December

Luke, Jacob, Jace

We began December going to the Draper park tree lighting event.  They have a big globe willow tree called the Tree of Life.  It is beautiful.  We asked the Andersons if they wanted to go with us.  

Jason, Jacob, Benji, Luke, Sherrie, Ollie, Lee

 That Friday, the 6th, Jason got tickets to the Grizzley's hocky game.  Ben/Elias, Tom/Jaxon, Jason/Jacob all went.  I called Natalie and we went to see the movie The Greatest Christmas Pageant Ever.  It was a really good movie.  Afterwards we went for dinner.

Saturday, the 7th, we had our ward Christmas party.  Jason and I were part of the committee.  It was all the "old timers" who were asked to help and with responsible people like that the party was easy to do. 

Each of us made 2 breakfast casseroles, they had fruit, donuts, chocolate milk and juice.  The Hillcrest choir came and performed and then Santa appeared.  

It was kind of simple and the turn out wasn't great, but you never know on numbers for this sort of thing.  

The Old Timers
David/Jessica Womeldorf, Jason/Me, Theresa/Leon
Winters, Lori/Burt Holt, Lauri/Tom English,
Pat/Melanie Messam, Todd/Brenda Combe, 
Mike/Sue McNall

Cory and Tori photo bombing us

December 12 Ben Ahyou took his clients to see A Christmas Carol at the Hale Center Theater.  All those plays are so well done!  Tori and Cory were there too.  

Paul and Chris Sorensen, Elroy Vogler, Tina 
Ackerman, Lori Harwood, Torie Potestio

On the 14th we had my annual friends Christmas party.  Steve Smith, Lorraine Vanderley, and Tobi Potestio were unable to come.  We had a fun time.

Lor, Tori, Sherey and Lloyd Jones,
Margaret Pearson

Clark White, Brad Jackman, Jason

Cari Bryant

Josh and family flew in on Saturday and Sunday we had a family dinner and bridal shower for Janette.  Jared Xia's family was there and it was fun to meet them.  

Irina gave them this wall hanging

Almost married!

             

On Monday night, the 16th, we went to Jacob's school Christmas performance.  They did a really good job and it was fun to hear them.

On Thursday, December 19, Jared and Janette got married in the Timpanogos temple.  It was a great day1

Wedding luncheon, Cassie and Frank Xia on
the right.

MarySue, Randy, Jason, Karen holding Marshall,
Jared, Stephanie, Juliette

Meilin, Hannah, Jenny, Jacob

Grace, Mylee, Robert, Lilly, Abby

Dancing after the reception

On Monday, the 23rd, I had breakfast with the Julies and Teresa.   It was really good to get together.

Christmas Eve we went to see the movie Wicked.  There has been so much hype about it....I liked it and thought it was very well done, but was not dying over it.  

After the movie we got Cafe Rio, as per our tradition, and had Shanae Richardson over for dinner with us.  Unfortunately we forgot to take a picture.

Christmas morning!

We opened stockings, water bottles, mechanics gloves, metallic bowls for nails and screws....

....fire starters and cake decorating items.

A treasure hunt to find Jacob's Wii he  had asked for.

Our Christmas haul

We had cinnamon rolls for breakfast and headed over to Randy and MarySue's for the rest of the day.

We visited, ate lunch, played and opened presents.  Once everyone was there it was crazy with 31 people. 

Jared, Janette, Me, Jacob, Jason, Karen, 
Stephanie, Jared, Rob, Randy holding Sam, 
Jenny, Juliette, Jacob, Abby,
Front: Lilly, Irina, Mylee, Marshall, Emma,
Daniel, Stephen, MarySue, Hannah, Grace,
Sage (Dan's girlfriend), Sophie (Sage's twin), 
Sarah, Henry (Sarah's boyfriend). 

Jacob counting his money from selling old phones, 
and Christmas.

On Thursday night, the 26th, Jason began sneezing a TON!  We wondered if he was allergic to something we had brought in.  Nope, Friday morning he didn't feel well and that night he had me take him to the ER for chest tightness.  

The ER was packed and we had to wait about an hour to get into a bed.  Luckily they did an X-ray and blood draw while we were waiting to be seen...this helped get things going once we got in the room.  They did 2 blood draws for a test that can determine if you were having a heart attach.  All was clear.  They also tested for Covid and Influenza A.  

Jason had influenza A and felt awful.  Luckily we went in early enough that he could get Tamiflu to help reduce the duration of feeling sick.  He has been quarantined in our room and I have slept on the couch.  

On December 30, we got together with the Catheys and Nefs while Nefs were in town.  We went over to the church, did dinner and played games.  Jason came over later with a mask to visit.  He was feeling better, but not completely well.  

For New Year's Eve the 3 of us had dinner and watched some shows.  At 10 p.m. I went to my bed on the couch in the living room.  Just too tired.  Jacob and Jason stayed up and watch the Fast and Furious.  

Another year over.  On to 2025!