{more joy} We love December!

Having kids in your house adds an exciting dimension to the Christmas Season. My kids are so excited for Christmas and Lulu and Buddy have been doing some really fun Christmas activities in school. We have our gingerbread house (see below), advent nativity getting larger, advent chains getting smaller, gifts bought and wrapped and excitement all around. They are also trying really hard to be good in case an elf is watching.
If you were an elf, and you saw this face, wouldn't you immediately check "NICE"?This is Squiggle thinking she is quite hilarious. She really thinks she is a clown. I realized while scrapping this LO that many cute pics of Squiggle are taken while is in her chair. Why? Because that is the only time she is still! I have many other pics of her that are just a blur of color.

Back to the subject at hand--December. We went to watch Snow College (GO BADGERS!) in their national championship game. It was at the new Rio Tinto stadium and my parents were going to watch the quarterback as he was in their mission, so we decided to go as a family (minus Squiggle). We had a fun time watching football, removing our coats, and cheering on the badgers. We were sad they made a fourth quarter comeback only to lose in double overtime, but we are still true blue badgers. Just as a side note, they honored the '80 football team during halftime this year, and I'm pretty sure they are going to honor the '95-'96 pep band next year--stay tuned!
We also saw the Jolly Elf himself this month. He made an appearance at our ward party and everyone sat on his lap and asked for the appropriate gift--I'm just not sure about having a lacey RS tablecloth in the background of Santa pics. Is this odd to anyone else?

We also visited the Elf's, played in the snow, built a snowman, decorated our house for Christmas, had my dad's family Christmas party, and sang many Christmas songs. Now school is over and the real stress--I mean fun begins! Hope your December has been holly jolly as well!

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(I promise we kept putting Squiggle's hood on, and she kept taking it off!)