Our Christmas season officially starts when we put up our Christmas tree right after American Thanksgiving, even though we don't officially celebrate American Thanksgiving.
All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth...
Next, we celebrate Austin's birthday! We went to Tony Roma's to celebrate his birthday dinner. Carly and I had wrapped his birthday presents, and then she put them all in a gift bag to carry into the restaurant. She kept asking if it was time to open presents. So after we placed our orders, it was time. So she handed each gift to Austin and said, "Here is your wallet. Here is your shirt. Here is your tie." We had a good laugh. We love Austin!!
Jill played in her first band concert. ( I didn't even get a picture.)
Hanna sang in her elementary choir concert. It is one of my favorite events of the year.
We went to do our Christmas country visiting teaching, and we had gotten about 6 inches of snow the night before. It was my turn to drive, so I drove my new Yukon. We made it to the first two houses with no problem. We were talking about how nice it was to have 4-wheel drive as we drove to the last house. I wasn't going fast enough to make it up her hill, so I decided to back up and get a run at it. Well, I didn't back up straight and got off the road. To make the story shorter, I ended up with one wheel in the ditch. We were really stuck. So we walked up the hill and did our visit. Right as we were going to head back out to try and get out, the bishop rang the doorbell. He was driving past and came to see if we need help. Thank goodness. So he hooked his truck up to my car and pulled us out. Luckily the story has a happy ending, but I sure felt stupid.
Jill had a basketball tournament in Barnwell. Her team won the tournament. Way to go girls!
Today is my 36th birthday. It is off to a great start. I went running this morning. Then Austin made a delicious breakfast and put up decorations. I already have 30 happy birthday posts on Facebook ( I love that). My visiting teachers came, and I am headed to meet my friends for lunch. Then Jill has a basketball game and we have Austin's junior high dinner party tonight.
This is the stocking I came home from the hospital in on Christmas Eve. 
Merry Christmas in 5 more days!!!
