and now it's 4pm. Oh my goodness.

The boys got out some hangers and played with them for about 2 or 3 days. Alex said he wanted an orange hanger for Christmas. They are so creative. They made roller coasters, pretended they were swords, etc. I think we should get rid of all our toys, they don't even play with them.
All they need is their imaginations, and of course a computer to play video games.

Last week Todd and I took the boys to "A Christmas Carol" at the Hale Center theater. That is my favorite one--I love it. We go about every year. This past Sat. Alex and I went on a "date" to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir Christmas concert. Alex likes music like I do, so I thought he would like it. They only let kids 8 and up go, but I figured he's close enough. Walking from our parking lot to the building, Alex kept throwing snowballs at me:). On the way back to the car, we built a snowman. Then we went to Village Inn and got pancakes and hot chocolate. We had a really great time and he said he wanted to go again next year.

Yesterday night the family decorated stockings. I helped Katherine: I just put a blob of glue and she put a pom pom on it. I think she might have eaten one or two. We joked that she was going to get cancer. Then I put glitter glue on her finger so she could rub it on the stocking. She liked it. I'd take pictures but our camera won't work with our computer for some reason right now. Alex did the angel coming to the shepherds with Bethlehem in the background and Nathan did some abstract art.

Well, I better keep cleaning (and change Katherine's stinky diaper...again).