Steph's Stories: April 2015

Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Block Nativity Set

Monday, December 8

I made this nativity set last year for the kids to play with. MJ and Kay have been having a lot of fun this year playing with it in front of our fireplace!

Saturday, December 6

I was able to perform with Sounds of the Season again this year. And again there was a conflict with M&M's district honor band so she decided not to participate with Sounds of the Season this year - and I missed her concert once again. We had a 2:00 matinee performance and then a 7:30 evening performance which DH and the kids came to.

I uploaded this picture and thought, wait, is this picture from the wrong year because it looks like M&M is in the picture. After looking at it a little closer I realized that it is not M&M, it is one of the violin players!

A picture with my mom in it.

A picture with my dad in it.

Kay and MJ had their picture taken with Santa.

Lights on the house

Saturday, December 6

DH had put most of the lights up the week before but then we wanted to add the icicle lights. Here are a few pictures of DH, Luke and M&M on the roof - Luke was pretty scared up there (and I had tried going up the week before and was pretty scared myself). The previous owners had left their Christmas lights because they were cut to length for the house. We didn't like the fact that they were only white and red bulbs though so we bought some green and blue ones to add to the strings. We're not quite sure if we put them up correctly but they didn't look too bad.

Christmas wreath

Thursday, December 4, 2015

I decided to try my hand at making a Christmas wreath for the front door this year. I think it turned out pretty good.

Kay helped me!

Christmas downtown!

Wednesday, December 3

We had some unseasonably warm weather before Christmas so we decided to take advantage of it early in the Christmas season and take the family downtown to see the lights on Temple Square. DH had to go downtown for a meeting so we met up with him after the kids got home from school.

They have a new display at one of the visitor's centers that is a miniature version of the Salt Lake Temple inside and out. It was pretty neat to look at!