Ward Christmas Party

So we were head out of town for Utah this weekend to go visit some friends, go to Temple Square to see all the lights, go visit Santa, etc, when all of a sudden Maddie gets sick all over herself and her carseat. It's just too much to try to clean up in the car on the side of the road, so we reluctantly head back home to clean her up and decide to stay home. Luckily we were just leaving town and weren't out in the middle of nowhere, so that was a blessing. But it was good in a way though, because it started snowing shortly after we left, and it hasn't really stopped since. It's really slick out there, and the road have been really bad. I think if we had gone down to Utah we wouldn't have made it back. So it was a blessing in disguise. Maddie has been perfectly fine since then.

Since we were in town, we got to go to our church Christmas party Saturday night. The Christams party had a theme this year: "Back to Bethlehem." So everyone (if they wanted to) dressed up in Bethlehem-type attire, we had food, we did activities with the kids, and we did other things that would have been done back then. There was a little nativity scene (which reminded me of when Maddie was Baby Jesus just a year ago!), songs were sung, etc. It was a lot of fun, and Parker even had fun dressing up (he thought it was Halloween again :-) ). A friend of mine talked me and some other friends in to doing a Jewish-type dance for it. Now everyone who knows me knows that I don't dance usually, but I actually did pretty good and had fun doing it. Here's a few pictures from the party.

Our family in Jersalem attire: Nicole, Parker (almost 3), Maddie (14 mo), & Ben

Parker & Maddie waiting for the activities to begin

Me and Maddie at the party

Parker making his own ancient history writings

Me dancing

And here's a not-so-good picture of Maddie (when she's crying obviously), but it shows her three little teeth that are starting to pop out