December Family Home Evening

This last weekend part of my family drove down from Twin for a visit, and I got to take a turn and host family home evening this month. Everyone but Brad and Scott were planning on coming, but, sadly, sick kids and an ice storm prevented my two older brothers from coming. Tim and his family stayed the night for one night, and Becky, Kimball, Mom and Dad came down a few days later. I had been looking forward to this weekend for a month and cleaned and shopped for the occasion the day before so everything would be perfect for my family to feel comfortable staying in my home. With two brothers missing our plans sorta got canceled and we changed everything we were going to do Saturday.

For FHE we were going to walk around temple square to see the lights, but by the time we got out of the restaurant from dinner it was too late, super crowded, and freezing cold outside so we went to the visitor's center to have a lesson and feed the baby, but the building was packed full of people so we ended up leaving in search of a place to have ice cream, but that didn't happen either, lol. These pictures were taken while eating dinner.

 Becky and I were excited to go to the Christmas devotional in the conference center because we have never been in the conference center for conference, so this was our first time going. We got to the doors and waited in line to get in and were told that we had to go to the theater room with the baby, so we watched the devotional on a screen instead of live like we would've liked, but the messages were so good it didn't matter where we were to listen to them.

All of us girls except Mom bought at least one pair of shoes on our little outing on Saturday while the men stayed at the house to watch the kids. Hopefully the next family visit everyone will be able to come; I had a lot of fun making delicious meals for everyone and getting to show off my home and Christmas tree this year.