December 2007 Happenings

I'm still playing catch up on my blog! I am determined to one day post an event within the actual day of the event happening! But for the meantime- here is crazy December! (Now remember, this is a long post- so I am sorry for those of you who do not like all this reading and stuff, aka, Linds, but I am not posting this for you, this is a journal of my family, please bear with me!)
Remember these girls? Some of my gal pals and I were able to get away long enough to have lunch together. From left to right, Dawn Rogers Mattison, Mistie Davis Rash, Stacy Malone Tanner, myself, Mindy Bailey Thompson. Kim Krummenacher Huber and Heidi Reheis Baker joined us as well, I forgot to take the picture before they left. I love these gals and love that even though we don't see each other much, it is like no time has passed when we do get together. This year is our 20 year reunion! We are seriously not that old- right?!

2nd Annual Gingerbread House Decorating Night

The Cummard's hosted our 2nd Annual Gingerbread House Decorating Night. We are getting smarter each year we do it! Last year we thought it would be so easy to just buy the Costco kit- NIGHTMARE! The glue/frosting wouldn't harden fast enough for them and so decorating your house as it was falling apart was not so much fun. So, Syd, Cheryl, and Summer Cummard all stayed up the night before and put enough houses together with graham crackers and glue/ frosting- it took the 3 of them a few hours! But on Monday night when we all arrived, the houses were cemented together so well we begun decorating. My kids loved it! Who am I kidding- I loved it! Here are some photos of the evening.....

You think we might be in trouble with these girls??
Hilary and AshleySweet Sally!

Alice- bottle breakThe next generation of trouble??Grace was so proud!Chamberlin boys weren't missing this for anything!Grandpa was trying to take credit for the fine work Macy did on her g-house.

And the final result- aren't they cool!

The evening couldn't end without a little Guitar Hero!

...and a sister's picture.

1st Annual Sister's Weekend

This is the only photo I took of the weekend- I think I was having such a good time I just forgot about getting out the camera! This photo was taken at LGO after we had eaten 5 pizzas and had moved on to Gelato. Another man and his son were enjoying Gelato as well and so we asked him to take our photo. He proceeded to tell us that the funny thing was that he was a professional photographer charging something like $30,000 a day/ hour? I don't remember, you'd think if he was such a professional, he would have told me to get more in the picture like the rest of the gals- I look like I was trying to hide or something- oh well- I just thought that was funny!

My favorite thing, well 2 favorite things was having all the sister's there- especially Niki and Melissa. I feel like calling them my sis-in-laws doesn't even give them justice for how I feel about them. I feel like they are my true sisters and the weekend was so perfect with the two of them there. My brothers could not have married more beautiful women, both inside and out. It's funny, I grew up being a Worthen, but they will bear that name for the rest of their lives, and they do it well! The second thing was sharing a favorite gift. We all brought 8 items of our favorite thing to share with each other. It was so fun to share and receive and see what everyone came up with. I truly love each of you and can't wait until next year's get-away!

Worthen Family Nativity Night

Again, the Cummard's hosted the evening! We ate first, hoping the kids might get some of their energy used up before starting Nativity.And boy did we eat... lobster!The kids loved the live lobsters, I personally had David's yummy chicken.We decorated the tables with our latest Last Chance find (from the Girls Weekend).
Chargers for $1.00. Don't they look so cute under the red plates??

And then it was on to Nativity...Macy was MaryKaitlyn was a shepherdBrig was a wise manand Brody was a sheep!


Here are some of the most inspiring scenes you have ever seen in a Nativity show...
(you may want to get the tissues now!)
The Heavenly Choir and Heavenly Media

Santa travels by helicopter??!!
A local business, Junky Trunk, sponsors this event each year and I never go. I decided I better go while the boys would love it! The helicopter circled around and around above us. When it landed all this dirt flew up in the air, so you couldn't even see. When we finally could see- there he was!The kids were just standing there in amazement! Even the girls- they all loved it!

I don't know how, but out of all the hundreds and hundreds of kids that came to see Santa- guess who managed to sit on his lap FIRST??Bobo- way to go!

'Til We Meet Again...

This was a rough morning saying goodbye to Hilary as she departed on her mission. I didn't take many pictures because it was so early, and because I was crying so hard most of the time I couldn't focus.

I think Grace showed pretty much how all of us were feeling,
she was the only one brave enough to let it show!

Forgotten Carols
We went with quite a large group this year. Lonny and I are way in the back. The whole show was different, and we loved it! More characters, the usual beautiful music, it was a great night!

Ticket to Polar ExpressNot the "real" Polar Express, but even better was being invited to Quincy's Polar Express Birthday Party- Brody was so excited to go!

And then came Lola...
This was the kids 1st Christmas present to receive this year. She is a Chihuahua Toy. She is the newest member of our family and everyone of the kids loves her.
Even when they are asleep!

Foster Family Christmas Eve

Grandma Sue gave each of the kids 2 Webkins- they were so excited!

And, like Thanksgiving, I didn't take ANY photos of Christmas Day, they are all on video, which someday I will figure out how to add that to my blog.