It’s Christmas Eve! Up early this morning (6:30 AM! Yikes)! Darn dog woke me up! I’ve been up finishing tags for our neighbor/friend gifts (white ceramic/snowflake containers filled with candy):
Wrapping is all done! Presents under the big tree:
All the kids presents under their tree:
And it looks like it may snow?
As soon as the kids wake up, we are going to go to the gym, and then come home to relax before going to Mass and to dinner at our friends’ house, with 4 other families. I hope you enjoy your day! MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Carl and I both took today off work to try and finish up our Christmas shopping. We spent about 3 hours shopping and then went to Judge Memorial to watch the Christmas assembly, since Tyson was a part of a few skits. Too, too funny! We loved it. Now I’m trying to finish up wrapping presents and getting neighbor gifts ready! I can’t believe Christmas is almost here! Crazy! A few photos from around our house:
My floating ornaments:
Coffee Mugs and Starbucks gift cards for Tyson college counselor and the teachers that wrote letters of recommendation for Tyson’s college applications:
My friend Betsy brought me this cute, tiny nativity set from her recent cruise to Mexico:
My Christmas Project from last year….copied from Ali Edwards
Wreaths on my bay windows in our kitchen:
I’ve had this Santa and Reindeer for soooo long! LOL!
Small tree in my kitchen window:
Our BIG tree:
The kids tree in the family room (kids presents are all wrapped in red/white wrapping paper – I’m weird!):
Would you believe that as of last Saturday, December 15th, I had not bought one gift! Yes, you read that right…..I HAD NOT BOUGHT ONE GIFT! LOL! Carl and I headed out to the mall (nightmare) on Saturday afternoon and put a good dent into the shopping list. Christmas shopping was a lot easier this year due to Madi’s great idea! She went online to all of her favorite stores and cut and pasted all the items she wanted….she put it all in a word document that we were able to print off and take to the stores with us. It was seriously so cool! And made shopping much easier! I can’t tell you what we bought (the kids read the blog), but I can give some hints! These are the stores we shopped at:
Just a quick photo share from the last home game of the season, which is also Senior Night. It was a nice night, and all the seniors got honored before the game and each Mom got a nice bouquet of Red/Gold roses/flowers. I look like a total nerd in the photo, but how cute is my boy? Ü
The Deseret News posted their All-State Football Team this morning, and I am PROUD to say Tyson was name to the First Team! Woo Hoo! We are so proud of you Tyson! Thanks for all of the awesome memories the last four years!
Judge Memorial Catholic High School is about 1 mile or so away from Rice-Eccles Stadium, on the campus of the University of Utah, where the 5A, 4A and 3A State Football games are being held. The Semi-Finals were also held at Rice-Eccles last week. Pretty much since the existance of Judge Memorial football, anytime they made it to Rice-Eccles to play in the Semi Finals or the Championship game, the WHOLE student body would walk TOGETHER to the stadium. This happened last Friday morning. I can’t tell you how absolutely cool this was to witness. 800+ students and faculty walking together in unity to watch their football team. I love it! The student body hasn’t made "THE WALK" since their last championship game appearance in 1993, so this was pretty anticipated. Here is a photo I snapped of Madi and her friends as they arrived at the stadium (along with a few more photos). Once again, students, teachers and fans will make "THE WALK" this Friday night! Go BULLDOGS!
Last night was the LAST team dinner for the football team………that I will be a part of. For the last four years, I have spent pretty much every Monday night in the Judge Memorial Catholic High School cafeteria, preparing and serving team dinner. As a parent of a football player, you are asked to volunteer to help with team dinner at least once during the season. Freshmen year, I was on "pick up carpool" duty for Tyson and his 2 friends, Jordan and Joe….so I usually stopped in to see if I could help at most all of the dinners. Sophomore year, I was asked to help out with table decorations, in addition to the dinners I volunteered for. Junior and Senior year, I was in charge of table decorations for all the dinners. I cannot tell you what a joy it is to volunteer for team dinners. The boys are fed the best food, and they are soooooo thankful and polite. Besides playing in the championship game this Friday night, I think being part of team dinners is one of my very best memories over the last 4 years of football. I have enjoyed every Monday night! Just an awesome experience. This year, we have had more team dinners than ever before, due to our success in the post season. We had our last team dinner last night, and the boys were lucky enough to have two former coaches of Judge Memorial Bulldogs speak to them. They have 6 championships between them, and they had some great words of wisdome for the boys. I am so proud to have been a part of this football program, and SO PROUD of these boys! Love them! This picture is of Tyson (middle) and his friends Joe (L) and Jordan (R). They have been playing football together since they were 8 years old! I can’t beleive we are here……..SENIOR YEAR, and playing for the state championship! What a ride!!! GO BULLDOGS! Bring it home! ****Oh, and part of the playoff tradition at Judge Memorial….NO SHAVING! LOL! Yikes!
