Christmas Food Court Flash Mob, Hallelujah Chorus - Must See!

This brought me to tears. AMAZING!

From Sand to Snow

We returned from a trip to St. George at 1am last night. Grandpa Bergin warned us about a storm that was coming, so we quickly packed and left at 9:15pm last night instead of driving home today. We woke up this morning to six inches of snow on the ground, so we're glad we left when we did.

While in St. George, we attended the live Nativity at Tuacahn that featured a real camel, horses, sheep, and goats. The kids loved it although the temperatures were frigid. We also toured Brigham Young's winter home and wondered why all the door knobs were so close to the ground. Apparently, almost everyone was 5 feet 6 inches or shorter back then. We also saw firsthand how fabric was woven from cotton that used to be grown in the area. Emma even picked some cotton from the plants growing on the grounds, although she got in trouble for it. Later, in Snow Canyon State Park, Emma picked an armful of what looked like wild rhubarb and asked if we could make a pie out of it. Dad quickly stowed the plants in the cooler hoping that no park ranger had seen what was likely an illegal harvest. We never made the pie and aren't even certain if the stuff was rhubarb.

In Snow Canyon, we took a short hike to a small slot canyon. Luke was tickled and thought the whole place was a giant sand box. Rachel drew pictures in the sand, and her impish giggles echoed up and down the canyon walls. Brooke and I marveled that such a beautiful place was so close to the road -- a perfect spot for our small children.

Halloween

Better late than never, right? Here are pics from our spooky, soggy night. It rained buckets here thus cutting our trick-or-treating short. Luckily, the kids had plenty of candy from trick-or-treating the day before at Dad's work. We were eager to go home, put on our warm PJ's, snuggle together and hand out candy. Something fun that we did BEFORE trick-or-treating that would make a great tradition: eating out at Wendy's with my grandparents. I'm so mad I didn't take a picture! We were all dressed up in our costumes, including me and Ben, and the comments and great looks from others in the restaurant really made it fun. They really should have given us free food for looking so darn good. :) And I didn't have to scramble to cook and clean up dinner so we could head out trick-or-treating! A win-win.

My little Jessie


My sweet princess


My ferocious lizard/dinosaur--what do you think it is??? This costume was borrowed from a good friend, because I ran out of steam to make a cowboy costume for Luke. I felt kinda bad about that, but he is only two and he didn't care a bit.


Family picture. Can you tell what Ben and I are?

(Salt and pepper)