Wii boxing anyone?

We had a lot of fun playing the wii and guitar hero with our friends. I was the boxing champion!

Christmas Holidays

We have been having so much fun in Salt Lake for the last few weeks. We have been busy with family and friend parties and get togethers! Here are some pictures from the last two weeks.

Pledge Class Christmas Party

Yankee Swap Party

Jackson and Nicole won the dress up contest!

Camilla and Jordan got married!


I turned 23
My cake was really really hard to cut, it was the combination of the regular cake and ice cream cake I think.

Fondue Night

The cheese fondue didn't melt quite as we expected
Good company and good conversation, what more could you ask for?
Jackson decided to shave his mustache and neck today in an attempt to channel Abe Lincoln, hopefully I can convince him to shave the rest before we fly home!

A new tradition

Today Jackson came home from school and said "Let's start a new Christmas tradition! So we did, we listened to Christmas music on the radio (we are still looking for our cds from the move) and we cut out paper snowflakes. It took us a couple of snowflakes before the 2nd grade skills started to kick in, but we had fun!

Creche

Tonight we went to the last Creche exhibit ever. It was amazing, Creche is Nativity in french ( I think ). This is the 25th year our ward has done this exhibit. They feature around 1000 different nativities from 111 different countries. We made a slideshow of our pictures (it is kind of a fast one). It really was awesome and I am sad they will not being doing it again but so glad I got to go at least once. One of my favorite creches was the french santon village one, it was amazing.
"A santon is a small hand-painted figurine cast in terracotta or a similar material that is used for building nativity scenes. Santons are a traditional product of the Provence region of southeastern France. A maker of santons is called a santonnier.
The word "santon" comes from the Provençal "santoun," or "little saint." They became popular during the French Revolution, when the churches were closed and the larger, traditional nativity scenes in churches prohibited. Smaller figurines began appearing in homes, and quickly gained popularity." (From wikipedia)

There was so much more behind the Santon Village nativities but I don't think I could summarize it all here. Anyway it was amazing.