Wow December

Super late, but here's a few December highlights. The month started off with a great culture night about Ukraine. We love doing culture nights! If you have lived somewhere fun, please let us know and we would love to have you come over for a culture night.

Savannah had a successful dentist appointment...until the end. He wanted us to make an appointment to have him pull out her front baby tooth that just wasn't coming out, even though the adult tooth behind it was almost all the way in. I didn't think she would even sit in the chair for him to pull it out, so I suggested that we just "work on it" for a couple weeks. And it successfully came out! And just so you know...the Tooth Fairy doesn't work on Christmas Eve, but Santa delivers the quarters for her, since he is already going out.

We took lots of outings: Gardener Village to see the Elves, temple square (Savannah's favorite), a trip to see the Reindeer, and a visit to the Train Shoppe in Salt Lake.

We also did a successful meal at the Ronald McDonald house. We love going there! Let us know if you would like to join in sometime! We like to go fairly often. This year Savannah made little candy cane reindeer to give to all the kids, too.

We also had fun making lots of crafts like wreaths, ornaments from red and white mints, and ginger bread houses.

And we had lots of time with visiting family from out of town, and it was great to see everyone.

Some of our favorite times at Christmas were putting on a nativity, watching polar express and drinking hot chocolate, and having a super lazy fun Christmas day to just play at home!

We really enjoyed the time Todd had off from work. We visited the Norman Rockwell exhibit at the BYU art museum (Savannah wanted to wear our new family shirts that Todd made for us for Christmas), got Savannah a new fish (Santa brought her a better fish tank than Swimmy had), and of course enjoyed lots of yummy food!