The last few weeks have been crazy. The girls and I have all taken turns being sick and this junk just keeps hanging on. Among all this sickness, we've had lots of parties. Ben took the girls to the ward Christmas party where they performed a little nativity play. Addy was a shepherd and Sydnee was an angel. I stayed home with Maren who was sick and forgot to send the camera with Ben, oh well. The next day was the Carter family party. Ben stayed home and I took the kids. We had a yummy breakfast, games and lots of fun with cousins. Addy made friends with all of her cousins whom she sees once a year. She even learned that her cousin Tea goes to the same school and they are both in first grade(what a coincidence, I've only told her this a few times). The party closed with a visit from Santa Clause who brought gifts to all of the children. I love this Santa. His father in law was the Santa that came every year to the party while I was a child. Every year he came and he knew our names and all about each of us. He even remembered things that had happened the previous years. Our past Santa passed away a few years ago and left the outfit, bells and Rudolph puppet to his son in law who took over the business. Our current Santa is just as good as our past Santa. He remembers what the kids did last year and teases everyone, including the adults. It's great to have such fun memories and to see the same Santa every year. It's also fun to see my kids playing and having fun with their cousins. It doesn't seem like it was that long ago that it was me playing with my cousins, and now our children play together. Sigh, I'm feeling old.
Our next party was Ben's company party. It was held at La Caille this year. This is not one of my favorite parties. La Caille is a very fancy french restaurant with fancy food and such. I'll just say that it wasn't a very fun evening and leave it at that.
Yesterday I was able to go to my Snow college "roommate" party. These girls weren't actually my roommates, but they let me practically live at their apartment and treated me like a roommate. I love these ladies, we have been friends for 13 years now. We went from crazy single girls living the college experience to grownups with children in the last 13 years. We met at my friend Maggon's house and after a little snow trouble, we had lunch. After lunch we shared our favorite recipes, books we've read and other favorite gifts. It was so much fun visiting and catching up, we should get together more than once a year. I am so grateful for friends and family to celebrate this season with.
