On the twentieth day of Christmas . . .

. . . the 'tute was the place to be to celebrate Christmas with the extended family. Even though it didn't work to get the bowl game to show on the big screen, it was great to see everyone! The winner of the Dunford Roots fantasy football leage was announced -- Brad in Ohio. So Aunt Barbara accepted the trophy in his behalf. It's a beauty. It was fun for me to have the four grandkids together. They had lots of fun playing with each other and all of the other cousins. We missed those who couldn't be there this year.

On the nineteenth day of Christmas . . .

. . . we were supposed to go to the institute council party in Provo but it snowed & blew & snowed so we stayed home and had our own party with Jeremy & Jamie and Chris & Melissa and the kids. My favorite kind of party!

On the eighteenth day of Christmas . . .

. . . the secretaries trapsed through the snow for our yearly Christmas card picture -- a truckload of angels. I am so blessed to work with such great ladies.

On the seventeenth day of Christmas . . .

. . . the faculty & staff had their annual Christmas lunch and . . .

the always hilarious white elephant exchange.

Kathleen ended up with a beautiful Santa Claus hat and scarf.

The funny thing is that the beautiful pink scarf is monogrammed "Larry".

The Simpsons dolls were a hot item, as was the string of lights with

major award leg lamps from "The Christmas Story".
Bro. Elzey ended up with a bag of goldfish. Unfortunately he used a
knife to open the box and punctured the bag.

This party is always one of the funniest two hours of the whole year.

We laugh so much that our smile muscles are always sore

when the party is over.
Lots of fun!

On the sixteenth day of Christmas . . .

. . . Janene Wolsey Baadsgaard, the author of hundreds of newspaper columns and features, magazine articles and over a dozen books, spoke to the secretaries of the seminaries & institute from Orem to Nephi at our monthly inservice meeting. So good!

And congratulations to Barbara on her new granddaughter, Allison, born today to Diane and Brian. Yea!

The fifteenth day of Christmas . . .

. . . was picture day for Mya. She put up quite a fight . . . . . . but finally her beautiful dress was on. She looked so cute and posed for some really cute pictures.

Guess who we ran in to walking the mall.

Even Santa has to take breaks now and then.

But when he went back to his seat, Thomas wanted to

sit on his lap and tell him what he wants.

But, hey, that Santa was pretty smart.

He told Thomas that toy wasn't on his list before! He was right!

After talking to Santa, Thomas said that this was his best day ever!

Then it was the "sisters' lunch" at our usual spot, Brick Oven. It was so fun.

On the fourteenth day of Christmas . . .

. . . family dinner at Lori's. Yummmm.