Jonathan accompanies the Bingham A'Cappella Choir at Candlelight

Night of all Nights

Today is a long one for him; Swim dryland work-out 6:00-7:00 am. School includes weights and a piano solo in seminary. Leaves for a meet at Skyline at 1:55 pm. Swims the 200 and 500 yard freestyle. Gets back to the school, hopefully by 5:15. Eats, dresses and back to Bingham for choir pictures and warm-up for the 2nd night of Candlelight by 6:00 pm. Last night lasted until after 9:00 pm. He won't have any trouble sleeping tonight!

Anticipation!!!

Tis the day before my kids start arriving and all through the house there's stockings and countdowns and work for my spouse.

The programs and shopping and planning are done, but the best part of Christmas has only begun. First Jason, Nicole and cute little Sydney, then James, Jenny, Dean and the next little Kendall, next Dan, Jessica, Sophie and feisty little Tessa, then the locals arrive and all will be gathered! You'll hear me exclaim as they all arrive; "Happy Christmas to all"! "And pass me the grandkids"!

Still pregnant!

Just in case you were wondering;
Meg's still pregnant! Its starting to look like she's going to have a basketball!

O Little Town of Bethlehem

Don't you love the decorated ladders?

A shower, great ward Christmas party and a fun Sunday!

I had Heather Bringhurst's shower here yesterday. So glad she's finally getting married! They have been dating for like 6 years!!

We had a great ward party last night! It was relaxing for me, but poor Jonathan had to wear a shepherd costume for the dinner and everything. He played this solo to start out the Christmas play...

He had to play the part of a shepherd, run over and accompany the rest of the shepherds for their number and then run back on stage until the 3 kings were ready to sing, and run back down to accompany them. He did a great job though! It was real fun cause Jack and Steph came and ate with us, too.

Richard spoke in church today. He did a great job. He spoke about the gifts of the spirit. One thing that I learned from his talk was that we have to ask for the gifts we want.

After fighting a sinus infection and not having a voice all week, it was great to be able to sing with the ward choir at the Stake Sing-Along tonight. I also got to do the music in Jr. Primary today! And of course sing with the nursery kids. Its nice to have my voice back. Well, 75% of it or so anyway. Hopefully it'll all be back for the Christmas program next Sunday! I only get to teach my nursery kids 2 more lessons! Then its on to Sunbeams for them!

Melt down

Just wanted to update the snow level situation here. Its getting warmer! Hoping to be able to walk around the block tomorrow without slipping on ice!

The Noorda shower

Meg's family gave her a shower! This is the bedding set she wanted!

Her sisters.

Her sister-in-law and a couple of cousins.

Her family gave her a bike trailer. I didn't get a very good picture of it, but its very nice! The Noordas are such fun people. I really enjoy being around them. She's at 35 weeks on Monday. That's when Josh was born.