Winter Swimming

Well, you can see how good I am at updating the blog when Gary is not out of town.

It's been nice to have Gary home the last few days. We've been busy, but we've had a lot of fun.

Saturday morning was our ward Christmas party. It was "Christmas Around the World". We had a Mexican casserole for breakfast, along with a variety of sweet breads.

Then, I helped out in the Australia/England room. While the cultures of the two countries are similar, there is one very big difference during Christmas. Weather. It is right in the middle of summer in Australia during Christmas. It was fun to see people's reactions to learn this. They also have their own "12 Days of Christmas" song, involving animals native to Australia. Australians also believe that Santa's reindeer take a break when they get to Australia. They are tired and definitely can't handle the heat. So, Santa's sled is pulled by six white kangaroos. In fact, they have a song called, "Six White Boomers" that all Aussies know. It was a lot of fun talking about Australia and their Christmas traditions.

Gary took the kids to the other rooms.

There was a Germany/Denmark room...I'm not exactly sure what they talked about in that room, but the kids said they enjoyed it.

And, of course, there was a room with Santa!!

Graysen wasn't even scared of Santa this year!!

Kyri and Gray have been waking up around 6am lately. Ugghh!!

So, needless to say, we had plenty of time before church at 11:00 on Sunday.

Graysen came running in and said, "I'n goeen simmeen wiff Tywee!!"

Hahaha!!

Then they changed swimsuits.

Apparently Gray thought Kyri's swim shirt were pants...

...and her swim skirt was a shirt?

Silly kids!!

Yesterday I took all 3 kids to ROSS to look around for a few things.

For the first time, Tanzi sat in the front of the shopping cart, out of her car seat.

She loved it!!

For dinner last night we went to Olive Garden for soup and salad.

Perfect for the snowy weather we are now experiencing.

Gary is now working from 1pm until 10pm.

We loved having him home all morning!

We are looking forward to a busy, fun couple of weeks before Christmas!

We (mostly me, probably) are SO excited!!