A Taste of Christmas

This is what we do for Christmas. It is a tradition that Brian's dad taught us the Christmas before he passed away. And he got it from his mother whose funeral we will be attending tomorrow. Mine still aren't as pretty as Ron's were, but they are just as tasty. This year we had the privilege of the Arizona cousins coming to help. Thanks guys.

Included in this year's candy making:

• Penuche
• Fondant fudge
• Orange flavored fondant dipped in dark chocolate
• Cherry cordials dipped in milk chocolate
• Cherry cordials (without the cherries...blech) also dipped in milk chocolate
• Vanilla fondant dipped in milk chocolate
• Chocolate truffles

Yummy!

Great Grandma

Last night, Brian's grandma passed away peacefully at the age of 93. She will be missed.
We love you Grandma.
18 Oct 1917-17 Dec 2010

A Long, LONG night.

When we got to Salt Lake on Friday night, Zak complained about his arm hurting. I knew that he had a spot (from a virus he has called molescum) under his arm that was a little red and swollen, but I had no idea how bad it was until now. So on the way home, we decided that it would be best to take him to the doctor to have it looked at. And since we were there and paying a co-pay, I asked if they would take care of the wart on his foot too.

Little did we know what we were in for. Apparently the doctor had another patient that she was communicating with Primary Childrens to make sure she did all the right things. We finally got in to see the doctor an hour after Zak's appointment time, and then Primary Childrens called and it was another hour before we saw her again. By the time she got to Zak it was 11:30. (Amber and Les were waiting in the waiting room too.) After she looked at his arm, she decided that it would be best to lance the spot and squeeze the infection out, and she said that the wart was so big that she was going to have to cut the top part that was dead off before she could freeze it.

Zak is such a brave kid. He laid on the table as if nothing was going on and let her do what she needed to do. She had to cut into the infection two different times, but he said it felt so much better to have all of that out, that it was OK. She was able to squeeze at least a dime size pocket of infection out, and said that there was a lot more, but it would involve too much cutting and that she would have to cauterize it if she did any more. So she bandaged it up and gave him an antibiotic and moved to his foot.

Again he laid there very brave and let her take care of his wart. He said it hurt a little bit, but not too bad.

Anyway, after leaving the doctor at 12:20, finding a pharmacy and waiting for his prescription to be filled, and driving the rest of the way home, we finally arrived home at 1:00 in the morning. It was a very long night.

Lights in Salt Lake

Friday night we decided to go to Salt Lake to see the lights on Temple Square. It was warmer than it has been, and so we thought we better do it before it was too cold or the roads were bad.

As always, it was beautiful. I always enjoy just taking our time to see the lights and enjoy the music and crowds (but we always try to go on a night that the crowds won't be too terrible!)

We love the luminaries that are around the Church Office Building. They are always fun to look at and see the different depictions of our Savior's birth. And then the fun of the night began after we left Temple Square (dun, dun, dun!)

Santa Run

This year for Thanksgiving weekend, we helped with the Santa Run 5K in Ogden. We were at one of the aid stations.But instead of water and Gatorade, they had cookies and milk. It was lots of fun to watch and to help with.
This is one of our friends that did the race. It was only his 2nd 5K. And even the Grinch did the race! Zak had fun giving out cookies to J.R. After the race, we stuck around for the Ogden Christmas parade.

Thanksgiving

We spent Thanksgiving this year with my family. The kids all got an assignment from Mom of something that they had to help make for dinner.

Zak made chocolate pudding to fill the pie crust that Mom had left when she was done making the real pies. And Les had to whip cream to make marshmallow fruit salad.

And Amber helped with several things including making the rolls. It was a wonderful day and a great dinner!

Thanks for having us Mom & Dad.